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te-pu-si-ti · 6 months

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Punchdrunk as hypertext

I am in the greenhouse room, and I clutch at my heart. What I see before me is a person in black latex receiving a drug on their tongue like holy communion. There are only two characters in the room: Kampe, and their dealer. But what I experience is much greater, because I can hear the music echoing: the music signalling that on the other side of the city, a city has fallen and a princess is dead, hanging up above, bare-chested and bloodied for all to see.

I remember her. It was her birthday, we danced with her, she stumbled into the arms of her lover.

I know this from an hour ago, before time reset.

I am in the flower shop, and I gasp. A tango is playing through the tinny speaker of the radio. The shopkeeper picks up a bouquet - her bouquet - and he twirls around, holding it in his arms, dancing a tango with a prop that is the start of Persephone's story, to the music that is the near-climax of her story.

I know this from months before, because I have been here before but it was different. It's different every time. There's so much to take in, and I have to choose who I see and what I focus on, and the context I bring with me is constantly developing.

That's a familiar criticism. Too many choices, no coherent story.

But Pope (2009) isn't a criticism of a Punchdrunk masked show - it's a criticism of a HTML novella, These Waves of Girls, hypertext, a story that you wade into by clicking through links. A story that leads you down many different paths, depending on how you choose to follow them.

Don't worry if you get lost - you're already lost. Embrace your curiosity. Turn your fear into desire. Fortune favours the bold.

The link is the most important new form of punctuation since the comma... Links make manifest the way texts relate to other texts, the way they structure themselves, and the way they restructure our thinking.

A reference to another scene, a repeated movement hearkens back to something you witnessed minutes ago, hours ago, weeks ago. A prop moves across buildings, touched by many hands along the way. Characters intersect, and you take a different path, thrown into another story before you reunite for a finale.

You ever gone down a Wikipedia rabbit hole? Clicking link after link, opening up a dozen new tabs, somehow finding your way from Scooby-Doo to Leukemia to learning the Yupik word for bread?

Her Story is an FMV video game where you uncover the story by searching a database of video clips for keywords. As you search for clues, things that don't make sense stick in your mind, because they might be important later. A new piece of information can cast something you've already seen in a completely new light.

You can stay with one thread, or you can let your curiosity guide you, bouncing around from one storyline to the next. It might not make sense at first, seeing everything out of order - but then as you make sense of it, you will form those connections, perhaps even more strongly than you would have done if you had watched a linear story that you didn't have to work for.

...the spaces of reading and writing shift in a hypertextual environment and the reader is required to adopt a mode of engagement in terms of an unstable textual terrain, which involves them in productive and creative processes as well as receptive ones...

"Because everything is constructed, everything becomes significant, in the artistic context everything ordinary becomes extraordinary." - Sam Booth

Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse is a collection of digital and physical ephemera - notes, photos, lyrics, scribbles, all telling the story of this man you knew as Uncle Buddy, who has now died. You leaf through them, choosing what to pay attention to, taking away what you deem significant, building an image based on what he left behind.

It does have an option to spell out the answer to the riddle if you want to skip that, but the significance might be lost in the process. ...

Description of Tamara, an example of theatre dubbed 'hyperdrama', theatrical hypertext.

"Punchdrunk's Sleep No More is an astonishing production that does nearly everything I had imagined hyperdrama could achieve, and much that I had assumed it could not." ... "The experience works here, but it is going to be different for everyone. How many people get to see Mrs. DeWinter’s scene? Of those, how many are in the bar when the band strikes up Paper Moon ? How many get the Woyzeck allusion the next day, or ever? This is the nature of the medium."

Seriously, read this article by Mark Bernstein.

It’s not a game. Nothing you (or they) can do can prevent the fall of Troy or its terrible aftermath. Yet your choices (and chance) matter, and your reading of Those Trojan Girls is likely to differ from any other reading.

(hypertext is also, sadly, ephemeral, linked to its time and place. The above linked work is less than a decade old but I doubt I'd find what I need to read it, the right software and the right hardware of the right version with all the right features. Digital rot everywhere. Who has a floppy drive anymore? Who has Flash anymore? Just like nobody will experience The Burnt City anymore. Just like, soon, nobody will experience the McKittrick Hotel anymore.)

My first show: I see a man swinging upside down, hanging from the ceiling. The image haunts me. I do not know him, nor do I know the two onlookers. But it stays with me.

Many months later, I see him again, and he is an old friend - his name is Laocoön, a seer, and he is burdened with a prophecy from Apollo. Cassandra looks on, distraught, while the vengeful god puppets him. He is showing her the fate of her sister.

I remember her. It was her birthday. We danced with her. I watched her die, over and over and over. I remember every moment, every branching path, every intersection, and she isn't here, but she's all around us.

"There is no longer one author but two, as reader joins the author in the making of the text" - Jay David Bolter, "Literature in the Electronic Writing Space" "Go back into the light. Remember what you've seen... We love you so deeply. It's nothing without you." - Lily Jo Ockwell as Persephone, September 24, 2023

Lily photo by @rhianbwatts

#punchdrunk #sleep no more #the burnt city #the drowned man #hypertext #hypermedia #interactive fiction #twine interactive fiction #ergodic literature #cybertext #immersive theatre

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theartraveller · 23 days

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ZOOVEILLANCE

The New Media Gallery New Westminster Canada, February 18 – May 5, 2024 Image Credit: Installation view of The Substitute in ‘The Lost Rhino’ at Natural History Museum, 2022. © Trustees of the Natural History Museum London I was lucky enough to make a short trip to British Columbia in March, where I caught a fantastic exhibition at my favourite Canadian gallery, the New Media Gallery, situated…

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#Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg #art #BF Skinner #Canada #conditioned response #exhibition #hypermedia #installation #latest #marco balotti #matt collishaw #mediaart #new westminster #the new media gallery #travel

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crudely-drawn-ben · 3 months

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Antonymph

Next time you're at a computer take a look at this in your browser: https://lyra.horse/antonymph/ I cannot overstate the sheer incredible artistry on display here. I saw someone say it was the most original use of the internet they'd seen since Homestuck and that might just be right. A hypermedia masterpiece, demoscene programming for the browser era. This technology is my bread and butter and this? This is a gateau.

#hypermedia #pop ups #old web #web technologies #pony pop #mlp music

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thursdayisbetterthanfriday · 4 months

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Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

Ted Nelson, information technology pioneer, philosopher, and sociologist talking about his way of considering reality and the original role of copy and paste on the internet. Director: Werner Herzog Release: 2016 Distributor: Magnolia Pictures

#werner herzog #Lo and Behold #Reveries of the Connected World #internet history #Ted Nelson #hypertext #hypermedia #Youtube

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belascoainyneptuno · 11 months

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3 preguntas de Jorge de Armas

Alexis Romay, en la exposición personal de Jairo Alfonso (febrero de 2023) Les dejo esta entrevista que me hizo Jorge de Armas y publica Hypermedia, en donde hablo de “Diversionismo ideológico” —esta columna semanal— y exploro mi obsesión con Cuba, las décimas y otros dolores y placeres crónicos. Concluye con mi lectura de un texto inusual: una retahíla de 160 octosílabos que no riman. Que no…

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#El punto cubano #Hypermedia #Hypermedia Magazine #Jorge de Armas #Legna Rodríguez Iglesias #Palmas y cañas

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therebelliouspiscean · 2 years

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What You Need to Know About Hyperlexia & Air Writing | And Next Comes L - Hyperlexia Resources

#hypermedia #autism #air writing #resources

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anthyies · 7 months

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computer that hates you call that HATEOAS

#esha.txt #Ok the joke is I learnt about rest apis today and that’s a real acronym that stands for #Hypermedia as the engine of application state (No i don’t know why they decided to include every word in the acronym)#and I misread it as HATEOS like. Hate operating system at first.#Ok that concludes Bad cs jokes with esha

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taxi-davis · 1 year

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#HyperMedia ~P☯P~#회사AUTO #☒METALEVEL☒#music #audio #vaporwave

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haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll · 7 days

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Tracklist:

take me the dance floor • Hypermedia Selector • Roll you up • Twilight NU ZONE • seven force • SUNDAY EVERYDAY • D.G.R. • keep on dancing (hard hard hard) • Dangerous • Final Rave • KAWASAKI IMPACT (THE FACTORY IS BURNING) • Reloaded World • Baby into the RAVE • faminator • EXCITING HYPER NIGHT • Yellow Warriors (360000 Death) • S.D.I -Shousei Dust Identity- • Hold U Now (Pornstar's Hardcore Remix)

Bandcamp ♪ YouTube (sample showcase only)

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stevebattle · 11 months

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LEGO Ping-Pong Ball Collecting Robot by Fred Martin and Brian Silverman (1995), MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA. “There is a real need for better resources for both fledgling and intermediate LEGO builders. The plans that the LEGO company distributes with its kits are very good at showing how to build specific models, but not so good at teaching how to design from one’s own ideas. At the MIT Media Laboratory, we’re working on a project we call the LEGO Constructopedia, a hypermedia resource for LEGO designers that will include LEGO building plans, design principles, textual descriptions, and rendered animations, all interlinked, indexed, and browsable. … The robot, a ping-pong ball collector, was designed by the author and Brian Silverman. Sitting on top of it is the Programmable Brick, a robotics controller for kids recently developed by the author and his colleagues at the MIT Media Laboratory.” – Fred G. Martin, The Art of Lego Design, The Robotics Practitioner: The Journal for Robot Builders, vol.1, no.2, Spring 1995.

#cybernetics #robot #design #1995 #MIT

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caprice-nisei-enjoyer · 6 months

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JSON taking over as the response format should have been a strong hint as well: JSON is obviously not a hypertext. You can impose hypermedia controls on top of it, but it isn’t natural. XML at least looked like HTML, kinda, so it was plausible that you could create a hypermedia with it.

Okay, sure, JSON is not a hypertext. But... what if it could be?

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adafruit · 1 year

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Apple HyperCard (1987) with Computer Chronicles clip featuring the creator, Bill Atkinson from Apple

Wikipedia -

HyperCard is a software application and development kit for Apple Macintosh and Apple IIGS computers. It is among the first successful hypermedia systems predating the World Wide Web. HyperCard combines a flat-file database with a graphical, flexible, user-modifiable interface.

HyperCard combines a flat-file database with a graphical, flexible, user-modifiable interface. HyperCard includes a built-in programming language called HyperTalk for manipulating data and the user interface.

This combination of features – a database with simple form layout, flexible support for graphics, and ease of programming – suits HyperCard for many different projects such as rapid application development of applications and databases, interactive applications with no database requirements, command and control systems, and many examples in the demoscene.

HyperCard was originally released in 1987 for $49.95 and was then included for free with all new Macs sold. It was withdrawn from sale in March 2004, having received its final update in 1998 upon the return of Steve Jobs to Apple. HyperCard runs in the Classic Environment, but was not ported to Mac OS X.

HyperCard influenced the development of the Web in late 1990 through its influence on Robert Cailliau, who assisted in developing Tim Berners-Lee’s first Web browser. Javascript was inspired by HyperTalk.

Video and more An introduction to Apple's Hypercard. Guests include Apple Fellow and Hypercard creator Bill Atkinson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FquNpWdf9vg https://blog.adafruit.com/2014/06/18/hypercard/

Apple Fellow and Hypercard creator Bill Atkinson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Atkinson https://twitter.com/billatk https://www.youtube.com/@photocardapp

CircuitPython Your Own Adventure https://learn.adafruit.com/circuit-python-your-own-adventure?view=all

Tons of HyperCard on the Adafruit blog! https://blog.adafruit.com/?s=hypercard

HyperCard, the missing link to the Web https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/06/07/34-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web-hypercard-vintagecomputing-arstechnica/

The Library of Congress and HyperCard https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/12/15/the-library-of-congress-and-hypercard-vintagecomputing-digitalpreservation-librarycongress/

DitherPaint: a 1-bit, browser-based drawing application https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/06/09/ditherpaint-a-1-bit-browser-based-drawing-application/

Proposed Commercials featuring Mac team Members in October 1983, Full Demo Reel https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/11/24/proposed-commercials-featuring-mac-team-members-in-october-1983-full-demo-reel-andyhertzfeld-apple/

Andy Hertzfeld has a YouTube channel https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/07/20/andy-hertzfeld-has-a-youtube-channel-and-its-great-andyhertzfeld-billatk-susankare/

Apple Macintosh - Your Tour of HyperCard (1991) Apple Computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx_WCIAM4bA

Explore Magic Cap, a smartphone OS from a decade before the iPhone https://learn.adafruit.com/magic-cap-the-smartphone-os-from-the-90s?view=all

#marchintosh #apple #hypercard #Bill Atkinson #computer chronicles #retro

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neogenianconnection · 11 months

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Follow these links to learn more about Hyperianism:

-https://www.iamhyperian.com

-https://youtube.com/@morgueofficial

-https://youtube.com/@TheHyperianSource

-https://youtube.com/@JanDaemon

-https://youtube.com/@hyperianmidnight

#mister morgue #education #hyperian #hyperianism #Neogenian

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hydralisk98 · 1 year

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Servitor computation system project? (Heavily WIP)

Time to rise and shine amongst the crowd as a... creative developer I guess... And yeah, I will start with some C#/F# workflow for the time being but I will customize the full stack in due time.

Tasklist

Finish my instruction set for the architecture (get to the point between 64 & ~144 instructions)

Develop some of the constructed world (linguistics, cultures and technical history to research and test my suggestions in a realistic context)

Implement assembler

Implement disassembler

Implement debugger

Implement visualizer / monitor

Implement emulator

Implement virtual machine & bytecode runtime

Implement hardware versions of the Servitor architecture (repeated a couple of times in very... varied technologies)

Implement the nucleus & a few rudimentary commands (basic kernel)

Implement more general-use commands (Verb Subject/Agent Lambda)

Implement VeneraFS (file-system similar to RedSeaFS from ZealOS)

Implement complex interactive shell (Fish, Common Lisp and ZealOS' are good inspirational material)

Implement more core nucleus utilities

Implement sophisticated hex / disk editor & monitor

Implement SickleLisp (customized 'Mal' Lisp) & BlackBear (NetLogo / FreeBasic / DIBOL aka a simpler syntax & closer to hardware) programming languages

Research & implement DIS -> INMOS -> CLADO

Research & implement Nomad -> Perseus -> SASS

Implement Synod as a subset of ZealOS for Servitor processors

Implement the multimedia to VeneraFS (standardized version of the Synod filesystem)

Implement MESA (multimedia suite)

Implement SyndicatedDE (desktop environment, Liquidshell / KDE)

Implement MATRA (hypermedia protocol suite, OpenXanadu)

Implement BUILD2 & QODOT (game engine stack)

Implement KweCard (lightweight hypermedia suite, Hypercard / Cardfile / Notecards / HTML5+CSS3)

Implement Prospero (3D first person multi-user game to demonstrate Servitor capabilities)

Implement Tako (rich text editor akin to Vim)

#maskutchew #computer engineering by myself #12-bit tribble as basic word unit #C sharp & F sharp programming because I need to start somewhere with what I got #I got that idea for quite a while but struggle with life because of myself go figure

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belascoainyneptuno · 1 year

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Oda urgente a Gustavo Pérez Firmat (II)

"Al escribir estas cosas" по soy muy organizado. Las décadas que he pasado en estas tierras borrosas, en estas tardes preciosas de vivir sin ton ni son en un puente, en el guión entre pasado y presente, entre el exilio y su gente, me han develto mi nación.

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#50 lecciones de exilio y desexilio #Gustavo Pérez Firmat #Hypermedia #Oda urgente a Gustavo Pérez Firmat #Odas urgentes #Revista Desmadres

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wreckham · 3 months

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developing a complex about both serial novels and hypermedia fiction. nursing a fetish regarding messy stories told in ever-changing mediums. founding a new school of thought where i drip feed ppl the dumb shit i think about on loop every day forever. hellish!

#beck yammers #man i hate art. it is my only true love btw

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