The Idea Found Letters : Jack & Matilda Elevator Statement Found Letters: Jack & Matilda is a work of historical literary fiction and an environmental reading experience that follows a World War II-era couple, Jack and Matilda, from occupied Paris to post-war rural Kansas, engaging … Read More →
Category Archives: Writing
Found Letters ~ Thesis Development ~ Reflections on a Conceptual Sketch
After developing a quick sketch to visualize the concept for Found Letters’ immersive installation, I did a thirty minute freewrite to unlock new questions and explore various avenues of approach. My notes follow. Is the experience of immersion self-contained? Is it a single-user or multi-user … Read More →
Thesis Proposal ~ Found Letters: Jack & Matilda
Found Letters: Jack & Matilda is a fictional love story told through letters that engages the reader in the art of narrative-building, the creation of character, and the moment of discovery. This interactive novel-in-verse begins in print, extends to the digital page, and finishes as … Read More →
The archive of happenstance
Art of the Archive Professor Michael Connor I read “Archive Fever” from a distance, distracted by the jargon the author uses to regard the works he cites. Okwui Enwezor employs the voice of “neutral” critic but, as he points out, few, if any, documents are … Read More →
The Nightingale Archive ~ Fact or fiction?
Art of the Archive Professor Michael Connor EXPLORE THE NIGHTINGALE ARCHIVE Assignment Create a fictional archive based on material created from scratch or appropriated from another source. Present this archive in a way that offers an insight into the event or culture it purports to … Read More →
Is Photography the New Literacy? After Walter Benjamin’s “A Little History of Photography”
Walter Benjamin writes, “Everyone will have noticed how much more readily apprehensible a picture, above all a sculpture, and indeed also architecture are in a photo than in reality.” So, abstraction grants the viewer freedom to grapple with what that abstraction depicts. To extrapolate, could … Read More →
Evolution ~ Interactive Letter Box becomes Found Letters : Jack & Matilda
Collective Storytelling Professor Marianne Petit & ITP Spring Show 2011 Collaborator: Kevin Bleich For the last part of the spring semester, I collaborated with my friend and classmate Kevin Bleich to evolve the technology, content, and concept for Interactive Letter Box into a functioning installation … Read More →
Refined User Scenario & ITP Show Submission ~ Interactive Letter Box
Collective Storytelling Professor Marianne Petit Collaborator: Kevin Bleich I drafted a new user scenario and elevator statement, then submitted the project for inclusion in the ITP Spring Show 2011. We find out on May 6th if it’s accepted. Project Summary Interactive Letter Box is an … Read More →
Collective Storytelling Final ~ Interactive Letter Box
Collective Storytelling Marianne Petit In-Class Presentation ~ April 20, 2011 Inspiration Inspired, in part, by a collection of letters my grandfather wrote my grandmother during World War II, and the work of Janet Cardiff and Heidi Kumao, Interactive Letter Box will explore the experience of … Read More →
Volumes of Voices ~ Notation ~ From a Script to a Score
Sound and The City Professor Daniel Perlin Script ~ Volumes of Voices ~ Narrative Tour This script of the narrative portion of the Volumes of Voices audio tour offers a first look at the narrator’s voice, and outlines sites the visitor will see as he … Read More →
The Hourly Comic ~ Reflections
Collective Storytelling Marianne Petit This week I choose to perform the Hourly Comic because I wanted to explore the storytelling potential of word and image, and I thought it would push me outside my comfort zone. I intended, at first, to try drawing, though my … Read More →
Found Letters ~ “Poster Show” ~ Alumni Feedback
Feedback ~ Kathy Wilson ~ Thesis Advisor With regard to writers innovating around the reading experience, there is the idea that without pain, there is no change. Writing is not feeling the pain caused by technology as much as publishing is, that’s why writing innovation … Read More →