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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Over the past half century, computing has profoundly altered the ways stories are imagined and told. Immersive, narrative, and database technologies transform creative practices and hybrid spaces revealing and concealing the most fundamental acts of human invention: making stories. The Digital Imaginary illuminates these changes by bringing leading North American and European writers, artists and scholars, like Sharon Daniel, Stuart Moulthrop, Nick Montfort, Kate Pullinger and Geof Bowker, to engage in discussion about how new forms and structures change the creative process. Through interviews, commentaries and meta-commentaries, this book brings fresh insight into the creative process from differing, disciplinary perspectives, provoking questions for makers and readers about meaning, interpretation and utterance. The Digital Imaginary will be an indispensable volume for anyone seeking to understand the impact of digital technology on contemporary culture, including storymakers, educators, curators, critics, readers and artists, alike.

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The Digital Imaginary figures vital, and some of the best, aspects of an emergent world of Electronic Literature by creating just the kind of discursive community that its collection of interviews and essays - recursively, self-reflexively - celebrates. Artists who make meaning from computational media and new forms, from multimodality, from digitally-enabled collaboration, and from the transactional choices of their readers are placed in explicit, exploratory dialog with a number of these very readers. A further, generative layer of metacommentary from two widely differing perspectives adds voiceover - from visceral theory (Szilak) and code-level computation (Montfort) - to what is, in particular, an entanglement of cinematic, literary, and computational world-lines. And the whole is haunted by the cosmologically distancing vision of Steve Tomasula, a maker in these multimodal forms for whom the digital imaginary scales, ethically, beyond the horizons of received human culture and technology. * John Cayley, Professor and Chair of Literary Arts, Brown University, USA * Digitality has erupted the ambit of narratives with which we invent and interpret our being in the world, as well as the forms in which these narratives are expressed and experienced. The Digital Imaginary is an invaluable and elucidative analysis of the current `state of this art' by authors and artists who are thinking and working at its leading edge. Its penetrating case studies and conversations map best current practices and beguiling future possibilities. * Jeffrey Shaw, Artist, Chair Professor of Media Art, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong *

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Roderick Coover is Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University, USA, and author or coauthor of numerous award-winning creative works featured in international arts venues, festivals and public institutions as well as scholarly works spanning fields of the arts, humanities and social sciences.

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