Thread: image + narrative

Original editor: 
Steve Tomasula
Publication date: 
1997-07-15

Installed as a double issue starting in the winter of 96/97, contributors sought to explore through literature a transition already evident in the culture at large, where technology had enabled narratives of all types to undergo transformation by the image.

2011-10-24

"With each project I find myself reimagining what cinema might be": An Interview with Zoe Beloff

Jussi Parikka interviews artist Zoe Beloff about her relationship to the emerging set of interdisciplinary theories and methodologies known as media archaeology. In way of response, Beloff discusses some past works, including: Lost (1995), Shadow Land (2000), Claire and Don in Slumberland (2002), Charming Augustine (2005), The Somnambulists (2008), and The Dream Films (2009).

Jussi Parikka
2010-03-03

Between Play and Politics: Dysfunctionality in Digital Art

Marie-Laure Ryan argues that dysfunctionality in new media art is "not limited to play with inherently digital phenomena such as code and programs," and provides a number of alternative art examples, while also arguing that dysfunctionality "could [also] promote a better understanding of the cognitive activity of reading, or of the significance of the book as a support of writing."

Marie-Laure Ryan
2004-02-22

A Remediation's Remediation?

Jan Baetens looks 'through' and 'at' Bolter and Gromala's Windows and Mirrors and finds a foggy vision.

Jan Baetens
2002-05-01

Architecture as a Narrative Medium

Christine Bucher, reviewing Beatriz Columnina, considers the narrative and photographic dimensions of interiors designed by Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier.

Christine Bucher
2000-12-30

Lexia to Perplexia:

hypertext? cybertext? hypermedia? webart? while new media critics debate the terms, Talan Memmott has produced the thing itself, a creative use of applied technology.

Talan Memmott
1999-03-15

Great Excavations

Ted Pelton views Robert Creeley's image/text collaborations in Buffalo, NY.

Ted Pelton
1998-07-01

Lessons in Latent History

Steffen Hantke presents an archeology of Don DeLillo's Underworld.

Steffen Hantke
1998-01-01

A Gathering of Threads

The culmination of ebr version 2.0 (an html- and java-based Web production), the spring 1999 "gathering of threads" introduced an important component into the journal design: the thREAD that actively conducts readers among affiliated essays.

Joseph Tabbi
1998-01-01

Image + Narrative

In collecting essays for ebrs 6 and 7, the editors sought work that would not only talk about image and narrative theory in the networked environment; we wanted essays with design elements in their very construction. The essays were presented in the context of Anne Burdick's first integral design for the journal itself, ebr version 2.0.

Anne Burdick
1998-01-01

Graphic or Verbal: A Dilemma

J. Hillis Miller looks at the "multimedia" Victorian novel, embodied in ink, paper, cardboard, and glue.

J. Hillis Miller
1997-12-30

The Flights of A821: dearchiving the proceedings of a birdsong

Marta Werner uncages Emily Dickinson's fragments.

Marta Werner
1996-12-30

Reading Writing Space

Anne Burdick reads Jay David Bolter's Writing Space.

Anne Burdick

Current thread editor: Joseph Tabbi. Image + Narrative was launched in the summer of 1998 by Steve Tomasula and Anne Burdick. Driving stills used in Image+Narrative icon by Anne Burdick.