Digital Imaginary

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.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionThe Digital ImaginaryPart One: DatabaseInterviewsConnections And Coincidences In The End: Death In Seven Colors: A Conversation With David ClarkEmotional Proximity Through Inside The Distance: A Conversation With Sharon DanielCommentariesStuart Moulthrop: Now What: Sharon Daniel And David Clark On The Digital Imaginary. Judith Aston: The Readerly And The Cinematic: Hybrid Reconfigurations ThroughDigital Media Practice. Part Two: ArchiveInterviewsPry As A Cinematic Novel: A Conversation With Samantha GormanThe Generative Archive Of Encyclopedia: A Conversation With Håkan Jonson And Johannes Heldén.CommentariesLisa Swanstrom: The Taxonomy Is Imprecise.Geoffrey C. Bowker: Reading The Endless ArchivePart Three: MultimodalityInterviewsAuthorship In Inanimate Alice and Letter To An Unknown Soldier: A Conversation With Kate PullingerThe Metamorphoses Of Front As A Narrative Told Through Social Media Interface: A Conversation With Donna Leishman.CommentariesAnastasia Salter: Collaborative Voices: Kate Pullinger’s Digital Authorial Voice. Mark C. Marino: What Holds Electronic Literature Together? MetacommentariesIllya Szilak: Do Cyborgs Dream Of Iphone Apps? The Body And Storytelling In The Digital Imaginary. Nick Montfort: Computational Literary Practices And Processes And Imagination.AfterwordSteve Tomasula: Haunting The Digital Imaginary. BibliographyIndex

The Digital Imaginary remains a unique text ... Its interviews, commentaries and metacommentaries offer fresh insights on familiar concepts from new media studies ... It is this willingness to bear the unflattering marks of its experiments that makes the book an exhilarating and worthwhile exploration into electronic literature and digital art, one that opens exciting new avenues for academic edited collections.