MR Narrative

Members of the AEL are engaged in a long-term initiative to explore the possibilities of the mixed-reality narratives.  These narrative experiences can be eclectic combinations of digital forms, including web-based multimedia with location-specific, location-aware, and AR applications. We are particularly interested in narratives that can be experienced on tablets and smartphones—often in the specific locations described or shown in the story.  All of these forms are part of the long tradition of local writing: this dates back to ancient inscriptions in Mesopotamia, Egypt, ancient Greece and Rome, and elsewhere. The tradition continues will all sorts of writing about and in (special) places in the world. The technologies of AR and MR extend this tradition with capacity to write on the world virtually and dynamic with digital data. Our initiative embraces the historical, theoretical, and practical and performative aspects of local writing.  Present and past experiments  include: