Tear Down the Walls

What does it mean to reunify different areas of scholarship surrounding hypertext and social media? The response this exhibition offers is: Reunification would include, not only papers by researchers, but also creative output by artists who use various hypertextual strategies and participatory involvement for producing highly experimental narratives. Included in this exhibition, therefore, are eight leading artists from Europe, North America, and Australia who explore 3D animation, mobile technology, hypertext platforms like Storyspace and Twine, and web languages for the purpose of storytelling. Coordinating with the conference theme, the exhibition shows how hypertext and social media can be used for human creative expression and so extends our understanding of these technologies. Works include John Barber & Greg Philbrook, Sound Spheres: Hyper Sound-Based Narratives; Mark Bernstein, Those Trojan Girls; Mez Breeze, A Place Called Ormalcy and V[R]ignettes: A VR Microstories Series; Serge BOUCHARDON and co-authors: Marion Coisnard, Martin Delabre, Maxime Garnier, Huichuan LI, Marie Margerand, Marion Schildknecht, Alexandre Truong, Nicolas Vigne, and Yihui Yang, "fred:-)"; J-B-W-E-L-L, TRAINING TO BE KING WHEN YOU BLOWN IT ONCE ALREADY: A short novel on the crime(s) of usurpation; Judy Malloy, The Yellow Bowl II; and John McDaid, We Knew The Glass Man.