Based on Norman Klein’s book, History of Forgetting, this interactive narrative combines a database detective story with a digital city symphony and a metanarrative reflection on interactive storytelling in this new medium. Set in a three-mile radius near downtown Los Angeles, the DVD-ROM explores several locations that helped shape the city’s cultural history. Includes a book, which contains a novella by cultural historian Norman Klein and essays on the production.

AUTHORS
• Creation : Rosemary Comella and Andreas Kratky with Norman M. Klein
• Original concept: Jeffrey Shaw
• Interface design: Rosemary Comella, Andreas Kratky
• Programming: Andreas Kratky

PRODUCTION
• Executive producer : Marsha Kinder
• Production managers: Juri Hwang, Liang-Yin Kuo, Tania Trepanier

• A co-production of The Labyrinth Project and the Center for Art and Media ZKM. Annenburg Center for Communication, University of South California, 2003

Original english version, DVD for Macintosh™ and Windows™

Photographer, film maker and plastician, originary from Czechoslovakia, Tom Drahos revisits masterpieces from 19th century litterature through seven CDROMS reflecting a totally contemporary universe. For each one, Drahos invents a world of myhtological, symbolic, social and personnal references.

This spoken word video compilation on CD-ROM is made of 10 different audio performances accompagnied with 4 video clips, coming from both french and english sides of Montreal’s upcoming spoken word scene.

• Performances by: Marie-Hélène Poitras/Yannick Duguay, Anthony Bansfield, Jean-Marc Massie, Catherine Kidd, Le Seba, Julie Mahfood, Yannick B. Gélinas, Neale McDevitt, Ian Lauzon/Patrick Baby, Doug Simms.

AUTHORS
• Performances by : Marie-Hélène Poitras/Yannick Duguay, Anthony Bansfield, Jean-Marc Massie, Catherine Kidd, Le Seba, Julie Mahfood, Yannick B. Gélinas, Neale McDevitt, Ian Lauzon/Patrick Baby, Doug Simms.

PRODUCTION
• Direction : LG Dupuis
• Audio/Video production: Bernard Belzile
• Pictures : François Gaudet
• Cover : Ann-Sophie Caouette
• Interface : Luc Charest
• English texts : Mark Peterson

Original English and French version
CD-ROM for Macintosh™ and Windows™

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Aux frontières de l’autobiographie, du document historique et de la fiction, cette oeuvre interactive présente une diversité de matériel audiovisuel sur l’écrivain chicano et texan John Rechy, et de façon plus large, sur la culture à la fois chicano et gay..
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Challenging the borders between autobiography, memory, history and fiction, this interactive memoir presents a diverse array of personal materials by and about John Rechy, a Chicano writer from Texas, and sets them against larger collective histories of Chicano culture and the gay world.
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A woman wakes up one morning with a physical anomaly : her hands become hypersensitive, to a point where she can ‘read’ and feel the world by touching objects. Science and medecine help her to adapt to her new senses. Her hands starts to grow, she becomes the Women With Huge Hands. This CD-ROM comes with an illustrated book of poetry of which it constitutes the last chapter.

AUTHORS
• Concept and graphic design : Véronique Hubert
• Multimedia creation : Pierre Braun for Présent composé

PRODUCTION
Présent composé

ÉDITION
Éditions Incertain Sens, Université Rennes 2
cedition with FRAC Bretagne
ISBN 2-914291-06-X

French version only for Macintosh™ and Windows™

This literary and illustrated work will take you in the heart of Dominique Noblet’s life, which involves love stories, job interviews, and a mundane social life. Through multi-layered dialogues filled with contradictions, we discover the ambiguity and the power games involved in social interaction.

AUTHORS
• Text : Francois Coulon

• Illustrations : Hélène Moreau

PRODUCTION
Kaona, 2002

French version only for Macintosh™ and Windows™