Ambient Literature

这个项目探索了当数据渴望文学形式时可能发生的事情。它的问题是，通过无处不在的媒体系统传递的情境文学体验如何产生新的文学体验形式？该研究着眼于书籍的历史，以确定读者的身体状况如何影响写作本身的性质，然后将这种历史理解应用于思考阅读状况如何通过普及和无处不在的计算而改变。19世纪和20世纪初，旅行、城市化和流动性的发展催生了一个移动阅读市场，例如在英国，WH Smith书摊连锁店（1792年）和后来的企鹅出版社（1935年）提供了价格低廉但文学、口袋大小的平装书。在过去的三百年里，文本和阅读已经成为城市生活中越来越密集的特征。私人藏书或大学图书馆的“单独阅读”范式实际上是阅读史上一个相对较小的部分。咖啡馆、报纸、传单、海报、信件和标牌都是这个城市日常体验的一部分。在过去的三十年里，我们扩展了这个范围，首先是随身听（不仅是移动音乐，还有文学文本在移动中传递的潜力），现在是便携式屏幕（加上音频），再次扩展了这个工具范围。文本的体验以一种令人眼花缭乱的混杂交织在我们的日常生活中。尽管独自阅读模式占主导地位，但城市一直是一种以文本为媒介的体验。自2012年以来，这些文学模式已经在亚马逊的Whisper同步Kindle服务中实现了无缝的连续性，用户可以在45,000多本已记录的书籍中在文本阅读和语音叙述之间切换。我们现在的阅读可能发生在城市信息系统的背景下，这些信息系统是动态的，对人们的行为做出反应；他们整合了具体的和想象的经验，物质的和中介的对象。简而言之，它们增加了我们获得新形式阅读和听力体验的机会。该研究利用表演、音频散步和创意写作，委托当代作家创作三部新作品，展示情境文学体验的力量。环境文学的作者有潜力创作出成为无脚本共享物质世界一部分的作品。它们可以在读者和环境之间创造一种相遇，在这种相遇中，直接的环境成为故事展开的舞台。

This project explores what might happen when data aspires to literary form. It asks how can situated literary experiences delivered through pervasive media systems produce new forms of literary experience? The research looks at the history of the book to establish how the physical situation of the reader has effected the nature of the writing itself, it will then apply this historical understanding to thinking about how the reading situation is changing through pervasive and ubiquitous computing. The development of travel, urbanity and mobility through the 19th & early 20th Centuries produced a mobile reading market supplied in the UK for instance by the WH Smith bookstall chain (1792) and later by the Penguin imprint for the easily affordable but literary, pocket sized paperback (1935). Texts and reading practices have been an increasingly dense feature of urban life for the past three hundred years. The 'solitary reading' paradigm of the private collection or university library is actually a comparatively minor part of the history of reading. Coffee houses, newspapers, handbills, fly posters, letters, and signage have all been part of the daily experience of the city. We have extended this range in the past thirty years, first with the Walkman (and the potential not only for mobile music but also for literary text to be delivered on the move), and now with portable screens (plus audio) extending this range of tools once more. Experiences of text interweave themselves into our daily lives with a bewildering promiscuity. Despite the dominance of the solitary reading model, the city has always been a text-mediated experience. Since 2012, these literary modes have been available in the seamless continuity of Amazon's Whisper sync Kindle service that makes it possible for the user to switch between text reading and voice narration in over 45000 titles that have now been recorded. Our reading may now occur in the context of urban information systems that are dynamic, responding to what people do; they integrate embodied and imaginary experiences, material and mediating objects. In short they increase our opportunities for new forms of reading and listening experience. The research draws upon performance, audio walks, and creative writing to commission three new works by contemporary authors that will demonstrate the power of situated literary experience. The Ambient Literature author has the potential to produce work becomes a part of the unscripted shared material world. They can produce an encounter between the reader and their environment where the immediate surroundings become the stage on which the story plays out.