“Storyland” by Nanette Wylde

Screen shot from “Storyland” by Nanette Wylde. Black background with the title “Storyland” above. Each letter is a different color: pink, green, purple, red, baby blue, yellow, aqua blue, black red and orange. The text below is in white and there is a pink circle in the right corner at the buttom that says “new story”. Text is hardly viewable in this image.
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Nanette Wylde’s Storyland (2002) is a digital work that produces recombinant narratives within a frame that seeks to evoke the ethos of a circus performance. Each story within Storyland opens with a black screen, the title of the work lighting up in a randomized configuration of multi-coloured letters to a shortened subsection of of Louis-Philippe Laurendeau’s ‘Thunder and Blazes’ (1910), a small-band reworking of Julius Fučík’s Opus 68 march, ‘The Entrance of the Gladiators’ (1897). The stories within Storyland follow a basic six paragraph template, and are refreshed each time the user presses the ‘new story’ button. Each time this button is pushed, the page refreshes by playing its music again and produces elements in a new combination in order to tell the user a different narrative, seemingly depicting a whole new performance, although elements of the previous tale are displaced and repeated within each new tale.

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“Storyland” por Nanette Wylde

Screen shot from “Storyland” by Nanette Wylde. Black background with the title “Storyland” above. Each letter is a different color: pink, green, purple, red, baby blue, yellow, aqua blue, black red and orange. The text below is in white and there is a pink circle in the right corner at the buttom that says “new story”. Text is hardly viewable in this image.

Storyland de Nanette Wylde (2002) es un trabajo digital que produce narrativas recombinantes dentro de un marco que busca evocar el carácter distintivo de un espectáculo de circo. Cada historia dentro de Storyland se abre con una pantalla negra, el título de la obra se ilumina en una configuración aleatoria de letras multicolores a una subsección abreviada de ‘Thunder and Blazes’ (1910) de Louis-Philippe Laurendeau, una nueva banda de reelaboración de la marcha del Opus 68 de Julio Fučík, “The Entrance of the Gladiators” (1897). Las historias dentro de Storyland siguen una plantilla básica de seis párrafos y se actualizan cada vez que el usuario presiona el botón ‘historia nueva.’ Cada vez que se presiona este botón, la página se actualiza reproduciendo nuevamente su música y produce elementos en una nueva combinación para decirle al usuario una narración diferente, que aparentemente representa una nueva interpretación, aunque los elementos de la historia anterior se desplazan y repiten dentro cada nuevo cuento.

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