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Traumaculture and Telepathetic Cyber Fiction

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2009)

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This paper explores the interactive CD-ROM No Other Symptoms: Time Travelling with Rosalind Brodsky, usingtelepathetic socio-psychological, psychoanalytic and narrative theories. The CD-ROMexists as a contemporary artwork and published interactive hardcover book authored by painter and new-media visual artist Suzanne Treister. The artwork incorporates Treister’s paintings, writing, photoshop, animation, video and audio work with narrative structures taken from world history, the history of psychoanalysis, futurist science and science fiction, family history and biography.

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  1. School of Creative Arts, James Cook University, P.O. Box 6811, Cairns, QLD 4870, Australia

    Jacquelene Drinkall

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  1. DSI - Departamento de Sistemas de Informacao, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Azurém, 4800-058, Guimaraes, Portugal

    Ido A. Iurgel

  2. Departamento de Ciencias da Comunicacao, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4810-057, Braga, Portugal

    Nelson Zagalo

  3. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Freyung 6/6, A-1010, Vienna, Austria

    Paolo Petta

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Drinkall, J. (2009). Traumaculture and Telepathetic Cyber Fiction. In: Iurgel, I.A., Zagalo, N., Petta, P. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5915. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10643-9_21

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