<videovortex> N. Katherine Hayles: "Narrative and Database: Remediating Literature Through Data"

[Geert Lovink]

Outline of her speech in Utrecht on July 5 at the Re-Mediating 
Literature conference (http://www2.let.uu.nl/remediatingliterature/).

N. Katherine Hayles: "Narrative and Database:  Remediating Literature 
Through Data"

Recently several theorists have proposed that database is replacing 
narrative as the dominant cultural form, among them Lev Manovich and Ed 
Folsom.  This presentation will argue for that narrative is essential 
for human communication and culture, but it will also acknowledge that 
contemporary narratives are transforming through the impact of data.  
Remediation here implies that the feedback cycle described by Bolter 
and Grusin in Remediation can also be understood to take place through 
different cultural forms as well as through different media, where the 
dynamics are informed not by the hypermediation/transparency dialectic 
they describe but rather by the circulation through narrative and data.