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Week 12 April 2, 2020

UNIT FOUR: Contemporary Media Ecologies

The Augmented Reality Text 

“Introduction” in Lori Emerson. 

Maria Engberg Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Jay David Bolter “Introduction: Cultural expression in augmented and mixed reality.” in Convergence: The Journal of International Research into New Media Technologies. 2014. 20.1 (3-9). 

Amanda Starling Gould “Invisible visualities: Augmented reality art and the contemporary media ecology.” in Convergence: The Journal of International Research into New Media Technologies. 2014. 20.1 (25-32). 

Helen Papagiannis “Working towards defining an aesthetics of augmented reality: A medium in transition” in Convergence: The Journal of International Research into New Media Technologies. 2014. 20.1 (33-40). 

4 Amaranth Borsuk & Brad Bouse. Between Page and Screen 

5 “The Curious Comeback of the Dreaded QR Code

Textual Practice and Workshop: Augmented Reality using Sketchar https://sketchar.tech/ and Just a Line https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arexperiments.justaline&hl=en_US
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 Emerson concludes that “perhaps the future of digital literature is readingwriting that is born of the network but lives offline––digital literature transformed into bookbound readingwriting that performs and embodies its own frictional media archaeological analysis.” Does Amaranth Borsuk’s Between Page and Screen exemplify Emerson’s prophesied “future of digital literature”? And, what limits does such a genre/technique/mode present?