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Readers' Traversals & Interviews for John McDaid's Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse


These traversals and interviews of readers Rebecca Johnson and Madi Kozacek, conducted by Dene Grigar and Stuart Moulthrop, took place on Thursday, August 8, 2013 in the Electronic Literature Lab at Washington State University Vancouver as part of the Pathfinders project. Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse, a hypertext, multimedia experience authored by John McDaid, features a narrative based on a "chocolate-box of death." The conceit upon which Uncle Buddy’s was built (Re: you receive a box of seemingly random items from your Uncle Buddy’s estate) was derived from McDaid’s personal experience: In 1986, the same year McDaid began work on Uncle Buddy’s, his dying Aunt Rita sent him a See’s candy box filled with odds and ends that constituted a portion of her “estate” she wished to give McDaid. These recordings are divided into eight parts and focus on the historical and cultural experience of reading the work.




Rebecca Johnson



McDaid Traversal, Part 1

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McDaid Traversal, Part 2

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McDaid Interview, Part 1

The video file is saved as a high-quality 1280x720, compressed MPEG-4 Movie (.mp4) H.264 codec, with a high-quality audio track (.aac). The duration is 9:14 minutes, streaming from the Vimeo video-sharing site.



McDaid Interview, Part 2

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Madi Kozacek



McDaid Traversal, Part 3

The video file is saved as a high-quality 1280x720, compressed MPEG-4 Movie (.mp4) H.264 codec, with a high-quality audio track (.aac). The duration is 12:37 minutes, streaming from the Vimeo video-sharing site.



McDaid Traversal, Part 4

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McDaid Interview, Part 3

The video file is saved as a high-quality 1280x720, compressed MPEG-4 Movie (.mp4) H.264 codec, with a high-quality audio track (.aac). The duration is 13:22 minutes, streaming from the Vimeo video-sharing site.



McDaid Interview, Part 4

The video file is saved as a high-quality 1280x720, compressed MPEG-4 Movie (.mp4) H.264 codec, with a high-quality audio track (.aac). The duration is 13:03 minutes, streaming from the Vimeo video-sharing site.

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