Rebooting Electronic Literature, Volume 2: Documenting Pre-Web Born Digital Media

Traversal of Stephanie Strickland's "True North"

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Traversal of Stephanie Strickland's True North, Introduction
The traversal of Stephanie Stricklands True North was performed in the Move Lab on the campus of Washington State University Vancouver. The traversal was live-streamed on YouTube using the Pathfinders eLit channel. Audiences participated in the traversal and the following Q&A session using the YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and in person in the audience in the Move Lab. The video clip captures the pre-show before showing the Traversal trailer.


Traversal of Stephanie Strickland's True North, Part 1
This video clip starts off with Stephanie Strickland introducing the live traversal of her work True North. She goes on to share the six ways she describes the publication at the time of its hypertext publication. One: True North comes in three forms: a print book, a hypertext, and a poem. Two: The hypertext form allows not only for a full range, but for a constantly renewed structure of proximity. Three: True North allows voices to speak to each other across vast gaps. Four: True North explores the pressure of language practice puts on women’s bodies. Five: True North rings the changes into images/themes. Strickland also explains how she came to write True North.


 

Traversal of Stephanie Strickland's True North, Part 2
Strickland begins by saying that one of the difficulties when it came to publishing the hypertext was that she needed a Mac and PC version, and ended up having to re-write the manual for each of them. She also notes that “since Storyspace does not use color to signify text link”, it makes the reader to press a key to reveal boxes around the text. She then talks about the True North cover before showing the Blue Planet navigation map in the work. As Strickland explores the work, she notes that the simplest way to read True North is to keep hitting “enter”.

 
 
Traversal of Stephanie Strickland's True North, Part 3
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Traversal of Stephanie Strickland's True North, Part 4
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Traversal of Stephanie Strickland's True North, Q&A, Part 1
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Traversal of Stephanie Strickland's True North, Q&A, Part 2
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Traversal of Stephanie Strickland's True North, Q&A, Part 3
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