Rebooting Electronic Literature Volume 3: Documenting Pre-Web Born Digital Media

Interview with Readers about Stuart Moulthrop's "Victory Garden"

As with the Traversal for Moulthrop, interviews were held for the Readers of the work following their Traversals of Victory Garden. These were held on Wednesday, July 10, 2013, by Grigar and Moulthrop, at the Electronic Literature Lab at Washington State University Vancouver. Both men accessed read Version 1.2 of the work on a Macintosh Classic, the same computer Moulthrop used for his Traversal.
 

Reader 1 Interview about Stuart Moulthrop's Victory Garden, Part 1



Reader 2 Interview about Stuart Moulthrop's Victory Garden, Part 1

Dene Grigar interviews Sean Philbrook about his experience with Victory Garden, including key differences between the hypertext and other narrative experiences (such as print books, social media, and video games), what compelled Sean to follow certain hyperlinks over others, the unpredictable nature of hypertext, and his personal experience with the piece on a narrative level.
 

Reader 2 Interview about Stuart Moulthrop's Victory Garden, Part 2

Dene Grigar interviews Sean Philbrook about the narrative structure of Victory Garden, how well the hypertextual medium lends itself toward immersion, and the differences between experiencing Victory Garden on a desktop computer versus on a mobile device.

Reader 2 Interview about Stuart Moulthrop's Victory Garden, Part 3

Dene Grigar and several others interview Sean Philbrook about the contrasting expectations between a print-based book versus a hypertextual piece, and the benefits of interacting with that medium.

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