Research

Digital narrative
in the process of becoming

XDN brings an experimental approach to humanities research, analysing forms of digital narrative that are contemporary and not yet fully settled — not part of the cultural archive of the past, but in the process of becoming.

Working with an interdisciplinary team drawing on international experts in digital narrative, authors, developers and early career researchers, the project advances the state of the art in electronic literature through the analysis of three forms.

The project documents, maps, analyses and develops these forms and places them in cultural and technological context — considering how they produce affect and identification, how they entail new forms of “cyborg authorship,” and their potential cultural impacts. The aim is foundational research on the relationship between narrative, immersion, aurality and machine learning, useful to researchers and to the cultural sector.

Scholarly output is listed below. Creative work made inside the project is under Works.