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Title: NARRAHAND


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NARRAHAND a collaborative GPS based fictional
narrative
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What?
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NarraHand is a collaborative fiction by Africans
in Oslo that uses GPS and mobile technologies to
investigate identity, mediated meaning making and
multimodal expression NarraHand is developed via
a blend of given and emerging practice theory
in hypernarrative, digital rhetoric and poetics
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Why?
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Micro narratives and reflections are partnered
in a locative fiction and a wiki
review Participation, activity and materiality
are connected Genre as social action is at the
core, as is the design and performativity of
digitally mediated discourse
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Activity and situated articulation are
central Collaboration fictional roles are
key Multimodal expression on mobile
phones Links between social networking urban
computing
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The city that cannot be expunged from the mind is
like an armature, a honey-comb in whose cells
each of us can place the things he wants to
remember names of famous men, virtues, numbers,
vegetable and mineral classifications, dates of
battles, constellations, parts of speech. Between
each idea and each point of the itinerary an
affinity or a contrast can be established,
serving as an immediate aid to memory Calvino, I.
1972. The Invisible City. Harcourt NY. pp.
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NARRAHAND a collaborative GPS based fictional
narrative
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Who?
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By way of a collaborative mobile fiction
Narrahand investigates the creative expressions
and identities of five young adults in Oslo
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Project leader Andrew Morrison Development
team Idunn Sem, Thomas Devron, Jeremy
Touissaint, Ole Smørdal, Jon Olav Eikenes, Martin
Havnør (Faster Imaging) Authors 5 Africans
living in Oslo Researcher Andrew Morrison
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Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds
again a past of his that he did not know he had
the foreignness of what you no longer are or no
longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign
unposessed places. Calvino, I. 1972. The
Invisible City. Harcourt NY. pp. 28-29
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NARRAHAND a collaborative GPS based fictional
narrative
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How?
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The fictional story of Narrahand is being
authored by five Africans directly onto a map in
their GPS-enabled mobiles. The story can be
accessed on similar mobiles (click here for
subscription). Readers can make comments into
the story. Readers can follow the making of the
story and to record their own accounts on a
wiki. Research about NarraHand and related links
are included.
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No one, wise Kublai, knows better than you that
the city must never be confused with words that
describe it. And yet between the one and the
other there is a connection. Calvino, I. 1972.
The Invisible City. Harcourt NY. p. 61
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NARRAHAND a collaborative GPS based fictional
narrative
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Where?
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Central Olso is our main location, especially the
area around the main station, waterfront, and new
Opera. The area within which the story takes
place is walkable.
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With cities, it is as with dreams everything
imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most
unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a
desire, or its reverse, a fear. Cities, like
dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if
the thread of their discourse is secret, their
rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful,
and everything conceals something else. Calvino,
I. 1972. The Invisible City. Harcourt NY. p.
44
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NARRAHAND a collaborative GPS based fictional
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When?
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We need to break down the artificial boundaries
we have tried to create between the mental and
the material, the individual and the social
aspects of people and things interacting
physically and semiotically with other people and
things. Jay Lemke (1998 286-287)
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NarraHand is designed via a series of technical
and expressive iterations that run from
2007-2011. Narrahand is funded by InterMedia as
part of our production-based inquiry into mobile
technolgies and their communicative uses Its
also part of the INVENTIO project (NFR
funded) into digital genres (in collaboration
with IMK, UiO)