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Juvenate (Narrative/mouse game)
Juvenate is a collection of 'mouse over' images that change and adapt to the way that your mouse interacts with them - though there is no need for clicking. The images sense that the mouse is there and take you through a journey.
The narrative starts with a man, who is dying, and explores his life now that he has been isolated from the world around him in his hospital bed.
"Every day, your presence wears grooves into someone's heart. Death turns these into memory-beds, where love and sorrow collect and comfort one another. JUVENATE is an interactive narrative that unfolds in a progression of poignantly beautiful moments from one man's life.
Our journey is through a serious illness and moves toward death or rejuvenation. Many different pathways and experiences are available to explore. The elliptical structure imitates the selective and non-linear nature of memory
Our challenge is to find the extraordinary in the everyday; the warmth of sun on your face, the thwack of a ball meeting your swing, the weight of a favourite coffee cup resting in your hand, the embrace of a child.
Juvenate's design subverts user expectations about interactivity. There are no mouse clicks, menus, tests or tricks. Interaction is gentle, leisurely, and meditative. Subtle pleasures await the unhurried visitor."
(http://wro2000.wrocenter.pl/html/exhib_juvenate_en.html)
"Some of the pictures can be interpreted as sensory perceptions, others as memories, and still others as dreams, visions, and fantasies. This is not a physical space experienced by a mobile body, but an alternative reality created by a feverish mind - the only space left open for exploration when the body is tied to a hospital bed."
The work was created for the Australian Films Commission in 1999 and "takes the user through 37 pictorial screens". These memories and visions can be navigated by slowly, calmly working through the program, but there is also a map option for users to revisit certain areas of the narrative. "the movements of the cursor animate the still pictures, making images emerge from the deep."
http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/firstperson/juvenile
This website has been created for educational purposes only, for the module of Authorship & Interaction at the University of Westminster.
BA(HONS)Graphic Communication Design; Kirsten Adams; W1552277
Unfortunately Juvenate is no longer available online and has to be explored via a CD-ROM.
Although I can't actually assess the way the narrative works myself, reading these descriptions and articles about the 'play through' of juvenate has helped, as it is something I am interested into incorporating into my processing to 'Get meaning into the image.'
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