[spectre] Schoolboy Daze. Nightingale's Playground

[marc garrett]

Sorry for any cross posting...

Schoolboy Daze. Nightingale's Playground

http://www.furtherfield.org/articles/schoolboy-daze-nightingales-playground

Edward Picot reviews Andy Campbell's four-part digital mystery-story, 
"Nightingale's Playground", which appeared online last year. "Campbell 
has always been at pains not to place his text in front of his images, 
or beneath them or to one side, like labels on tanks at the zoo or 
explanatory plaques next to pictures in a gallery; instead he puts his 
words inside his graphical environments, sometimes hidden or 
partially-hidden inside them, so that we have to explore to read. It 
pulls us in, and it makes his work inherently immersive and 
interactive... His central characters are often living in a reality with 
two layers: the "ordinary" everyday world which is mean, dull, shoddy 
and constricting, but relatively safe; and an inner or underlying 
reality which can only be glimpsed rather than viewed as a whole, 
possibly because it is so dangerous and frightening - a reality which 
emerges fitfully via dreams, games, imaginings and doodles."

"Andy Campbell is a UK writer who has been experimenting with new media 
fiction since the 1990s, when he started creating stories on floppy disc 
for the Commodore Amiga. By 2000, when I first came across him, he was 
working mainly in Flash and self-publishing the results on a website 
called "Digital Fiction". He has continued to produce one or two pieces 
of work per year ever since, latterly on a site called "Dreaming 
Methods". His output is invariably enigmatic, complex, densely-textured, 
dark in tone and technically highly-accomplished; and he has gradually 
established himself, certainly amongst his peers, as one of the leading 
exponents of the digital fiction form." Picot.

This article is co-published by The Hyperliterature Exchange 
(http://hyperex.co.uk/) and Furtherfield.org.

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