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If Flora petrinsularis [a new media art work byJean-Louis Boissier] uses the loop to comment on cinema's visual realism, The Databank of the Everyday [a new media art work by Natalie Bookchin] suggests that the loop can be a new narrative form appropriate for the computer age. In an ironic manifesto that parodies their avant-garde precursors from the earlier part of the century, Bookchin reminds us that the loop gave birth not only to cinema but also to computer programming. Programming involves altering the linear flow of data through control structures, such as "if/then" and "repeat/while"; the loop is the most elementary of these control structures. (Manovich 1999, p. 189.)
Adrian Miles: Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
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