A Twine-AI-Visual-Novel. An experiment in elegy, Infinity +1 is an ongoing memory project developed in Twine.  This is a work in progress without a projected end, hence the allusion to The Thousand and One Nights in the title.  Every family has layers of intersecting stories, voices, memories. Some are shared here.

All images were created with Midjourney, an AI and machine learning image generator using text prompts as an experiment in style, period, and affect. Sometimes, the beauty of the images has seeded new storylines. The conversation between memories, voices, AI, images, is ongoing.

Props to Chris Klimas for the beautiful new Chapbook Story Format. 

A design demo & homage to so many for formative artistry & insights on interactive storytelling I'll be sharing with students this fall & future:

The frame tales of the Thousand and One Nights for the narrative gestures  to stories and storyworlds not yet shared

Ted Chiang's "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate"

Geoffrey Long's expansion of 'negative capability' (PhD)

Steve Coulson for his inspiring Midjourney AI generated 'Summer Island'

Caitlin Fisher's These Waves of Girls

Jena Habegger-Conti's dissertation exploration of Infinity Plus One and narrative arabesques in the Thousand and One Nights, Borges, Calvino, Barthes and Rushdie 

Borges & Cortazar for narrative infinities, labyrinths, and embedded tales

Rushdie's Sea of Stories

The game developer I was on a panel with once who spoke of designing for the middle

The many many folks I got to work & play with exploring interactive storytelling through the years at the Canadian Film Centre's Media Lab, and the faculty with whom I explored the possibilities of interactive narrative design in the interactive feature film, Late Fragment.

My dad. March 22 2022. My mom. February 1 2022. St. Brigid's Day.

My aunts, the keepers of stories. Stories I reimagine because I always forget to write them down.

Jeremy Hight. Wish you were here.

............. so so so many more to add............

This project is in beta & will continue to be expanded and refined. 

If you find a glitch, let me know.

Talk: "Infinity +1 and Infinite Eddies" MIX Storytelling in Immersive Media, British Library. July 7, 2023.

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