This paper was written and presented as a hypertext, written in Tinderbox. This is the opening node:

In this hypertext I intend to explore four key tropes of what I'm going to provisionally label as 'digital environmenting' and their relationship to the idea of an affective atlas - or an atlas of affect. These tropes are intensity, vector, and the virtual and actual. These terms are based on a proposition for an affective atlas written by my colleagues where they stated "[an affective atlas] has intensities of the virtual and actual".

To this extent this essay perhaps offers little that is specific to the concept of an affective atlas, but is instead a sketching of the epistemological zeitgeist that informs the philosophical baggage that informs one facet of an affective atlas project. It is the projects intellectual and philosophical 'back story'.

Contemporary theory in its approach to digital media has largely relied upon traditional notions of story and narrative to understand the similarities and differences afforded by digital media. While this work has been invaluable it has emphasised the ways in which things like hypertext may, or may not be, story like and so has examined the new roles of the reader (Douglas 1994; Douglas 2000), and the implications for multilinearity for story sense. (Bolter 1991; Joyce 1995; Joyce 1995; Joyce 1995; Aarseth 1997; Gaggi 1997; Bernstein 1998; Dovey 2002; Landow 2006) However, emerging dominant digital forms juxtapose highly local content and practices with system wide and global combinatory systems.

These are the slides (as pdf) of the report I gave at the Affective Atlas 01 Symposium at RMIT in October 2007. The affective atlas is a large research project to investigate and prototype alternative geoknowledge tools, and this report is on a field trip with honours students where we collected media samples to make a prototype atlas using a GoogleMap.

Slides from a brief introduction at the Affective Atlas 01 Symposium (Melbourne, October 2007) outlining why the larger project is entitled "affective atlas". Uses Deleuze's concept of affect and applies it to a digital atlas.

Online interactive video has a 'facetted' model where each shot (and each part of each shot) instead of only having a single possibility of connection with another shot or sequence now has multiple facets. These slides describe this (essay is in the works, as is interactive video essay).