My final project will focus on the power aspect between reader and creator, that before this class I never really considered before. I’ll also be touching on power in relation to access. I will be doing a creative project that brings together both the digital and physical. Mark Marino’s and Borges’s works are especially pertinent to this project in terms of inspiration. Borsuk’s and Bouse’s work, Between Page and Screen, is also influential as it points to the access part of my project.

nteracting physically with an archive, and subsequent forms of literature, is a form of power exchange between the reader and creator with the physical object acting as the transmission point between the two. It’s where terms are negotiated by each individual. On the one hand, the reader chooses what to read, where to go, and what to do. And on the other hand, the creator makes the paths, sets the guidelines, and can restrict access. This project brings those power exchanges and struggles to the forefront of the individual’s mind through an interactive experience that allows them to reflect on their discovery journey through a piece with many different branches, where not all of the materials are provided to them. They have the power to actively fulfill all of the requests of the author, or actively resist those requests. Either the readers get the full experience or they won’t, all depending on their available resources (like time, money, creativity) and determination.