Lynn Hershman "Fantacy Beyond Control"

In "Fantacy Beyond Control", Lynn Hershman discusses the idea of hyper nonlinear narrative through using the computer as a medium of the 21st century. She explains how any other medium can’t serve the same function because for example books are linear in telling a narrative or a story. Another privilige that the computer has as Hershman emphasizes in her article is the amazing interaction and participation that happens between the medium and the viewer, or I should say the interactor. It’s a story that is created through the participator’s decision making process and it requires all the attention from the person to make the choices. And what makes the person more attached to the story or experience is that he/she has the control to decide the characters destiny and sequence of events as if the interactors are actually the characters in the story or the game. Hershman scientifically explains how the interactor uses the brain when engaging in such experiences so he/she can fully be into that fantacy and out of reality world.
It is really interesting that the person can be in a totally different world, communicating with unexpected random characters, and experience all sorts of emotions and feelings while s/he is sitting in his/her home or office. But to be able to create this successful virtual environment that can drag the person from his own world to another world and make him participate in it needs a lot of effort and collaboration to make it as realistic and believable as possible. As Hershman states that she collaborated with different artists, musicians, and film makers in order to achieve the level that she desired is her past successful projects.