1) The title of the work. Screen 2) The names and email addresses of all authors and contributors of the work. Noah Wardrip-Fruin Josh Carroll Robert Coover Shawn Greenlee Andrew McClain Benjamin "Sascha" Shine 3) The URL where you are going to make your .zip file available for us to download. http://www.noahwf.com/newtemp/4elc/screen.zip 4) A short description of the work - less than 200 words in length. Screen is an alternative literary game created in the "Cave," a room-sized virtual reality display. It begins with reading and listening. Texts, presenting moments of memory as a virtual experience, appear on the Cave's walls, surrounding the reader. Then words begin to come loose. The reader finds she can knock them back with her hand, and the experience becomes a kind of play — as well-known game mechanics are given new form through bodily interaction with text. At the same time, the language of the text, together with the uncanny experience of touching words, creates an experience that doesn't settle easily into the usual ways of thinking about gameplay or VR. Words peel faster and faster, struck words don't always return to where they came from, and words with nowhere to go can break apart. Eventually, when too many are off the wall, the rest peel loose, swirl around the reader, and collapse. Playing "better" and faster keeps this at bay, but longer play sessions also work the memory text into greater disorder through misplacements and neologisms. 5) Any instructions required to operate the work. The files included with this submission are documentation of the work, requiring now special instructions. If this submission is accepted, more material (described below) might be included on the disk, requiring special instructions. 6) The date the work was first distributed or published. 2003 (SGI Cave version), 2005 (Linux Cave version), 2007 (Linux single-screen version) = Additional Notes = If this is accepted, I have higher resolution video. A version can be generated of the right size for the Collection disk. The video was created by Michelle Higa , who should be credited. The video documents the SGI Cave version, before Ben Shine was an author. The images are photographs of the same version taken by Josh Carroll, and should be credited. Also, if this is accepted, I would like to include some version (or some subset) of the source code and media files. Finally, it is possible that, before the disk is published, Damon Baker will have created a version of Screen for the descendant of Brown's CaveWriting system. This could also be included.