&Now 2015: Blast Radius

This creative/critical panel proposes to converse with fiction’s relationship to current visual culture(s). How does fiction adapt/transform/deform/resist social media, narrative television, cinema, and internet browsing to create new forms?  Does writing fiction necessarily mean wrestling with dominant visual modes? We’re interested in how technology is shifting the borders of the self, which seems to call for a different kind of fiction; whether current narrative modes restrict representations of states of being like happiness or contentment; and how fiction can look to other visual arts for inspiration in creating something dynamic and responsive.