La littérature américaine est en mouvement constant. Elle cherche des pistes, des issues et des histoires évoquant ou transgressant la réalité. Depuis l’arrivée des premiers colons, l’influence des auteurs européens ne s’est jamais démentie sur les futurs natifs d’une terre en pleine expansion. Progressivement voué à l’exploration et à la découverte de l’intériorité de l’homme, l’auteur décrit les multiples évolutions métamorphosant la terre et les consciences. S’affranchir des lieux communs afin de s’approcher au plus près du mythe ultime – à savoir le « Grand Roman américain » – est une manière pour les écrivains du Nouveau Monde d’entrer dans la légende en s’appropriant le langage. Grâce à Jack London et la Beat Generation, écrire est synonyme de témoignage, la langue étant perpétuellement à réinventer. Libérer l’écriture de ses entraves est bien plus qu’un simple projet, c’est en quelque sorte un moyen d’émanciper la page. Du voyage clandestin dans les wagons de marchandises à la glorification du verbe neuf, la route tient toute ses promesses. / American literature is a constant flux. It is looking for new paths, exits and stories evoking or transgressing reality. Since the arrival of the first settlers, the influence of European authors on the future natives of this always-expanding country has never waned. As he progressively devoted himself to the discovery and exploration of the interiority of Man, the author has described the multiple evolutions which transformed both the land and the minds. Freeing oneself from commonplace ideas in order to get closer to the ultimate myth – that is, the “Great American Novel” – is a way for the writers of the New World to go down in history by taking full ownership of the language itself. Thanks to Jack London and the Beat Generation, writing has become a byword for testimony, as the language has continuously been reinvented. Freeing writing from its shackles is much more than a simple project, it is a way to liberate the novel. From illegal trips in freight cars to the glorification of a new Word, the road has kept all its promises.

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Occlusion is a procedurally randomized interactive art experience which uses the motifs of repetition, isolation, incongruity and mutability to develop an experience of a Folie àDeux: a madness shared by two. It draws from traditional video game forms, development methods, and tools to situate itself in context with games as well as other forms of interactive digital media. In this way, Occlusion approaches the making of game-like media from the art criticism perspective of Materiality, and the written work accompanying the prototype discusses critical aesthetic concerns for Occlusion both as an art experience borrowing from games and as a text that can be academically understood in relation to other practices of media making. In addition to the produced software artifact and written analysis, this thesis includes primary research in the form of four interviews with artists, authors, game makers and game critics concerning Materiality and dissociative themes in game-like media. The written work first introduces Occlusion in context with other approaches to procedural remixing, Glitch Art, net.art, and analogue and digital collage and décollage, with special attention to recontextualization and apophenia. The experience, visual, and audio design approach of Occlusion is reviewed through a discussion of explicit design choices which define generative space. Development process, release process, post-release distribution, testing, and maintenance are reviewed, and the paper concludes with a description of future work and a post- mortem discussion. Included as appendices are a full specification document, script, and transcripts of all interviews.