Voice Inside My Head
"Voice Inside My Head" is a poetic investigation into the internal monologue that occurs after an emotional crisis. There is a tendency to argue with oneself, re-explain events, playing out alternate scenarios. This flashing text-image appears to the eye as a jumble, but the mind naturally arranges and patterns the words until a voice emerges as if from an internal monologue. The mind makes use of memory after-image to form meaning, similar to how meaning is formed from a jumbled recollection of events. Whirlpools of thoughts spin in a loop for a time before eventually letting go and moving on.
Physical Description: LCD flatscreen behind a standard photographic matte embedded in a picture frame. The flatscreen is activated by laptop computer components that are also embedded in the frame.
(Source: artist's website)
Teaching Resource that references this work:
Resource | Author | Teaching Resource Type | Year |
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Digital Poetry and the Limits of Interpretation (ENGL 5559) | Lori Emerson | Syllabus | 2010 |