Intergrams

From the Eastgate Systems, Inc. advertisement:

"Intergrams introduces us to a new species in the word forest, an infinity of possibilities, an arena with structure that is still open, that behaves, that invites. Intergrams is the exact analog of the idea that the domain of music is anything which may be heard, or that the domain of the visual arts is anything which may be seen. Intergrams is not an injection or gift of someone else's wisdom, but connections that were there for you to make all along, entirely yours, connections that spring forward with the impetus of the energy of the work. In Intergrams, space replaces time as the fundamental dimension-set for text as opposed to speech. Complex links between parts of the written text separated widely in space are simply drawn directly. The method of directly, graphically linking the pieces of text by a relationship is used for the syntax itself."

(Source: Eastgate catalogue)

Intergrams is a series of digital poems published in the first issue of The Eastgate quarterly review of hypertext. Intergrams does not aim at semantic coherence or memeatic-imaginary comprehension in the reader. Instead it is driven by the idea of using hypertext as a "medium of thought". (Rosenberg 1996). When first opening the program the users only see a cluster of many phrases (see screenshot under). The users are able to interact with the work by moving the mouse around the screen, by doing this the user can make each phrase in the cluster of phrases appear by itself. Making it readable.