Wittenoom: speculative shell and the cancerous breeze

Creative Work
Author: 
Year: 
2009
Publisher: 
Language: 
Platform/Software: 
Record Status: 
Tags: 
Description (in English): 

This award-winning responsive poem focuses on the Australian ghost town Wittenoom, abandoned due to toxic dust caused by asbestos mining. Each of its nine parts focuses on an aspect of the abandoned town and consists of an image from Wittenoom, generally portraying urban decay, an brief looping instrumental audio track, links to other parts of the poem, a title for the section, and a text accessible through different responsive interfaces. A brief parenthetical help text near the bottom left corner of each screen provides encouragement that hints at the interface, promting readers to explore the interactivity and intuit its internal logic. The thematic focus and consistent visual design pull the work together, while the varied interfaces lead to new explorations of the spaces, together producing an experience both jarring and immersive. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

I ♥ E-Poetry entry: 

Research Collection that references this work:

Critical writing that references this work:

Screen shots: 
The permanent URL of this page: 
Record posted by: 
Hannelen Leirvåg