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lens
lens began as a study piece relating to work-in-progress for the four-wall VR Cave at Brown University. It demonstrates how literal materiality - the surfaces of letters composing the texts of 'lens' itself - can, in a simple illusory 3D space, subvert our familiar experiences and assumptions concerning surfaces of inscription. For example, by making a letter large enough within the programmatic structures of lens, the region of colour defining the letter-shape becomes an entirely different type of surface - it becomes a surface of inscription for other texts that had been perceived 'underlying' it. In doing so, literal surfaces subvert our experience of space and relative distance. Surfaces that were 'in front' now form surfaces for other texts. They may even become other 'spaces' within which writing drifts. Letters both delineate and redefine spatial relationships.
Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 13:53
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Paddle
“Paddle” builds upon the previous poem but emphasizing the phonic dimension of language both with the words and the animation. This poem consists of five words, only four of which we can see. The initial word establishes the setting, the second word provides a visual stream of a letter that causes and forms a new onomatopoeic word, the third word transforms the word into something else entirely but its animation focuses the frame of reference. The final word is the payoff as Hennessy creates a disconnect between the spelled word and its animation. It is by reading it aloud that we realize that the animation is referencing a homophone— the fifth word in the sequence, which is both visible, invisible, and audible.
Truly “verbivocovisual.”
From I ♥ E-Poetry
Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 14:10
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vowheels
A simple kinetic poem, in which the vowels move on a recombinatory wheel.
Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 14:22
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Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 14:35
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Anipoems
Anipoems is a series of kinetic poetry making use of animated gifs.
Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 15:05
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Shadows From Another Place
Shadows from Another Place is a series of “transposed maps” using Global Positioning System coordinates, maps, city sites and the web to translate and represent the impact of political or cultural traumas – such as wars or shifts in borders and territorial boundaries – that take place in one location, upon another. Collapsing distinctions between “foreign” or “domestic,” these hybrid spaces erase the safety of geographic distance and portray the impact of political, social and cultural change in local terms/on local ground.
San Francisco <-> Baghdad, the first in the series, maps the missile and bombs sites in Baghdad, Iraq from the first U.S. invasion in March, 2003, upon San Francisco, California, a city nicknamed by some of its residents, “Baghdad by the Bay.” Each mirrored site of impact in San Francisco is documented with photographs, maps and GPS coordinates, the same technology used by the miltary to target original sites in Baghdad.
Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 16:27
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text.curtain
'text.curtain' explores relationships between poetic text and ludic play via an interactively evolving recombinant text. Projected on a wall-size screen, text.curtain presents a physics-based 'spring-mass' interface that organically responds to the interactions of multiple simultaneous users. As the piece is disrupted and letters wash back and forth, a granular synthesis engine provides realtime aural feedback. Tension is created through the simultaneous desire of users to both disrupt the existing text via 'play' and to 'read' the piece as it evolves and recombines in response.
Scott Rettberg - 24.05.2011 - 11:56
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The Legible City
In The Legible City the visitor is able to ride a stationary bicycle through a simulated representation of a city that is constituted by computer-generated three-dimensional letters that form words and sentences along the sides of the streets. Using the ground plans of actual cities - Manhattan, Amsterdam and Karlsruhe - the existing architecture of these cities is completely replaced by textual formations written and compiled by Dirk Groeneveld. Travelling through these cities of words is consequently a journey of reading; choosing the path one takes is a choice of texts as well as their spontaneous juxtapositions and conjunctions of meaning.
Scott Rettberg - 24.05.2011 - 12:14
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The Distributed Legible City
A later version of The Legible City (1989) encompasses all the experiences offered by the original version, but introduces an important new multi-user functionality that to a large extent becomes its predominant feature. In the Distributed Legible City there are two or more bicyclists at remote locations who are simultaneously present in the virtual environment.They can meet each other (by accident or intentionally), see abstracted avatar representations of each other, and when they come close to each other they can verbally communicate with each other.
While the Distributed Legible City shows the same urban textual landscape as the original Legible City, this database now takes on a new meaning. The texts are no longer the sole focus of the user's experience, but instead becomes the con_text (both in terms of scenery and content) for the possible meetings and resulting conversations (meta_texts) between the bicyclists. In this way a rich new space of co-mingled spoken and readable texts is generated. In other words the artwork changes from being merely a visual experience, into becoming a visual ambiance for social exchange between visitors to that artwork.
Scott Rettberg - 24.05.2011 - 12:23
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases
The story starts in 1928 with the finding of Uranium in Colo- rado, and ends in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. It tells the adventures of a man, Tulse Luper, a writer and project-maker who spent his life “under lock and key” in several parts of the world and archived his life in 92 suitcases. Tuned to the author’s characteristic style, it is an encyclopedic project, but one that responds in a unique way to the stimuli of new visual languages and narrative formats. Because of this, it is accomplished in different media (a television series, numerous DVDs, movie trilogy, VJing performance, web site, online game, a library of 92 books, various theater events and exhibitions).
(Description from Giselle Beiguelman, "The Reader, the Player and the Executable Poetics: Towards a Literature Beyond the Book")
Scott Rettberg - 24.05.2011 - 21:13
