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1. What We Will

   (wot we will hv of wot we r smthing past)

   'What we Will' utilises the potential of QuickTime interactive movie formats, particularly its photographic panoramas. This is combined with live-recorded and composed soundscapes which are embedded in the navigable movies. Structuring the piece, there are further layers of dramatic, textual and literal art elements. There is also a more familiar exploration of dramatic potential through human characters, fragmentary personal histories, memories and secrets, all helping to construct a non-linear narrative and emotional structure. As we experience the 24-hour cycle of their day, we are uncertain as to whether any particular moment follows or, rather, proceeds what we have seen before.

   Scott Rettberg - 24.05.2011 - 21:34

2. Tafel/Blackboard

   1993/94 und 1999

   Vor einer alten Wandtafel - auf der noch Spuren weggewischter Kreide erkennbar sind - ist ein Monitor auf Schienen befestigt. Ein Betrachter kann diesen Monitor horizontal und vertikal verschieben. Dabei fährt der Monitor über Wörter und Sätze, die auf der realen Tafel nicht zu sehen sind. Fährt der Monitor über eine Position, an der vorher ein Wort stand, befindet sich hier jetzt ein anderes Wort. Die Wörter und Sätze sind Zitate und Zitatfragmente, die aus dem Themenkomplex Erinnerung/Text/Abbild stammen. Sie wurden von unterschiedlichen Personen mit Kreide auf die Tafel geschrieben, fotografiert, digitalisiert und dann wieder von der Tafel gewischt. Der Computer ordnet zufällig die Zitate verschiedenen Positionen auf der Tafel zu.

   (Source: Project site)

    

   Scott Rettberg - 24.05.2011 - 21:53

3. The Minotaur Project

   The Minotaur Project is a cluster of four poems fused with image, movement and sound. It is part of a hypermedia novel in verse that explores contemporary issues of identity using the framework of classical myth. Minotaur appears as a fragmented persona confined in the computer’s labyrinth. It attempts to understand self and others (specifically Kore, the main character in this verse novel) without that primary means of connection to the sensate world, the body.

   Scott Rettberg - 26.05.2011 - 17:10

4. With Love, from a Failed Planet

    A satirical piece of netart featuring multiple short fictions detailing the failure of well-known, contemporary institutions, primarily corporations such as Apple, IKEA, and CNN, though corporatized political entities (Canada, France, and the White House) and individuals (author Neil Gaiman) are also ribbed. Readers access the prose narratives by hovering over iconographic logos, affixed to a rotating, transparent globe. A minimalist, electronic soundtrack, reminiscent of those used in planetarium productions from the late 1970s and early 1980s, enhances the work's retro-futurist commentary on the factors leading to obsolescence in the capitalist world-system. 

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 28.05.2011 - 09:55

5. him

   “Him” is a hypertext poem where the lines lead to different aspects of male identity cut out of magazines and the reader becomes lost in the permutation.

   (Source: Author's description in State of the Arts CD)

   Scott Rettberg - 28.05.2011 - 12:17

6. Nepabunna

   Nepabunna uses remote sensing data from the Landsat 5 satellite as the starting point, then progresses to a mythopoeia of contemporary technology (using Australian Aboriginal themes) and finally cites string theory as an example of the nexus between science/beauty/truth. Poetry and digital media combine to examine this nexus.

   (Source: Author's description for the 2001 Electronic Literature Awards)

   Scott Rettberg - 30.05.2011 - 12:14

7. Translucidity

   Translucidity is essentially an appendix to Lexia to Perplexia. Though both pieces deal with network phenomenology, where Lexia to Perplexia primarily deals with network attachment, Translucidity deals with issues of faciality.

   Scott Rettberg - 30.05.2011 - 13:26

8. The Many Voices of Saint Catarina of Pedemont

   This work employs animation, sound, graphics, and navigation as semiotic components working together with words to create multiple interpretive layers focusing on the spiritual preactices of a fictional medieval mystic, Saint Caterina. As the different voices offer varying perspectives, the user is immersed in a richly imaged and layered topography where the church hierarchy, academic scholars, the mass of believerss, and the female saint contest for the meaning and significance of her mystical experiences

   (Source: N. Katherine Hayles, "Deeper into the Machine: the Future of Electronic Literature", State of the Arts)

   Scott Rettberg - 30.05.2011 - 13:57

9. Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day

   Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day is a contemporary/ancient narrative of death and rebirth on the Nile.  It is an account of Egypt that draws upon history, geography, hieroglyphics, legend and myth to tell a contemporary story of a woman searching for her brother that mirrors the eternal story of the ancient Egyptian spiritual journey.  It explores the interface between image and text - the ways, in hypermedia, that narrative information is not only contained in the text, but also coded into graphics, sound, structure, and navigational elements. Egypt celebrates the natural materiality of both hieroglyphic writing and electronic literature. Egyptian hieroglyphic writing is inherently hypertextual and hypermedial. In ancient times, the surfaces of temples, coffins, and tombs were covered with a narrative writing/art that was a complex linkage of the literal, metaphorical, and schematic aspects of the central spiritual ideas of the culture.

   Artist’s Statement: 

   Scott Rettberg - 30.05.2011 - 14:25

10. _][ad][Dressed in a Skin C.ode_

    _][ad][Dressed in a Skin C.ode_ ho.][email][list.ically documents select phases of the mezangelle language system and its ][r][evolution[1995-2001]. the texts presented here act as residual traces from net.wurk practices that thrive, react N shift according 2 fluctuations in the online environment in which they ][initially][ gestated.

    (Source: Author's description)

    Publised in Beehive 5.1 (06.2002), also hosted at The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at Virginia Tech

    Scott Rettberg - 30.05.2011 - 16:02

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