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1. Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse

   Art "Buddy" Newkirk has disappeared and left you his literary estate. By the looks of it, he and his friends were a very odd bunch.

   You might have enjoyed knowing them. But you don't: why does "Uncle" Buddy think you do? Where is he, anyway? And what does this have to do with Meister Eckhart and the New York City subway?

   To find out, you'll have to pop the floppies into your Mac, drop the tapes into your boombox, and get ready to meet Buddy's friends, read his email, listen to his band, and sort out his (very strange) Tarot deck.

   (Source: Eastgate catalog description)

   Hypercard on computer discs with two casettes, a letter, and photocopied article.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 07.02.2011 - 12:42

2. Listening Post

   Listening Post is an art installation by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin that culls text fragments in real time from thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums. The texts are read (or sung) by a voice synthesizer, and simultaneously displayed across a suspended grid of more than two hundred small electronic screens.

   Listening Post cycles through a series of six movements, each a different arrangement of visual, aural, and musical elements, each with it’s own data processing logic.

   Dissociating the communication from its conventional on-screen presence, Listening Post is a visual and sonic response to the content, magnitude, and immediacy of virtual communication.

   (Source: Post by Ben Rubin on EAR Studio website, no longer available.)

   Listening Post was displayed internationally between 2002-2006 and is now part of the collections of The London Science Museum, London, UK and The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, USA.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 07.02.2011 - 15:52

3. Translation

   Author description: Translation (version 5) investigates iterative procedural "movement" from one language to another. Translation developed from an earlier work, Overboard. Both pieces are examples of literal art in digital media that demonstrate an "ambient" time-based poetics. As it runs the same algorithms as Overboard, passages within translation may be in one of three states — surfacing, floating, or sinking. But they may also be in one of three language states, German, French, or English. If a passage drowns in one language it may surface in another. The main source text for translation is extracted from Walter Benjamin's early essay, "On Language as Such and on the Language of Man." (Trans. Edmund Jephcott and Kingsley Shorter. One-Way Street and Other Writings. 1979. London: Verso, 1997. 107-23.) Other texts from Proust may also, less frequently, surface in the original French, and one or other of the standard German and English translations of In Search of Lost Time. The generative music for translation was developed in collaboration with Giles Perring who did the composition, sound design, performance, and recording of the sung alphabets.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 08.02.2011 - 17:12

4. First Screening: Computer Poems

   A suite of a dozen kinetic poems programmed in Apple BASIC. Later, as the first versions became inaccessible, the works were recreated in HyperCard in the early 1990s (after bpNichol's death), and then in 2007 recreated in javascript for the web, and simultaneously the original BASIC and Hypercard files were republished for download.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 08.02.2011 - 21:04

5. e-cris

   e-cris est un dispositif textuel et graphique de lecture-écriture "dans le même mouvement". Le principe du lien hypertextuel est ici détourné de ses fonctions habituelles de navigation au profit d'une activité d'écriture à partir de vingt et un textes personnels qui disent - un peu - de l'activité d'écrire. e-cris devait à l'origine s'hybrider avec le dispositif de saturation graphique saturactions selon certaines règles de conditions. On peut voir ce système embryonnaire dans la version 1.7 de e-cris, mais je ne l'ai pas poussé plus loin, préférant conduire les deux essais séparément. Cliquer sur un mot revient à l'écrire dans un autre texte - le texte-à-écrire - placé sous le texte-à-lire. Le texte écrit l'est donc seulement à partir d'un autre et selon le procédé littéraire du centon (ici à l'échelle du mot et non de la phrase). Que pourrez-vous écrire de personnel avec mes mots ? Luc Dall'Armellina - 2001

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 09.02.2011 - 12:22

6. Faith

   Faith is a kinetic poem that reveals itself in five successive states. Each new state is overlaid onto the previous one, incorporating the old text into the new. Each new state absorbs the previous one while at the same time engaging in an argument with it. The gradual textual unfolding is choreographed to music.

   (Source: Author description.)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 10.02.2011 - 14:29

7. forking paths

   This work was an early experiment with literary hypertext that has been discussed or mentioned in several early theoretical texts, but that has never been published in full because it mostly consists of text from Borges' short story "The Garden of Forking Paths". Moulthrop describes it as "a sort of low-grade literary pastiche concocted as a laboratory demonstration--or parlor game--for an undergraduate writing class in 1987." Documentation of the work, with most of the text from Borges' short story removed, is published on the CD that accompanies Montfort and Wardrip-Fruin's New Media Reader.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 11.02.2011 - 10:35

8. Nightingale's Playground

   Andy Campbell and Judi Alston’s The Nightingale’s Playground is a digital fiction work that was created with Flash in 2010. The main character is Carl Robertson, who tries to figure out what has happened to his lost high-school friend Alex Nightingale. The piece leads the reader/player through a world experienced from Carl’s perspective. It consists of four individual parts, the first section “Consensus”, an interactive point- and click game that can be played online, downloadable “Consensus II” which transports the reader into a dark 3D flat with text snippets , the “Fieldwork book” is a browser based grungy sketchbook with puzzling notes and the last part is a PDF version of the story.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 12.02.2011 - 18:43

9. Dakota

   Big black capital letters on white background, one, two or three words at a time, scheduled to match the beat of the music.
   The piece is based on a close reading of Ezra Pound's Cantos I and first part of II.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.02.2011 - 10:44

10. Senghor on the Rocks

    Senghor on the Rocks (SOTR) was published online under a creative commons license as the first novel illustrated with Google Maps. Every page of the virtual book that was created for the online presentation of the novel is accompanied by a satellite view of the current location of the story. Readers experience the novel’s action as a journey on the map, including smooth panning from location to location as the characters travel around or different zoom levels showing areas in close detail or as an overview. The novel itself is written in German and deals with an involuntary journey of young assistant cameraman Martin “Chi” Tschirner taking him through Dakar and the Senegal. In the first chapters Chi is busy shooting a promotional film in Dakar and does not care too much about where he is or what the city he is hurrying through may be like – other than loud, dirty and inscrutable. Chi doesn’t like his job or the people he works with too much and the routines of his work prevent him from seeing the world instead of a series of changing locations requiring different light filters and lenses.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 16.02.2011 - 14:37

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