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Rice
Rice is a hypertextual anthology of poems focusing on my experience as a Western tourist in Vietnam. Issues of colonialism, war, poverty, and cultural difference arise. Technically and aesthetically, Rice belongs to an early period of web-based poetry. It uses Shockwave, popup windows, and frames. (Source: Author description from ELC 1)
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.02.2011 - 19:11
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Enigma n
Described by the author as "an online philosophical poetry toy for poets and philosophers from the age of four up." The piece jumbles the letter of the word "meaning" in space, allowing the reader to manipulate their motion in space.
Published also on Macromedia's DHTML Zone, DOC(K)S (France), & Cauldron and Net.
Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 13:35
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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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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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Nightmare Wanders Father's Song
The four words that comprise the title--Nightmare, Wanders, Fathers, Song--are hidden in the black field of the opening screen, to be found by readers as they explore with cursors. The title thus changes from reader to reader. It may include all four words, as in "Song Wanders Fathers Nightmare," if the reader sticks around the opening screen long enough; or the title may simply be "Nightmare," or "Song," if the reader follows the first link found. You see the possibilities. In this new poem . . . Harrell brings a traditional lyric sensibility to the digital fields of hypertext poetry.
Scott Rettberg - 12.10.2011 - 11:44
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Mesostics for Dick Higgins (Print)
A series of poems written in honor of Fluxus artist, poet, printer, and musician, Dick Higgins (1938-1998) on the occasion of his death. Each poem is a mesostic built around the letters "DICK HIGGINS" using words extracted from Higgins' "foew&ombwhnw." An extremely limited release, 50 copies, Mesostics for Dick Higgins was printed under the Xerox Sutra Editions imprint and distributed at Higgins' funeral.
Davin Heckman - 03.02.2012 - 13:30
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Delivery Machine 01
The delivery machine sets a third horizon, a new and more mobile crust, above, beyond the earth itself, as well as civilization -- an umbrella of sorts that fills the air and activates the atmosphere. Consciousness expands, builds and binds to mock the elemental.
Meri Alexandra Raita - 23.02.2012 - 14:08
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Modern Mother
In Modern Mother storytelling is both the subject of the piece, as well as its form of delivery. Stamp conducted audio interviews with her mother in 1995, literally asking, “Tell me a story about your life.” What her mother tells is not a story but rather a series of stories, or fragments of stories, that make up the narrative of her life. The tales, like all family tales, reveal emotionally charged secrets: the dream to dance on stage, the experience of molestation, an abortion gone awry. The user can only access these stories by entering into a closet, the space where secrets are hidden. And it is the user who decides how much to hear. Do you want to know more about “D is for dream,” “H is for Hell,” or “O is for oozing”? The choice is yours. Stamp provides a cultural context to these very personal stories by juxtaposing them against the popular music of her mother’s era: pop culture representations of a romanticized life of love, intimacy, and family.
Scott Rettberg - 03.06.2012 - 12:02
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Bodybuilding
Bodybuilding is an interactive installation which ironically stages the relation between the body, technology, and language. The user is active in a bodybuilding machine. Moving the weights, he or she affects the text movement on the screen in front of him or her. The text consists of erotic fragments stored in a database and selected randomly according to the user’s action. Here, the body, being a consuming and styling object of the Techno-culture, serves—paradoxically in full action—for the imaginative access to the verbally mediated erotic world, where the body simultaneously is a central theme. However, during the reading process, the user’s hands have to remain above the blankets—i.e., on the machine. Beyond, the textual dialog simultaneously functions as a commentary on the user’s situation in the machine.
Source: p0es1s exhibition catalog record, 2004
Patricia Tomaszek - 07.07.2012 - 01:18
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Face Codes
The Face Codes, taken in Kyoto and Tokyo, are digital video stills that were later reworked and typified using identical parameters. The text running along the lower edge of the image, similar to subtitles in a non-synchronized film, represents the alphanumeric code of the respective image, which has been translated “back” into the Japanese code.
Source: Hubertus von Amelunxen (on author's project webiste)
Patricia Tomaszek - 09.10.2012 - 13:41
