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The Dreamlife of Letters
A Flash animation, based on a text by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, that attempts to explore the ground between classic concrete poetry, avant-garde feminist practice, and "ambient" poetics (that's really just plain fun to watch).
(Source: Author's Description from ELC Vol. 1)
Patricia Tomaszek - 16.09.2010 - 16:54
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88 Constellations for Wittgenstein (to be Played with the Left Hand)
Author description: 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein (to be played with the Left Hand) is an interactive, non-linear net.art piece that explores the life and philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein through a series of animated vignettes created in Flash. Each of the 88 sections corresponds to one of the 88 constellations in the night sky. Each constellation becomes a navigation device for the viewer to negotiate the associative relationships between these vignettes. As well, viewers can interact with each collaged animation using their left hand to trigger events from the computer keyboard (in homage to Ludwig Wittgenstein's brother Paul (a concert pianist who lost his right arm in WWI but continued his career performing piano works composed for the Left Hand). This work considers questions that Ludwig Wittgenstein pondered in his career as a philosopher: logic, language, the nature of thinking, and the limits of knowledge -- all in relation to our contemporary digital world.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 21.02.2011 - 16:02
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Bokstavlek
Bokstavlek kan karakteriseres som et estetisk verktøy som gjør brukeren i stand til å leke med bokstaver og ord. Brukeren kan selv velge hvilke bokstaver som skal danne ord og/eller utgjøre en tekst (et dikt eller en (kort) fortelling). Tekstene som produseres av brukeren blir presentert i et fast visuelt miljø bestående av noen lyktestolper i et landskap. Brukerens tekster inngår som audio-visuelle og dynamiske elementer i dette miljøet. Telefonlinjen mellom to telefonstolper står som en sentral indikasjon på at ordene og teksten som blir produsert, kan plasseres på denne linjen. Dersom brukeren følger denne antydningen, blir hver enkelt bokstav på telefonlinjen ved faste intervall omdannet til fugler som flyr i en sløyfe før den igjen lander på telefonlinjen og blir til en bokstav. (Kilde: Hans Kristian Rustad for elinor.nu)
Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.03.2011 - 13:28
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Carving in Possibilities
Carving in Possibilities is a short Flash piece. By moving the mouse, the user carves the face of Michelangelo's David out of speculations about David, the crowd watching David and Goliath, the sculptor, and the crowds viewing the sculpture.
(Source: author's description in ELC 1.)Eric Dean Rasmussen - 18.04.2011 - 13:28
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Strings
The author quotes Jim Andrews's description: "Strings is a playful series of Flash pieces about relationships. It also raises questions about the presence/absence of the hand in this medium. Visual artists often criticise the lack of presence of the hand in digital art. In Strings, the hand is and is not present, is transformed, is transforming, is writing, is written, coded. Tis morphed." (Source: Author description, ELC, vol. 1).
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 28.04.2011 - 14:40
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Landscapes
Landscapes presents five animated canvases which together comprise a dreamscape of anarchic play, urban order, and media saturation. Each landscape pairs a short Biblical proverb with a series of images taken from street protests, multimedia conferences, Hollywood films, and other private and public sites. The proverb in each of the landscapes scrolls on a loop across the screen and is "locked" in position behind a viewing portal. To read the proverb is to make do with the fractured characters visible through small holes in the portal.
(Source: Author description, ELC vol. 1).Eric Dean Rasmussen - 11.05.2011 - 09:16
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ii — in the white darkness: about [the fragility of] memory
Strasser and Coverley's visual poem is a multimedia meditation on the nature of memory. By choosing pulsing dots as if from behind a veil, the reader activates collages of photographs and ambient sounds, representing the process of trying to recover lost memories, which surface and fade in and out of intelligibility.
Scott Rettberg - 06.10.2011 - 10:36
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Jean-Pierre Balpe ou les Lettres Dérangées
Jean-Pierre Balpe ou les Lettres Dérangées was created as a homage to the poet and software developer Jean-Pierre Balpe. The title of the piece can be understood in a number of ways. In French, the word "letters" refers to the alphabet, mail correspondence, and also to the art of writing itself. The piece consists of a number of letters which are not all visible to the reader until the very end. The word "dérangé" has a number of meanings as well. One meaning is physical disturbance. The letters themselves are distorted, just as the meaning of letters and words became distorted when Balpe introduced the literary world to text generation. The word also means mental disturbance. Disturbed by the mouse passing over them, the letters unpredictably go in all directions without reason. The underlying algorithm brings the letters to madness. The actions of the reader turn the poem into a kind of game. The purpose of the game is to get to the end of the poem by playing with the letters without falling into any traps.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 08.11.2011 - 14:56
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While Chopping Red Peppers
Like the advice given by the speaker’s father, this kinetic and aural poem is all about “presentation and perfect arrangement.” It is about knowing where to cut visual and aural language, images and sound clips, arranging them on the poem’s space to make an impression. Yet while the speaker seems to be learning what her father has to say, one can sense the tension in her as she conforms to a vision of how one presents oneself and in what contexts. The masculinity of the images juxtaposed with the words “a firm handshake, after church” contrast with the more feminine figure we see leaning by the stove or hunched in silhouette. Listen to this poem and you’ll realize that it hovers in that space between tradition and innovation, expressive orality and through new media, conformity and rebellion, and different types of distance and proximity. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)
Meri Alexandra Raita - 03.03.2012 - 19:29
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Archetypal Africa
In this work, Bigelow takes everyday objects (stapler, chair, spoon) and elevates them to archetypal status through several strategies:
* short, looping background videos (with audio) of natural scenes, usually focused on animals or plants, intercut with brief images of the object being discussed.
* A poetic description of the object, using metaphor, personification, and other figurative language to highlight their function or role.
* A scheduled set of fake historical events involving the object, often absurd and hilarious, including the location and the date in which they happened.
This level of attention to everyday objects is parallel to Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons, but with a different approach to its language choices. While Stein chooses language that belongs to the same semantic frame of the objects she describes, Bigelow breaks (or blends) the frames to take a twist towards the absurd. These objects become archetypal because they are presented as tools that shape their creators as much as the world around them, connecting them to nature and humanity at a global level.
eabigelow - 28.06.2012 - 03:41
