Search

The search found 25 results in 0.008 seconds.

Search results

1. Birds Singing Other Birds' Songs

   Author description: This work originated when I was invited to exhibit at the Medway Galleries. The most interesting features of the gallery were its high ceiling and three large windows, which I was inspired to use in the work. I wanted to explore kinetic typography, the animation of images and sound. I came across a transcription of birds' songs in the book The Thinking Ear. Suddenly, I was drawn to this transcription because of the similarities with the phonemes I was using in my other works. The repetitive aspect of letters and what looked like syllables reminded me of sound poems. So, I decided to ask some singers to sing their own interpretation of the transcriptions of the songs, in order to play with the interpretative process of these translations. Having been translated first from birds' song into linguistic interpretations, now the birdsongs would be re-interpreted by the human voice. The sounds that emerged from this study were later attached to the animated birds in the shape of calligrams. The outlines and letters of the text birds corresponded to the transcribed sound made by each bird, so making the birds sing their own visual-textual compositions.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 17.02.2011 - 11:35

2. Wordscapes and Letterscapes

   Author description: Letterscapes is a collection of twenty-six interactive typographic landscapes, encompassed within a dynamic, dimensional environment. Wordscapes is a collection of reactive one-word poem landscapes, one for each letter of the alphabet.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 21.02.2011 - 15:06

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. vowheels

   A simple kinetic poem, in which the vowels move on a recombinatory wheel.

   Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 14:22

7. Anipoems

   Anipoems is a series of kinetic poetry making use of animated gifs.

   Scott Rettberg - 23.05.2011 - 15:05

8. No matter

   No matter

   Giovanna Di Rosario - 22.09.2011 - 17:21

9. Archives Zaroum

   The project is a reworking of Cia Rinnes' print collection of visual and concrete poetry zaroum, published in 2001. It consists of 29 animated and interactive visual poems, using kinetic typography and small, simple line drawings.

   Rasmus Kaas Andersen - 18.10.2011 - 13:50

10. Softies

    Softies is a series of animated, typographic poems created with the Mr. Softie vector typographics
    editor. The author describes these works as “wrinkled squirming typographic poems (fresh in 2009).”
    Because of its malleable form, the work forces the user to move and engage with it. The ongoing
    reshaping of the words and the ambient music playing in the background add to its hypnotic quality.

    (Source: Description from the Electronic Literature Exhibit at the MLA 12)

    Meri Alexandra Raita - 27.01.2012 - 11:34

Pages