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1. my body — a Wunderkammer

   The author and artist Shelley Jackson has produced a corpus of work in print and electronic media that takes as its central focus the relationship between human identity and the body's constituent organs, fluids, connective tissues, and other parts. While her well-known Storyspace hypertext Patchwork Girl revisited the Frankenstein story from the viewpoint of a female monster, my body uses the HTML hypertext form to revitalize the memoir genre. As the reader selects elegantly drawn woodcut images of parts of the author's body, meditations and anecdotes associated with each body part are revealed.

   (Source: Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One)

   Patricia Tomaszek - 24.02.2011 - 17:39

2. Wired

   This video poem presents a nightmarish image of a body that seems to be inspired by Hellraiser and The Matrix. A sitting skeletal naked body with an umbilical-like cord connected to his heart and a screen for a face, inside of which a face grotesquely screams, apparently in pain or a trance (or both) seems to be the speaker for the poem. The verbal part of the poem is delivered entirely by audio, and through electronically distorted voices. The pain in the lyric cyborg speaker for this poem raises questions about medical technologies that artificially extend human life through painful surgical procedures that insert devices like pacemakers to regulate biorhythms. Has this character become posthuman?

   (Source: Leonardo Flores)

   Kjetil Buer - 31.08.2012 - 10:26

3. Soul

   Miles away from your average Valentine’s Day e-card, this poem superposes pithy language about sex and love on a video of a large black fish breathing through its gills as the words float before it. The sounds and image are not in the least romantic, yet reinforce the idea of embodiment, put forth in such beneficial terms.

   (Source: Leonardo Flores)

   Helene Helgeland - 29.10.2012 - 14:48

4. Broken

   This poem is constructed around an erotic scenario between two recurring characters in Sondheim’s writing: Nikuko “a Russian ballet dancer” and Dr. Leopold Konninger. From the loading frame in this Flash piece, we are provided a point of view as if we’re the computer and are about to enter Sondheim’s imagination, and the audio doesn’t set this up as a comforting prospect. The poem seems to be designed to disturb as images of fragmented, objectified human beings gaze at one from positions of powerlessness and empowerment. Nikuko herself is portrayed as a kind of geisha dominatrix, particularly when juxtaposed with Dr. Konninger’s post-coital supine body. Subsequent images of a pile of heads and body parts and phrases like “carnage and extasy” create an unsettling mix of death and “la petit mort.”

   (Source: Leonardo Flores)

   Helene Helgeland - 12.11.2012 - 14:39

5. Kvinden ved siden af

   This is the story of two women whose souls switch bodies during their surgery after a traffic accident they were both involved in. The story is told in a standalone iPad app, narrated in part by the sister of one of the women and in part through a series of documents that the sister finds or is given: the doctor's report of the surgery, emails and chat transcripts from people reacting to the soul-swapping, and various other Although the story is entirely linear, the illustrations and the feeling of opening documents on the screen make this short story well suited to the tablet reading environment. The style of writing is humorous and at times somewhat caricatured, though also raising large questions about identity and mortality.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.01.2013 - 21:18

6. Superstitious Appliances

   This set of six thematically linked poems revolve around appliances and obsessions about the body. From the outset, the Nelson seeks to unsettle the reader by taking a medieval, religious kind of image and placing it over a layer of what seems to be digital static, while a couple of soft audio tracks play: one a barely audible person speaking, and a throaty voice repeating “I will eat you.” As the reader explores this surface and clicks on links to go to the poems, she will be unsettled further by entering environments that respond to their presence in various ways. There is a learning curve for each poem as the reader figures out the interface enough to be able to read the texts, which increases the exposure to the environments Nelson has crafted for each short poem. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

   Hannelen Leirvåg - 08.02.2013 - 17:14

7. The Body Politic

   In this multimedia hypertext poem, Ley foregrounds some ways in which the body is constructed and politicized. Using the HTML select tag as a way to structure lines of verse by hiding them under the first line of the stanza, she reinforces the metaphor of surface and depth as text and subtext. The pull-down menu produced by this tag carries a little functional baggage, that one is to choose an item from the list, which becomes something to be acted upon, such as information on a form or a link to another document. In this piece the reader can only select a line, which remains juxtaposed to the title, but nothing else happens. Is Ley highlighting the passivity of simply reading the text about women’s bodies and cruelty to animals in the cosmetics and food industries, if not accompanied by political action? On several pages she provides links to PETA inviting readers to take that extra step and get involved, rather than just enjoy the surface of things.

   (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

   Hannelen Leirvåg - 10.02.2013 - 22:26

8. Histoire de la Femme aux Grosses Mains

   Une femme se réveille un matin avec une anomalie biologique : elle interprète le monde environnant au travers des sillons de ses doigts dès qu’elle touche un objet. La science et la médecine l’aident à s’adapter à cette nouvelle captation du monde, qu’elle vit comme une hypersensibilité continue. Ses mains grossissent : c’est la Femme Aux Grosses Mains, la FAGM. Le cédérom est accompagné d’un livre illustré, dont il constitue le dernier chapitre. [Source: http://www.agencetopo.qc.ca/blog/2002/11/12/histoire-de-la-femme-aux-gro... ]

   Dan Kvilhaug - 08.04.2013 - 14:07

9. VIDEOPLACE

   VIDEOPLACE is a responsive video projection environment mapping users movements and actions in a real-time build etween 1975 and 1984. The system is Krueger's first implementation of an Artifical Reality enivronment, an interactive immersive environment where the user get in contact with the virtual without any use of googles or other interface devices.

   The works GLOW FLOW, META PLAY, and PSYCHIC SPACE were the precursors to the VIDEOPLACE environment, which now of comes with 25 different programs.

   Elisabeth Nesheim - 20.05.2013 - 12:40

10. Mahasukha Halo

    Mahasukha -- the Nepalese Buddhist concept of transendence through erotic experience.

    Mahasukha Halo -- snapshots, pleas, and confessions from a future world of alien sex and alien gods, where humans do the dirty work and put on the dirty shows. Lost missionaries, sex addicts, hyacinth men, and post-millenium religious fanatics poulate these street scenes where sex and religion are polyvalent, and body parts proliferate. (Source: Eastgate)

    Mahasukha Halo is a mysterious science fiction hypertext that reveals a disturbing picture of a futuristic world where people praises creatures from another planet. To satisfy these creatures, people have to do some disturbing things. The work has a console where users can navigate through the work, see links and save their reading progress.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.07.2013 - 13:20

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