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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.
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Eric Dean Rasmussen - 10.02.2011 - 14:29
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The Mandrake Vehicles
The Mandrake Vehicles consists of three "vehicles," each one surfaced with a large text block concerning the biological development, folklore, occult ritual, magical association, and homeopathic usages of the mandrake plant. The surface text blocks can be read linearly from one to the next. However, each surface text also conceals a depth of two additional poems (as well as liquid layers, when the letters are in a transitional state). In each vehicle, both of these inner poems have technically been visible all along in the top layer, but remain undetected because of the presence of the other letters and characters. The inner poems of each vehicle are unearthed as letters drift off the surface of the poem and the remaining letters solidify into new poems. In addition to the relationships created between the contents of the three poems of each vehicle, relationships are also forged between words of the different layers that share the same letter(s). In the liquid layers, letters cast off scales of themselves which fall down the screen, colliding with other cast-off scales to form the detritus words, the trash cast off by the process.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 21.02.2011 - 14:30
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L'Hymne à la Femme et au Hasard
L’Hymne de la Femme et au Hazard a été publié dans le journal alire n° 7. Dans le programme, le lecteur a accès à une matrice dans un premier temps. Il a le choix d’entrer dans ces matrices en choisissant l’ordre d’apparition de trois matrices parmi les catégories suivantes : la femme, le hasard et le néant. Puis, le lecteur a accès à la lecture de la matrice. Une fois la lecture complétée, le lecteur a accès au surtexte, variation des images de la matrice en question. Le surtexte fonctionne comme un moule, moule qui est conditionné par le lecteur. Lorsque le lecteur lit le surtexte un sentiment de déprise surgit alors. En effet, celui-ci doit faire un effort non-trivial de lecture. Bootz définit d’ailleurs cette lecture comme « un travail » et « un investissement » de la part du lecteur. Ce dernier lit deux textes différents, disjoints dans le temps. Plus précisément, lorsqu’un vers apparaît, il s’efface vite pour laisser place à un autre vers. De plus, la vitesse à laquelle défilent les vers est parfois bien trop élevée pour qu’un œil humain puisse lire, déchiffrer ou mémoriser les mots.
Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel - 07.09.2014 - 00:28
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La Belle
“La Belle” is a kinetic poem created by Philippe Bootz in 1989. Published in the review alire 2, it was later transferred into the anthology Le salon de lecture électronique in 1994. The poem itself is a brief program that is presented in several parts. That is to say, the poem seems to be cut into strophes: a preliminary strophe that introduces the poem, a sequence of lines that appear and disappear quickly in the center of the screen that make up the second part of the poem, and the third strophe that is presented just after the first and second strophes. Yet, the third strophe changes a bit after the second strophe. Only the last line of the poem, “froid jusqu’au coeur,” is seen. This means of presenting the poem complicates the comprehension of its sense and thus creates a sentiment of distance from the poem. Moreover, the rapidity of the program is accentuated by the transfer software for technological reasons. Therefore, the feeling of isolation from the poem is augmented inadvertently by the software program. Despite all that, a meaning can be drawn from the poem so long as one knows how to slow down the program to be able to soak it in.
Jonathan Baillehache - 16.09.2014 - 05:18
