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riverIsland
[Note that the 2007 is for the Quicktime version. riverIsland was certainly published several years before this, but I have not been able to find the year. -JWR] riverIsland is a navigable text movie composed from transliteral morphs with (some) interliteral graphic morphs. It is an investigation of procedures of textual transformation associated with translation, which are proposed as transliteral. (Source: author description)
Jill Walker Rettberg - 25.03.2011 - 13:27
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Stepping Into the River: Experiencing John Cayley's riverIsland
In this paper I investigate the emergence of new writing and reading practices under the impact of digital media. Examining Cayley's poetic work riverIsland , I focus on what the poet himself calls “literal morphing.” These transformations of letters constitute, I argue, an important shift in poetic writing whose importance for literary analysis must be acknowledged. I conclude that poetic works in programmable media lead to a rethinking of concepts of surface and depth in relation to writing.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 25.03.2011 - 13:36
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Marble Springs 1.0
Marble Springs, a complex and lyrical new work in the tradition of Spoon River Anthology and Winesburg, Ohio, explores the lives of the women who built the American West. Marble Springs invites the reader to explore a collection of poems discovered in the ruins of a church in an abandoned ghost town. The poems, like the lives of so many 19th century women, are anonymous, enticing the reader to discover the identity of the author hidden between the lines. (Source: Marple Springs - Eastgate Systems)
Meri Alexandra Raita - 20.01.2012 - 11:51
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Amanda Stories: Ten Children's Adventures by Amanda Goodenough
"These stories combine storytelling with intuitive interactivity. Point and click to send spunky Inigo the Cat and Your Faithful Camel through one adventure after another! Each tale contains color animations, sound effects, original music and a variety of endings. Includes the complete four-volume collectino of ten stories on a single CD-ROM, for both Macintosh and Windows-based computers." Blurb on back of CD cover.
At least one of the stories was previously published as a HyperCard stack: Inigo Gets Out (1987)
Jill Walker Rettberg - 26.01.2012 - 13:02
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Leaving the City: Indra's Net V
A HyperCard stack consisting of an interactive literary piece. "Leaving the City" takes two works - a lecture on poetry, and a poem - and blends them via collocational algorithms. The algorithm takes a word chosen and, based on the x-coordinates of the cursor, will randomly choose which text to move into. By creating a branching work - the two texts flow in and out of each other based on the underlying scripts - these "collocational jumps" generate a unique text.
Alexander Duryee - 27.07.2012 - 22:54
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Collocations: Indra's Net II
A collection of texts, which combine based on next-word branching (similar to Leaving the City). By taking a given word on a page, an underlying script will find all other instances of that word in the supplied corpus, and randomly determine which work's text to shift into.
Collocations is an anthology consisting of:
"Under It All 2"
"A Refinement of Language"
"Indra's PoemPoem"
"Critical Theory"
Each of these uses similar methods of generating acrostic text to create the final work.
Alexander Duryee - 29.07.2012 - 04:05
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An Essay on the Golden Lion: Indra's Net IV
"Golden Lion" is an internal-acrostic (mesostic) hologogram between the texts "Han-Shan in Indra's Net" (Fanzang) and "An Essay on the Golden Lion" (Cayley). The algorithm at work takes each letter from "Han-Shan", finds a word from "Golden Lion" containing that letter, and displays that word. The algorithm prefers collocation within "Golden Lion" - if possible, it will maintain series of words from "Golden Lion".
Alexander Duryee - 03.08.2012 - 04:55
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Oisleánd: Indra's Net IX
Oisleánd is a hypertext work using mesostic techniques to combine two translations of one text. The "performance text" is generated by taking each letter in either the Irish poem "Oileán" or its English interpretation "Island", and substituting it with a full word from the other version (containing that letter). Thus, a new poem - either "English in Irish" or "Irish in English" is built, to use the author's words.
Alexander Duryee - 06.08.2012 - 02:36
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Pressing the Reveal Code Key: Indra's Net VIII
This work uses the same basic structure as the author's earlier "Book Unbound".
"Reveal Code" takes a hidden text corpus and creates a "generative performance" based on a collocation algorithm. The audience can then choose phrases from the generative performance and set them aside on pages labeled Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis, where they can be edited freely. Selections will also become part of the hidden corpus; the text will, over time, evolve to the audience's taste.
More information can be found in the author's article "Pressing the 'Reveal Code' Key", EJournal, March 1996: http://www.ucalgary.ca/ejournal/archive/ej-6-1.txt
Similarly, "Potentialities of Literary Cybertext" (April 1996, Visible Language) also explores this hypertext more deeply.
Alexander Duryee - 07.08.2012 - 01:41
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Fragments of the Dionysian Body
From the Eastgate Systems, Inc. advertisement:
"Fragments of the Dionysian Body conveys Nietzsche's system of implicitly defined concepts--complex images and metaphors, each depending on many other concepts--through hypertext's multiple references and links. Steinhart shows how hypertext is ideally suited to explicating Nietzsche's style of philosophical writing. Nietzsche's aphorisms, metaphors and parables often leave his thought less than clear. Steinhart's clever hypertext and obvious enthusiasm present this great thinker's work with clarity and energy. At the core of his exposition of Nietzsche's The Gay Science, Steinhart reexamines Nietzschean concepts as dynamical mathematical models. As his hypertext presents and expands the traditional interpretations, Steinhart shows that a coherent view of Nietzsche's writings can include Truth, Life, and God viewed as attractor basins, and the chaotic Ocean (on which we embark in the Ship of Self) as the state space of the Will to Power. The result is a surprising and sprightly demonstration of how engaging and inviting Nietzsche can be."
Alexander Duryee - 12.08.2012 - 23:11
