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1. 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

2. 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

3. Labylogue

   Labylogue est un espace de conversation.

   Dans trois lieux différents reliés par Internet, Bruxelles, Lyon , Dakar , les visiteurs déambulent dans un labyrinthe virtuel en quête de l’autre.

   Deux à deux ils dialoguent en français.

   A mi-chemin entre le livre et la Bibliothèque de Babel de Borgès, les murs se tapissent de phrases générées en temps réel, qui sont autant d’interprétations du dialogue en cours. A son tour le texte fait l’objet d’une interprétation orale qui anime l’espace du labyrinthe tel un choeur de synthèse qui vagabonde sur les rives de la langue en action.

   La médiation numérique introduit dans la communication des couches d’interprétation qui échappent à l’intention brouillant parfois le sens. La parole reprend alors ses droits. Elle glisse sur l’interprétation de la machine en privilégiant le contact là où la trace écrite dérive.rive.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 23.08.2012 - 13:20

4. The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed

   With the exception of this introduction, the writing in this book was all done by a computer. The book has been proofread for spelling but otherwise is completely unedited. The fact that a computer must somehow communicate its activities to us, and that frequently it does so by means of programmed directives in English, does suggest the possibility that we might be able to compose programming that would enable the computer to find its way around a common language "on its own" as it were. The specifics of the communication in this instance would prove of less importance than the fact that the computer was in fact communicating something. In other words, what the computer says would be secondary to the fact that it says it correctly.

   (Source: from Bill Chamberlain's introduction at Ubuweb)

   Scott Rettberg - 25.08.2012 - 14:13

5. Corporate Text Cannibal

   The work presented a remix of academic texts devoted to creative cannibalism championed by scholars such as Roberto Simanowski and Chris Funkhouser; another scholarly topic remixed was remixology in reference to Mark Amerika. All textual sources together with lyrics by Grace Jones ("Digital Cannibal") were cannibalized into a poem written by the author. It was performed timely filling Jones' refrain, while a number of minimized browser-windows scattered over the projected wall screened the music-video upon deferred-activation.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 03.09.2012 - 16:52

6. Aya Karpinska and Daniel C. Howe

   This case study was originally prepared for, but does not appear in, New Directions in Digital Poetry (New York: Continuum, 2012); see http://newdirectionsindigitalpoetry.net

   Source: footnote 2 to the article

   Patricia Tomaszek - 06.09.2012 - 22:54

7. Snaps

   A generative poem where each screen shows four lines of poetry, sometimes only a word in each line, and a black and white image beneath the words.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 09.10.2012 - 21:10

8. Last Words

   The complete title for this multimedia poem is “Last Words (Ordinary People Speak at the Moment of Death / In or Around the New York City Area)” and it is both descriptive of the poem’s theme and suggestive of a key strategy. Organized around eight characters’ final words and the contexts in which those words were uttered, each one is represented by a brief “slice of death” narrative, and a poetic voice from beyond that provides an ironic counterpoint, full of Bigelow’s characteristic darkly understated humor. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

   Scott Rettberg - 16.10.2012 - 15:02

9. Time Train

   "Timetrain" by Dorothee Lang is an ethereal experience created in Flash that uses the visuals of a train station in combination with audio and carefully crafted text to take the reader along for a ride. As images and phrases move across the screen and new juxtapositions are created, the reader is presented with opportunities for self-reflection. As the bottom of the picture moves to the right, forward, while the top of the picture moves to the left, backward suggesting spatial as well as temporal movements as trains "arrive" and "depart." The text floats in the middle as the pictures show a 360 degree view of the station.

   (Source: Electronic Literature Directory entry by Joy Jeffers)

   Scott Rettberg - 16.10.2012 - 15:58

10. Stained Word Window

    Stained Word Window

    Scott Rettberg - 16.10.2012 - 16:06

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