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1. Solstice

   Goss went to an internet cafe in the lower east side on the winter solstice of December 21st and again on the summer solstice of June 21st.

   "Solstice" is made from the words and phrases that appeared in Google on the cafe's computers on those days. The computers were set to "autoComplete" so by simply typing a letter, she could see all previous searches done beginning with that letter.

   The result is a combinatory found poem generator that the user configures by hitting individual keys to add phrases beginning with the corresponding letter.

   (Source: Author's description)

   Scott Rettberg - 16.06.2012 - 23:07

2. No Time Machine

   Quiet time, dead time, free time—call it what you will, there seems to be less and less of it. What do people give up in the race to maximize every second of their waking life? What kinds of activities are replaced by the panicked drive for efficiency? No Time Machine explores these questions by mining the Internet for mentions of the phrase “I don’t have time for” and variations such as “You can’t find the time for” and “We don’t make time for.” Based on a set of procedures we’ve set up, a program analyzes the search results and reconstructs them into a poetic conversation. Interwoven with this “found poetry” generated by the program are sentences that we re-contextualized ourselves; a human-computer collaboration that expands the field of creative writing to include networked and programmable media.

   (Source: authors abstract from Turbulence)

   Patricia Tomaszek - 24.08.2012 - 16:08

3. 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