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A Travesty Generator for Micros
Literary critical Hugh Kenner and computer scientist Joseph O'Rourke introduced their Perl text scrambler "Travesty" in an issue of BYTE magazine.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 09.06.2013 - 23:48
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You are the one thinking this: locative poetry as deictic writing
This article presents an experiment in locative literature. Using the textopia system for sharing of literary texts through spatial annotation and locative exploration with mobile devices, a commissioned work was created for a poetry festival. The project aimed to explore how professional, renowned poets could contribute a deepened understanding of the locative medium. The texts produced show two important traits. Firstly, a particular use of deictic relationships, in which words like “you” and “here” take on a particular importance, indicating that these words work like entry points for fiction and markers of make-believe. Secondly, a preoccupation with relations of absence and presence, both temporal and spatial, producing poetic recreations of a location's memory and spatial connections to the rest of the world.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 05.07.2013 - 15:29
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Nested Folders: On Birds in Digital Poetry
Digital poets have long explored the representation of birds’ physical presence and their mediation through visual and sonic technologies. Noah Wardrip-Fruin attributes the “first experiment with digital literature and digital art of any kind” to Christopher Strachey (302). The word “duck” appears in Strachey’s Love Letter generator, programmed on the Manchester University Computer in 1952. The word is used as a term of endearment; it does not refer to a specific bird. Birds and bugs intermingle in Jörg Piringer’s early iOS app, abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz (2010). In this piece, the winged creatures are not represented pictorially, but rather, by behaviour. The user selects letter forms from the edges of the screen, which then soar, in the case of birds, or jitter, in the case of crickets. Maria Mencia’s earlier work, Birds Singing Other Birds' Songs, was first exhibited at the Medway Gallery in 2001. As is the case in Piringer’s app, the birds are composed of letter forms.
J. R. Carpenter - 25.04.2022 - 10:42
