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1. Diagrams Series 6: 6.4 and 6.10

   Diagrams Series 6 is the latest in a life-long series of Diagram Poems, the earliest experimentations for which began in 1968. Although I have been making interactive works since 1988, Diagrams Series 6 is actually my first work written in a fully interactive way: from beginning to end in one interactive environment where the word object is playable at every stage of its development, from temporary unassembled scrap all the way to its final location in a finished piece. This environment is part of an ongoing project which I call Hypertext in the Open Air, implemented in a programming system called Squeak. It allows the works to be played on all popular computing platforms, including Macintosh, BSD, Linux, and Windows. Diagrams Series 6, consisting of the works 6.4 and 6.10, strives to return to the intense diagrammicity of some of my earlier non-interactive works, Diagrams Series 4 and Diagrams Series 3. The diagram notation acts as a kind of external syntax, allowing word objects to carry interactivity deep inside the sentence. Interactivity, in turn, allows for juxtapositions to be opened so that the layers in cluster can occupy the same space and yet be legible.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 11.01.2011 - 12:42

2. The Last Performance

   Author description: The Last Performance [dot org] is a constraint-based collaborative writing, archiving and text-visualization project responding to the theme of lastness in relation to architectural forms, acts of building, a final performance, and the interruption (that becomes the promise) of community. The visual architecture of The Last Performance [dot org] is based on research into "double buildings," a phrase used here to describe spaces that have housed multiple historical identities, with a specific concern for the Hagia Sophia and its varied functions of church, mosque, and museum. The project uses architectural forms as a contextual framework for collaborative authorship. Source texts submitted to the project become raw material for a constantly evolving textual landscape.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.02.2011 - 08:10

3. Frequency

   Frequency is a poetry generator written in Ruby, and part of a larger constrained writing process. The lines of all the poems in Frequency are constrained by the fact that I used only 200 of the most common English words in them. The poems generated by Frequency are built from a pool of 2000 lines I wrote. The process of writing the lines was not aided by the machine and was painstaking work. I wrote a set of ten lines beginning with each word, only using the other words in this list in the rest of the line. It is perhaps not unsurprisingly difficult to make meaningful expressions with such a limited vocabulary, but in the end I was surprised by how flexible these base units of our language can be. The poetry generator itself runs from a command line interface, and can algorithmically assemble poems according to a number of different rhyme scheme, syllabic, and spatial criteria.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 04.03.2011 - 22:52

4. Oulipoems

   Oulipoems is a series of six interactive poetry Flash works, ranging from electronic poems, to games, to a tool for generating and writing poetry using the vocabulary of a variety of poets. The pieces are loosely based on the Oulipo movement in French literature, which focused on texts based on constraints (for instance, Perec's famous novel A Void, a lipogram in which the letter e does not appear) and also on mixtures of literature and mathematics.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 08.11.2011 - 16:25

5. The Purpling

   The Purpling

   Scott Rettberg - 16.06.2012 - 01:02

6. JB Wok

   Hello world, this is J B Wock, and this is my blog!
   Actually, I am a PHP script , and (almost) every night
   I write a short phrase about whatever comes to my mind.

   My method is:
   - I find a phrase that I like on the Internet.
   - I twist the phrase until I'm pleased with it.
   - When everything's ready, I publish my post.

   (Source: Description on the project site)

   Scott Rettberg - 16.06.2012 - 11:39

7. Poem by Nari does Windows

   This hypertext poem examines language and instructions from help menus and other documentation in the Windows 98 operating system, juxtaposing it with texts and images from other sources (credited in “Windows”) as well as with original material. The formatting for the Windows texts is designed for readers to read them clearly, allowing for Microsoft’s prosaic, utilitarian voice to emerge clearly and deliver instructions for procedures that seem unnecessarily complex. The “Poem by Nari” texts (Warnell’s poetic persona) are made strange and poetic through visual formatting: primarily by eliminating spaces between words, arranging streams of texts in columns, and capitalizing by constraint rather than by convention.

   (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

   Hannelen Leirvåg - 10.02.2013 - 22:32

8. Nine Gestures for J.D. Salinger

   A poetic tribute to the writings of J.D. Salinger, this work explores Nine Stories (1953), by inviting participants to write their thoughts into a book in response to nine individual prompts, each corresponding to one of the stories. Interacting with the book reveals a series of poems that follow thematic gestures from the original writings.

   To interact, open the book to any one page, read the typed prompt and then write down either a single word, or short phrase as a response, writing onto the adjoining page’s writable section using the pen. A nearby screen responds by offering several composed verses with each inscription. When a section is filled, that gesture is considered complete.

   (Source: Author's description for ELO_AI)

   Scott Rettberg - 10.04.2013 - 23:29

9. Pietistentango

   Der Pietistentango (1997) ist ein gemeinsames Werk von Reinhard Döhl und Johannes Auer und ein klares Beispiel für ein animiertes visuelles Gedicht. Für dieses Projekt verwendeten die beiden ihnen bereits bekanntes Material. Das Werk zeigt aber deutlicher noch als das Buch Gertrud , dass die Umsetzung von älteren Texten und Projekten nie 1:1 vor sich ging, sondern das Material stets eine grundsätzliche neue Bearbeitung erfuhr. Der Pietistentango wurde zu einem Teil des TanGo Projekts (1997). Sein Ursprung war eine Mail-Art-Aktion , die anlässlich der Projektvorstellung im Dezember 1996 im Goethe Institut in Montevideo dokumentiert wurde. Die Karten von Döhl an Auer erhielten alle möglichen sinnvollen Buchstabenkombinationen des Wortes »Pietisten«: z. B. »ist, piste, pisten, stein, steine, niest, nest, pest, pein, pst, psi, sein, ein, nie, ei, niete«.

   Beat Suter - 06.07.2013 - 13:08

10. Taper #5: Pent Up

    Each issue of Taper is edited by a collective. Editing and production is done in coordination with The Trope Tank at MIT, a laboratory directed by Bad Quarto proprietor and publisher Nick Montfort. Taper is not officially associated with MIT or hosted on an MIT server, however.

    For the fifth issue, the editorial collective consisted of Kyle Booten, Angela Chang, Leonardo Flores, Judy Heflin, and Milton Läufer. 

    A constraint was established: the core part of each poem—the HTML on the page after the header—could be no more than a tiny 2KB (2048 bytes). Members of the editorial collective recused themselves from discussion of their own submissions. The collective works independently of the publisher to make selections. We thank Sebastian Bartlett for his help in managing the template.

    The work in this fifth issue is written in HTML5, using ES6. It has been tested and found to work properly on current Firefox and Chrome/Chromium browsers across current platforms, as well as on Mac OS X Safari; everything does not work on Edge and iOS Safari.

    Scott Rettberg - 16.10.2020 - 16:10