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1. Palavrador

   Palavrador is a poetic cyberworld built in 3D (Palavrador comes from the Portuguese word palavra, which itself means "word"). Directed by Francisco Carlos de Carvalho Marinho (Chico Marinho), it was nonetheless conceived and implemented as a result of synergetic collective assemblage of ideas and activities of a wider group of authors with backgrounds in the arts, literature, and computer science. Six flocks of meandering poems autonomously wander through the three-dimensional space. The readers may choose how many flocks of poems they want to see wandering through the environment, and the poems (botpoems) are able to turn around obstacles to keep their unveiling cohesion while moving through the space. The logic of movements was implemented using artificial intelligence procedures based on swarm behavior and steering behaviors of autonomous locomotion agents. Among the virtual objects of the Palavrador there is a labyrinth whose architecture is generated by mathematical procedures (fractal). There are also video poems, the sounds from which are modulated in relation to the distance of the readers, thus creating an immersive journey with a musical dimension.

   Scott Rettberg - 15.04.2011 - 15:26

2. Roulette

   Roulette is a work of recombinant narrative that offers a novel interactive reading experience. As lines of text shift and fade in response to user manipulation of the 3-D interface, a fractured collection of stories is revealed, shifting in mood and meaning with each reading.

   (Source: Author's abstract from Electronic Literature Collection, Volume Two)

   Scott Rettberg - 15.04.2011 - 15:43

3. Screen

   Screen is an alternative literary game created in the "Cave," a room-sized virtual reality display. It begins with reading and listening. Texts, presenting moments of memory as a virtual experience, appear on the Cave's walls, surrounding the reader. Then words begin to come loose. The reader finds she can knock them back with her hand, and the experience becomes a kind of play - as well-known game mechanics are given new form through bodily interaction with text. At the same time, the language of the text, together with the uncanny experience of touching words, creates an experience that does not settle easily into the usual ways of thinking about gameplay or VR. Words peel faster and faster; struck words don't always return to where they came from; and words with nowhere to go can break apart. Eventually, when too many are off the wall, the rest peel loose, swirl around the reader, and collapse. Playing "better" and faster keeps this at bay, but longer play sessions also work the memory text into greater disorder through misplacements and neologisms. (Source: authors' description.)

   Scott Rettberg - 15.04.2011 - 15:56

4. Dreamaphage

   Dreamaphage

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 27.04.2011 - 14:09

5. open.ended

   Author description: open.ended is an interactive three-dimensional poem experienced through the interplay of shifting geometric surfaces. Verses appear on the faces of separate translucent cubes nested within one another. The reader manipulates a mouse, joystick, or touch-screen to bring stanzas on different surfaces into view. As cubes, faces, and layers are revealed, dynamically updating lines of text move in and out of focus. The structure of the poem facilitates a multiplicity of readings: from single verses on cube faces, to sequential verses across faces, to juxtapositions of verses across multiple cubes. Meaning is constructed actively through collaboration between reader, author, and mediated work. An audio track of the authors' layered voices extends the experience, enveloping the reader in the atmosphere of the poem, organically complementing the visual and tactile components of the work.

   (Source: Author description, ELC vol. 1).

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 29.04.2011 - 10:01

6. mar puro

   Description from artist´s website: This piece is based on a collection of poems by the Spanish poet Carmen Conde (1907-1996). I created an ocean journey with Conde’s words
   as the white crests of waves crashing onto a new shore.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 05.05.2011 - 14:41

7. Heart Pole

   Description taken from N. Katherine Hayles, Electronic Literature: "David Knoebel's exquisitely choreographed 'Heart Pole,' from his collection 'Click Poetry,' features a circular globe of words, with two rings spinning at 90 degrees from one another, 'moment to moment' and 'mind absorbing.' A longer narrative sequence, imaged as a plane undulating in space, can be manipulated by clicking and dragging. The narrative, focalized through the memories of a third-person male persona, recalls the moment between waking and sleeping when the narrator's mother is singing him to sleep with a song composed of his day's activities. But like the slippery plane that shifts in and out of legibility as it twists and turns, this moment of intimacy is irrevocably lost to time, forming the 'heart pole' that registers both its evocation and the on-goingness that condemns even the most deeply seated experiences to loss" (11).

   Rita Raley - 05.05.2011 - 14:41

8. TLT vs. LL

   The z dimension in this work is important to the conceptual as well
   as the physical operation of the work. Normally, I am not so much
   concerned beyond the xy. My work is first graphic, then literary,
   interactive, and whatever else, so a concern beyond 2D is not high
   priority – until now, and with thanks in part to Rita Raley’s z
   queries.
   The idea of 'versus' (as opposition) demands at the
   least two sides, so, it could be represented visually with just xy.
   Previous 'dual' examples (and these are xy representations):
       warnell.com/pbn_io/dialog04.htm. Subject: dialog
       Email from John Cayley (/w Rita Raley), 2004
       warnell.com/real/dialog.htm. Dialog
       Email exchange with visual poet Jim Andrews, 1997
   So, thinking along that z line... the opposition
   comes not from the left or right, but from back to front ( 1 white from
   9 x white moves to top )
   

   Rita Raley - 05.05.2011 - 14:56

9. Word Museum

   Word Museum

   Rita Raley - 05.05.2011 - 15:02

10. Torus

    This video provides limited documentation of the
    “Torus” project. Unfortunately, however, it does not give a good
    impression of the reader’s experience of Torus as an instance of
    immersive VR. Constrained by the requirements of Cave technicians, the
    video is shot from a single point of view and without the stereo imaging
    that would usually be in operation. Moreover, the camera’s point of
    view is different and significantly distant from the reader’s point of
    view and this compromises the immersive illusion. For example, and most
    obviously, planes of text which should appear to extend behind the
    reader and out through the screen appear to be folded back away from
    both the camera’s and the reader’s point of view. Please bear this in
    mind when reviewing this material.

    A pdf version of the interview is in the Brown Digital Repository (which is supposed to guarantee its links for as long as the institution lasts):
    https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:383674/

    Rita Raley - 05.05.2011 - 15:06

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