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1. afternoon, a story

   Afternoon was first shown to the public as a demonstration of the hypertext authoring system Storyspace, announced in 1987 at the first Association for Computing Machinery Hypertext conference in a paper by Michael Joyce and Jay David Bolter.[1] In 1990, it was published on diskette and distributed in the same form by Eastgate Systems.

   The hypertext fiction tells the story of Peter, a recently divorced man who one morning witnessed a deadly car crash where he believes his ex-wife and son were involved. He cannot stop blaming himself as he walked away from the accident without helping the injured people. A recurring sentence throughout the story "I want to say I may have seen my son die this morning" where [I want to say] is one of many lexias built into a loop which causes the reader to revisit the same lexia throughout the story. The hypertext centers around the car accident, but also reveals the multifarious ways of the characters' mutual promiscuity.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 05.01.2011 - 12:33

2. All Roads

   Venice. The tight winding alleys and long dirty canals. Easy to become lost here, where every street emerges somewhere unexpected. In the central square a scaffold has been erected for your neck, and if only you can escape for long enough you might survive, but in this city all roads lead back to Piazza San Marco and the Hanging Clock.

   (Source: Author's description from Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 18.04.2011 - 12:53

3. This is how you will die

   A recombinatory digital fiction/poem for predicting death. It uses the stripped down the code of an online slot machine game, replacing the cards with 15 five-line death fictions/poeticals. The artwork recombines the scenarios randomly every time you spin. The writing divides the scenarios into location, method, result and post-result of each death possibility. Additionally, you can win death videos/poetry visuals and free spins. Some are rather scared of this creature's forecasting tone, while others exalt in the absurdist joy of the way all stories are interchangeable, interrelated and happily random.

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

   Scott Rettberg - 20.04.2011 - 13:23

4. Dawn

   The poem combines aspects of love, death, and nature in one piece. Originally it consisted of three parts: text, photography, and sound. In the Flash version these parts are arranged in a loop completed by a minimalist interface (to pause).
   (Source: author description from ELC Vol. 1)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 26.04.2011 - 10:27

5. Interstitial

   David Jhave Johnston’s video-based "Interstitial" is a meditation on terminal anxiety. The title of the piece, which refers generally to that which occupies an “empty interval,” takes on a specific connotation when one considers its popular use in web development contexts for the commercial “pre-loaders” that hawk their wares while one waits for the site to open. The video, which is minimally edited, features three views arranged in triptych form: a cat decomposing in a river, tidal pools, and a bug undergoing metamorphosis. These events, as witnessed by Johnston, are unaltered and unmodified, simply captured where they occurred using handheld equipment. According to an artist’s statement published on Tributaries and Text-fed Streams (http://tributaries.thecapilanoreview.ca/2008/02/22/interstitial/), the web presentation of the files was formatted through the process of naming the discrete video, audio, and poetic text files and allowing software to assemble these pieces into an endless loop.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 06.05.2011 - 14:19

6. Tramway

   A cause des changements des systèmes d'exploitation et des logiciel et l’évolution constante de la vitesse des ordinateurs, le dispositif numérique peut parfois affecter le projet artistique de l’auteur. Dans Tramway, cette instabilité du dispositif est metaphorisée sur la surface de l’écran, et elle est thématisée à travers la mise en relation entre une figure de manipulation avec les contextes média manipulables .

   Dans ce travail, j'ai essayé de composer avec l’épaisseur temporelle étrange de certains événements. Dix ans plus tard, un événement dans ma vie a pris cette épaisseur paradoxale: Ma mère et moi avons dû faire un geste qui semble toujours si solennel et naturel dans les films : fermer les yeux de mon père qui venait de mourir. Ma mère l’a finalement fait, mais d'une manière que j’ai réussi à décrire une seule fois - aussi parce qu’elle a partiellement échoué. Cette scène était resté une plaie ouverte dans ma vie - comme un œil enflammé je n’arrive ni à fermer, ni à garder ouvert.

   Alexandra Saemmer - 08.09.2011 - 16:46

7. Etang

   Etang est le résultat d'une expérience d'écriture avec une ami. Tout comme mon père, le sien est mort d'une maladie grave. Pendant plusieurs semaines, nous nous sommes rencontrées pour parler de notre expérience. A l’aide de courts textes organisés autour de plusieurs thèmes, nous avons essayé d'imaginer l'expérience de l’autre. Quelques années après cette expérience d'écriture, j'ai eu l'occasion de prendre des photos dans une maison incendiée. Pour des raisons d'assurance, les anciens habitants avaient dû quitter tous leurs biens dans les pièces brûlées. J'ai décidé de repeupler ces pièces avec la voix du père de mon ami, ainsi qu'avec la voix de sa fille.

   Alexandra Saemmer - 08.09.2011 - 17:22

8. The Last Day of Betty Nkomo

   This 2005 piece distinguishes itself from most of YHCHI's earlier work in two ways: it is brief (about 2 minutes long) and it uses an Okinawan folk song (perhaps a version of "Asadoya Yunta") rather than jazz. This compelling story is perfectly synchronized to the music, powerfully narrating the thought process of a woman who seems to by dying on the floor, trying to get up, but unable to. The chords played on the sanshin set a regular tempo for the song and poem, but its heartbeat-like rhythm slows down into an abrupt silence at the end of the song, marking Betty Nkomos' death.

   For a more detailed reading of this poem, read pgs. 157-161 of Giovanna Di Rosario's dissertation, "Electronic Poetry: Understanding Poetry in the Digital Environment."

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

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 05.10.2011 - 13:51

9. Suits: A Narrative of About Twenty-Seven Hours, More or Less

   Author's description from The New River: 

   This piece tells the story of a character's response to her father's death. In creating this piece, I worked in Flash ActionScript 3.0 to code a random trigger function, so that when you click on the suit icon a random sound file plays and an associated text appears on the screen.

   Scott Rettberg - 11.10.2011 - 14:01

10. Car Wash

    A kinetic poem reflecting on the death of the author's father that uses the car wash as a metaphor for passing between worlds.

    Scott Rettberg - 30.10.2011 - 20:36

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