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1. Softies

   Softies is a series of animated, typographic poems created with the Mr. Softie vector typographics
   editor. The author describes these works as “wrinkled squirming typographic poems (fresh in 2009).”
   Because of its malleable form, the work forces the user to move and engage with it. The ongoing
   reshaping of the words and the ambient music playing in the background add to its hypnotic quality.

   (Source: Description from the Electronic Literature Exhibit at the MLA 12)

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 27.01.2012 - 11:34

2. ABC LA: Portrait d'une ville en 26 lettres

   “THE ABC: portrait of a city in 26 letters offers a reading in Los Angeles over the alphabet, an attempt to find coherence in what appears not to have to give shape to what is often perceived as amorphous. Beyond the clichés this portrait reveals textual and audio aspects of the city hidden behind her image hypermédiatisée”

   (Source: “France Culture” as presented in the Electronic Literature Exhibition, MLA 2012)

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 28.01.2012 - 14:11

3. Suicide in an Airplane

   Suicide in an Airplane is a flash-based algorithmic poem/painting in black and white. Poet Brian Kim Stefans, using text derived from pages of The New York Times, has created a work in which terms associated with a hijacking incident randomly appear on the screen. The words, which have the appearance of pencil doodling, break into separate letters and chaotically bounce around the screen, sometimes disintegrating on impact with other text, other times moving about in what seems to be a floating anagram. Accompanied by tone cluster piano chords in a composition by Leo Ornstein, the text seems to pulse with the music. At times, letters fly into objects constructed of other text and explode in sync with music that mimics the scream of jet engines.

   (Source: Electronic Literature Exhibition catalogue description by Andrea Nelms)

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 30.01.2012 - 12:04

4. Ruben and Lullaby

   Ruben And Lullaby is an interactive iPhone app/game that engages the user in a relationship between two lovers. Loyer labels this and similar projects as 'opertoons', stories that you can play. Ruben And Lullaby allows the user to shift focus between people, changing a characters mood by shaking or stroking. While the work is presented in black and white, the screen changes color based on the mood of the characters while also playing a responsive jazz soundtrack in the background. Annotated by Mike Scoggins.

   (Source: Description from the Electronic Literature Exhibition catalogue)

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 05.02.2012 - 16:31

5. The Carrier

   The Carrier is the first digital graphic novel meant to be viewed exclusively on the iPhone. The novel utilizes many of the features the phone has to offer such as the touch interface, web links to extra story input, and geolocation. Also unique to the work is the way in which the story unfolds: It is given to the user in real time. Like 19th-century novels and 20th-century comic books, The Carrier is distributed serially. Release of each chapter is timed to specific intervals that correlate to the hero's experience of time within the story. Story premise: a scientist wakes up in Bangkok with no memories and a briefcase chained to his wrist. As the scientist moves across the world, ancillary elements of his story are texted and emailed to the reader: recipes for Thai food, London weather reports, fake news headlines and the like. Annotated by Kyle Schaeffer.

   (Source: Description from the Electronic Literature Exhibition catalogue)

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 05.02.2012 - 16:44