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1. Patchwork Girl

   Alternative Title: Patchwork girl, or, A modern monster by Mary/Shelley, & herself: a graveyard, a journal, a quilt, a story & broken accents

   Publisher's blurb:

   What if Mary Shelley's Frankenstein were true?

   What if Mary Shelley herself made the monster -- not the fictional Dr. Frankenstein?

   And what if the monster was a woman, and fell in love with Mary Shelley, and travelled to America?

   This is their story.

   (Source: Eastgate website)

   A retelling of the Frankenstein story where a female monster is completed by Mary Shelley herself.

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   Electronic Literature Directory entry:

   Alternative Title: Patchwork girl, or, A modern monster by Mary/Shelley, & herself: a graveyard, a journal, a quilt, a story & broken accents

   Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl was created in Storyspace, is distributed by Eastgate Systems, Inc., and ranks among the most widely read, discussed, and taught works of early hyperfiction.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 05.01.2011 - 12:59

2. Takei, George

   "Takei, George" is a remix of Nick Montfort's "Taroko Gorge," transforming Montfort's original meditative generative poem into a comment on pop culture, fandom, and contemporary politics.

   (Source: The ELO 2012 Media Art Show)

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 19.02.2012 - 18:14

3. Argot, Ogre, OK!

   All of the prior remixes of Nick Montfort's _Taroko Gorge_ rewrote the text, while leaving Nick's code unchanged or almost so. I thought that was a shame. I also thought it was an opportunity! Since they all essentially consisted of word-lists plugged into a schema, I was able to remix them together on two axes at the same time:

   * Combining the word-lists of any two poems;
   * Mutating the stanza schema.

   I also took the opportunity to randomize the color schemes of the pages. (But not the font choices or the background imagery that some of the poems indulged in. Optima for everybody, I'm afraid.)

   Nick's original poem generates a constant ABBA-C pattern, with some extra B's thrown in. This page essentially invents a new pattern (for example A-, or BC-BA, or CCC, or so on) for each block. The code for the pattern is on the left, and the generated output is on the right.

   To answer the obvious question: Yes, this page really does execute the code that's displayed in the left column, and it really does generate the text in the right column.

   Scott Rettberg - 24.06.2012 - 15:09