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  1. ACITEOP. Disfunciones poéticas del lenguaje.

    Roman Jakobson defined the poetic function of language as being governed by principles of selection and order. Under this vision the poet is in charge of selecting and organising words in a particular way in order to achieve a poetic effect.

    ACITEOP is a programme that groups together different experimental tools used for constructing poetic narratives, both textual and visual, through the deconstruction of the poetic function of language using different algorithms.

    The result, which is different with each reading or interaction, is both a deconstructed text and a brand new piece of work generated from that same process of deconstruction.

    This first version is a simple example of the programme that creates a narrative based on text, sound and images, which begins with the deconstruction of the poem "Between What I See and What I Say" by Octavio Paz, who dedicated the poem to the Russian linguist Roman Jakobson after his death.

    Pelayo - 19.05.2011 - 13:34

  2. The LA Flood Project

    The LA Flood Project is a [work in progress] locative media experience made up of three segments:

    1. Oral histories of crises in Los Angeles
    2. A locative narrative about a fictional flood
    3. A flood simulation

    (Source: Project site)

    Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 12:28

  3. Mirroring Tears: Visages

    An instantiation of the Readers Project performed at E-Poetry 2011, the project includes "mirroring translators" that translate poetry from French to English while exhibiting particular types of reading behaviors.

    Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 13:53

  4. Google Earth: A Poem for Voice and Internet

    This highly professional video documents a live performance of this poem, which uses primarily three materials: speeches by presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and Google Earth. These works are brought together in a political and economic mashup that incorporates texts read aloud by Portela in English and translated to Spanish and Portuguese, voice recordings of the speeches, and a large projected video of Google Earth navigating to parts of the world that resonate with the poem. Portela intervenes upon these materials in a variety of ways, defamiliarizing them towards the poetic, emphasizing particular words or passages by isolating and repeating them, and placing them in conversation with its other materials through juxtaposition and superposition. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

    Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 22:32

  5. Penumbra

    Penumbra is a hybrid, re-imagining of the E-book. Crafted for mobile tablets, it carefully integrates gesture, video, interaction design and text. Increasingly, the tablet represents a readership that is poised for rich interactive worlds: new stories for new screens. Authoring with, in and through the tablet platform has the potential to create future literature that redefines our reading practice beyond simple existing emulations of print on screen or “touch and click” reading. In Penumbra, the digital and physical work together to bring the reader into the mind of the main protagonist. A series of P.O.V. interactive elements allow the reader to explore the language, senses, and visuals of the protagonist’s increasingly muddled thoughts. Through this engagement with a new type of book, the cultural expectations of what it means to “read” are interrogated and rethought. When encountered as an installation, Penumbra is an evocative standalone app. that can be read by interacting with the touch-based screen of an iPad. The aim is to create a strong fictional world where the interactions required to traverse it are non-trivial, compelling and content rich.

    Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 23:26

  6. Prosthesis

    Prosthesis is a set of live vocal performances addressing complicities inherent in the use of digital technology and emergent artificialities in cognition, language, and the physical body. It consists of nine main sections, including readings augmented by projections and recorded voice, and concludes with a song.

    (Source: Author's site)

    Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 23:47

  7. With Love, from a Failed Planet

     A satirical piece of netart featuring multiple short fictions detailing the failure of well-known, contemporary institutions, primarily corporations such as Apple, IKEA, and CNN, though corporatized political entities (Canada, France, and the White House) and individuals (author Neil Gaiman) are also ribbed. Readers access the prose narratives by hovering over iconographic logos, affixed to a rotating, transparent globe. A minimalist, electronic soundtrack, reminiscent of those used in planetarium productions from the late 1970s and early 1980s, enhances the work's retro-futurist commentary on the factors leading to obsolescence in the capitalist world-system. 

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 28.05.2011 - 09:55

  8. Along the Briny Beach

    Along the briny beach a garden grows. With silver bells and cockleshells, cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh. A coral orchard puts forth raucous pink blossoms. A bouquet of sea anemones tosses in the shallows. A crop of cliffs hedges a sand-sown lawn mown twice daily by long green-thumbed waves rowing in rolling rows. The shifting terrain where land and water meet is always neither land nor water and is always both. The sea garden’s paths are fraught with comings and goings. Sea birds in ones and twos. Scissor-beak, Kingfisher, Parrot and Scissor-tail. Changes in the Zoology. Causes of Extinction. From the ship the sea garden seems to glisten and drip with steam. Along a blue sea whose glitter is blurred by a creeping mist, the Walrus and the Carpenter are walking close at hand. A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk along the briny storied waiting in-between space. Wind blooms in the marram dunes. The tide far out, the ocean shrunken. On the bluff a shingled beach house sprouts, the colour of artichoke. On the horizon lines of tankers hang, like Chinese lanterns. Ocean currents collect crazy lawn ornaments. Shoes and shipwrecks, cabbages and kings.

    J. R. Carpenter - 30.05.2011 - 20:53

  9. changeEverything

    What is a synonym? Sometimes, we pick the wrong word. ChangeEverything is a web app based on the naive belief that every word can be replaced by one of its synonyms. Using a live connection to a remote thesaurus, ChangeEverything provides variation on a text slowly straying from the original phrase to a perfect non-sense. Click after click, the user provokes a progressive drift in meaning. The user is also invited to take part in the random selection of synonyms. When pressing the mouse longer, a list of synonyms will appear, enabling the user to pick the version he or she prefers. The app is written in HTML5/Ajax with the Jquery Library.

    Serge Bouchardon - 17.06.2011 - 12:35

  10. changerTout

    Qu'est-ce qu'un synonyme? Parfois, on choisit le mauvais mot. ChangerTout est une application web qui repose sur la croyance naïve que chaque mot peut être remplacé par un de ses synonymes. En se connectant à un dictionnaire de synonymes en ligne, ChangerTout fournit des variations sur un texte, glissant peu à peu de la phrase originale jusqu'à un parfait non-sens. Click après click, l'utilisateur déclenche une dérive progressive du sens. L'utilisateur est également invité à prendre part à la sélection. Par un click prolongé, il a accès à la liste des synonymes, dans laquelle il pourra choisir la version qu'il préfère. L'appli est réalisée en HTML5/Ajax avec la librairie Jquery.

    Serge Bouchardon - 17.06.2011 - 12:37

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