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1. Voyage Into the Unknown

   On May 25, 1869, you join the crew of one-armed Civil War veteran John Wesley Powell along with eight other fellow veterans, hunters and trappers, in an attempt to be the first to navigate the Colorado River through the vast unmapped maze of canyons in the heart of the Great American Desert. Playing the role of one of the crew members, you are well aware that no European-American has boated the formidable Colorado River -- not, at least, and written about it. Turning inward... this is, perhaps, the final American frontier, a terra incognita. This Flash-based interactive work is constructed using an innovative, sequentially loading horizontally scrolling format in which users travel across fiction and documentary artifact. You will travel across writing modes as well as spaces. Knowledge may lie in traveling among such modes. First comes the adventure, then comes its representation. Much later, comes critical examination, and, perhaps, as a whole, re-invention... The work uses the interactive format to bridge genres and modes of expression.

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

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 18.02.2011 - 21:42

2. 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

3. This Is Not A Poem

   This work takes the poem "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer and, transcribing it onto a "scratchable" disk, makes it into a toy, a game, and a language engine.

   (Source: Author's description)

   Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 12:35

4. "No Preexistent World": On "Natural" and "Artificial" Forms of Poetry

   Peter Gendolla pursues a paradox accompanying the literary avant-garde from Romanticism to the most current electronic installations; namely, that they want to bring back the cold, dead culture into “natural” life and that they are doing this with the most advanced technological procedures. They become more and more “technical” with the impulse not only to dissolve the division of the genres but also to transfer art at least by way of literary means into “natural” forms of life; thus, they are continually developing new forms of aesthetic difference that have to be differentiated from either nature or culture.

   Scott Rettberg - 24.05.2011 - 11:43

5. Väljarna/Elect

   Online work first published in 2008. Main theme: nature. As the work is loading, a quote appears: "It's not safe out here. It's wondrous." The fog shifts to reveal a lone tree, a flock of birds scatter. A deep drone is sounding. When attempting to click on the birds different texts are activated. When managing to "catch" one of the birds, one of the previously dimmed texts will appear.

   Johannes Heldén - 12.07.2011 - 20:22

6. 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

7. Landskaber omkring digtet kompas

   (from Christian Leifelt's personal website) The poem "Kompas" by Morten Søndergaard serves as a literary path for an interactive journey through odd maps, revealing landscapes, cut-up text-fields, fragments of memories, diary notes, snapshots from explored places and signs representing different virtual sights. The inner sleeve from the cd-release serves as a fold-out-map/invtitation for the exhibition.

   Giovanna Di Rosario - 20.10.2011 - 16:16

8. Blue Velvet

   Blue Velvet is a documentary about Hurricane Katrina and its affect upon New Orleans, LA. “Combining sound, text, photography, video, and several maps, the piece sculpts an evocative and poignant landscape that nonetheless refuses all registers of nostalgia, insisting as it does that we locate Katrina and the Crescent City among multiple trajectories of policy, memory, and representation”

   (Source: “Blue Velvet”—Vectors, cited in the Electronic Literature Exhibition catalogue).

   Blue Velvet: Re-Dressing New Orleans in Katrina's Wake" is an interactive essay enabling its users to submerge themselves in a poetic wordscape describing the contours of American racial politics post-Katrina. 

   Artists' Statement

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 30.01.2012 - 12:16

9. Seedsigns for Philadelpho

   An intermedia elegy, animated in Flash created to mark the passing of Brazilian poet, Philadelpho Menezes (1960-2000). As aND explains in the piece, "I was harvesting the seeds of False Blue Indigo (Baptisia Australis) the day I received news Philadelpho had died." The work reveals a series of letters and words formed from seeds to music.

   Davin Heckman - 03.02.2012 - 11:32

10. Taroko Gorge

    A poetry generator produced first in Python and then implemented in Javascript, Montfort's "Taroko Gorge" generates nature poetry about the national park of the same name in Taiwan. Since its initial publication, the program has been hacked, remixed, and reimplemented by a number of other authors.

    Meri Alexandra Raita - 19.02.2012 - 18:10

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