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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. petite brosse à dépoussiérer la fiction

    petite brosse à dépoussiérer la fiction" (small brush to dust off fiction) is a generative piece written in French. A scene of thriller is generated at each time you run the program or ask for a new scene. This scene explores different possibilities of a scenario. But the reader must continually "dust" a picture that covers the text while reading. The text is a pastiche: the scene is located at a time in a single location. Some features happen out of this room, they are computed by  the program but not expressed into the narrative. The piece begins with some "adapted" poems by Jean de La Fontaine.

    (Source: The ELO 2012 Media Art Show.)

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 23.04.2012 - 14:03

  3. MyNovel.org

    MyNovel.org (2006) takes six classic novels (Moby DickUncle Tom's CabinThe Scarlet LetterLolita1984, and On The Road) and compresses them into four sentences apiece; at any point, if visitors wish to, they can write their own four sentence novel by using the tools included on the site.

    (Source: Artist's description, 2008 ELO Media Arts show)

    eabigelow - 28.06.2012 - 03:25

  4. Una Selva Oscura

     Inspired by one of Tom Phillips' illustration for his Dante's Inferno (Talfourd Press, 1983), "Una selva oscura" is a digital visual poetry framework providing readers with different poems and the possibility to write their own. 
     

    Artist Statement:

    My work has been driven by three main themes: interpretation through adaptation, little acts of unacknowledged violence, and the expression of a sexual self. What is at stake in those themes is three aspects of the act of representation. By adapting somebody else's work, I present it anew, in a different context that has to do with the original work but also with my reaction to it, my interpretation of it. By representing little acts of violence in an absurd, cynical or sarcastic way, I provide a depiction of them that acknowledges what would otherwise be left unspoken. By expressing a sexual self that is feminine and feminist, outspoken and in charge of her sexuality, I provide the representation of a reality that is too often left in the dark because of taboos, repression and censorship. 

    Scott Rettberg - 13.01.2013 - 18:08

  5. Front

    Originally commissioned by New Media Scotland as part of their Alt-W Cycle 9, Leishman’s latest work Front is a pre-programmed Facebook parody that addresses the major issues of social media—privacy and voyeurism. Front’s interface whilst mimicking the immersive, interaction rich promise of social media, instead reminds us of where the power structures lie, and what is often freely given up by the user/viewer. A contemporary retelling of the Apollo and Daphne myth, Daphne, our protagonist shares her predilections, thoughts and meticulously crafted “selfies”—she has excellent taste (her Front friends tell her so), but all is not as it seems. The narrative moves towards a climax that presents the perils of misrepresentation with the darker side of self-presentation. Front contains a faux IM chat facility that intrudes on the viewer’s passive reading of the interaction dead “timeline”, upsetting the expected sense of presence and time within the project.

    Hannah Ackermans - 10.09.2015 - 10:06