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I Love You
This poem is structured as a cloud consisting of language and sail-shaped figures. This complex set of objects contain the sentence “I love you,” “my love,” and “I will love you forever” in several languages, colors, and positions and responds with rotation along different axes depending upon the position of the pointer on the screen. The spherical shape of the rotation along with the translations of the sentence gesture towards its universality. If this were to be dedicated to someone, it delivers a message of a love that will express itself no matter where the pointer— the symbolic presence of the reader in the text— is moved to.
(Source: Leonardo Flores)
Helene Helgeland - 12.11.2012 - 14:48
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Nomad Lingo
From April 1, 2000 to April 1 2001, David Jhave Johnston launched his career as a digital poet with a year of poetry experiments using Flash. Titled “Nomad Lingo,” he published several e-poems every month— producing a treasure trove of works that attest to his raw talent, whimsical style, and the ability to create a lyrical voice through lines that are both sensuous and theoretically engaging.
Some aspects he experiments with is how kinetic language and pacing can evoke different meanings and shape tone. For example, the flame-like words in “Watching Fire” is so much more relaxing than the frantic “Me Critters.” Similarly, the lines in “Ceaseless,” while fast-paced, are readable and put reader’s at ease, while “Flood” overwhelms the reader with its accelerating pace and movement. He also works with minimalist interactivity in “Irreconciliable” and “Tsunami” by making the letters and lines respond to mouseovers to reveal other texts.
(Source: Leonardo Flores)
Helene Helgeland - 12.11.2012 - 15:01
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Passing Through
This multimedia hypertext work weaves together unpopulated images, ambient sounds, and the text of overheard conversations in several cities to produce an immersive experience of a journey. Best experienced in cinematic conditions (good speakers or headphones, large screen, dark room, no distractions, fullscreen browser window), this is a navigationally minimalist. Each image has an area you can click on to go to the next, and it’s not difficult to find, since it tends to be large and placed over a focal point in the photograph. The simplicity of the interface and knowing from the outset that it is a linear experience, allows readers to relax into the work and not be distracted by wondering about where to go or what decision to make. The sounds and scheduled presentation of the texts also encourage paucity and reflection on the whole sequence of images as a whole. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)
Scott Rettberg - 01.01.2013 - 18:38
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Uncontrollable Semantics
This minimalist poem hovers right on the edge of being an art piece, because each of its 50 environments offers a different mouse-driven (aimed?) interface and music. The four words positioned on the screen’s cardinal points create a space amid them that is both conceptual and a canvas. What is the relation between words positioned in opposite spaces? How do they relate to the title to each section? How do the sound and animation relate to the words and title? Clicking on the words lead to another node in this wondrously strange hypertext… This intriguing art poem is highly entertaining, as long as you can abandon thoughts of meaning and simply enjoy playing with the piece.
(Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)
Scott Rettberg - 01.01.2013 - 22:56
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Chronicle of Deaths Forgotten
This piece juxtaposes images of the Statue of Liberty and looped segments of powerful choral music with textual excerpts of small lives lost and forgotten. Their stories are partly hidden by the interface, its size and color contrasts, as different words and the background itself change color over time and as the result of mouseovers. Duc Thuan makes these texts deliberately challenging to read while the Statue of Liberty is foregrounded and shown in great details, perhaps to dare its readers to allow the texts to fade into the background, becoming complicit in the forgetting of these chronicles. After all, who remembers the “poor,” the “huddled masses,” the “homeless” welcomed to the United States by this unforgettable new colossus? (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)
Hannelen Leirvåg - 02.02.2013 - 12:28
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Simplicity
Using frames, pop-up windows, animated GIFs, error codes, forms, and pop up menus, this suite of 10 short e-poems written between 1998-2000 by Vietnamese poet Duc Thuan are a snapshot of the pre-2000 Web and its concerns. The interface is minimalist, evoking the title, and the works themselves are simple to operate yet their content suggests an ironic relation to the title. From the opening, Thuan establishes an aesthetic of code and malfunctioning in “Crash,” an idea explored throughout the suite in poems like “The Hidden and the Shown,” “Interact,” and “Interact.” “Imaguage of Consciousness” accompanies images of Web advertising banners along with jarringly loud music to warn us of directions we should avoid. The final poem “Diary of a Drunkard I Only Met Once” uses the simple interface of nested menus to organize a poem in way that provide multliple reading possibilities and stanzas embedded within lines, something evocative of Jim Rosenberg’s work. These are deceptively simple works, worthy of focused attention to appreciate their complexities. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)
Hannelen Leirvåg - 02.02.2013 - 12:44
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Still Life
This ironically titled poem is inspired by Eadweard J. Muybridge’s studies in motion photography of living creatures. Muybridge experimented with different ways of capturing the motion of living beings using a variety of photographic technologies and joining individual photographs to create animated sequences. With the image rotation interface he creates for this poem, juxtaposed with the rhyming lines of verse that are displayed on a loop (a rotation in time), LeMay poem leads us to reflect on the stillness and motion, time and space, the body and its representation. The looping sounds of a heartbeat and the ticking of a clock triggered by mousing over images are a reminder that there is no such thing as stillness in life. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)
Hannelen Leirvåg - 08.02.2013 - 14:50
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Teleport
This “tiny tale of tourism between bodies” is a poetic narrative about an alien being that teleports into a human body and what ensues. This poem is structured into 123 lines and 121 background images with titles, and allows readers to play through the work on a fairly rapid schedule or use arrows to navigate from line to line, image to image. Clicking on the screen repositions the text, which may allow readers to move the text to a more readable space on the photograph, but otherwise doesn’t seem to contribute much to the content. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)
Hannelen Leirvåg - 08.02.2013 - 16:40
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Superstitious Appliances
This set of six thematically linked poems revolve around appliances and obsessions about the body. From the outset, the Nelson seeks to unsettle the reader by taking a medieval, religious kind of image and placing it over a layer of what seems to be digital static, while a couple of soft audio tracks play: one a barely audible person speaking, and a throaty voice repeating “I will eat you.” As the reader explores this surface and clicks on links to go to the poems, she will be unsettled further by entering environments that respond to their presence in various ways. There is a learning curve for each poem as the reader figures out the interface enough to be able to read the texts, which increases the exposure to the environments Nelson has crafted for each short poem. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)
Hannelen Leirvåg - 08.02.2013 - 17:14
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Birds Still Warm from Flying
The energy of the looped music clip and the whimsically tactile image of its title set the tone for a poem (or 43 quintillion poems) composed of lines about human relationships, spaces in buildings, medical procedures, books, computers, and more. Jason Nelson frames this poem as a mature cube interface poem, and it is difficult to disagree, when juxtaposed with his earlier work in this vein “The Poetry Cube.” The cube interface is more polished in its physicality as a manipulable three dimensional object, with Rubik’s Cube dynamics that allow for up to 4.3×1019 possible permutations of its 42 lines and 12 videos. Each face is preset with a color for its numbered lines of verse and short looping video clips of some sort of movement (on foot, by bus, in a car) in an urban setting. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)
Hannelen Leirvåg - 08.02.2013 - 17:40
