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Taroko Gary
Another take on Taroko Gorge by Nick Montfort. Leonardo Flores uses some of Gary Snyder's words from "Endless Streams and Mountains".
Hannelen Leirvåg - 28.02.2013 - 19:24
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The Longest Poem in the World
This ambitiously titled conceptual poem is generated from Twitter feeds, selected to produce an endless stream of rhyming couplets. As of this posting, the program (developed with MooTools) has generated 1,353,298 verses and continues to generate about 4000 verses each day. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)
Hannelen Leirvåg - 28.02.2013 - 19:53
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@DeleuzeGuattari, Rhiz-o-Mat, PoMoBot
. The first version of the Rhiz-o-Mat was created on the 'm.e.s.s.i.a.h.' site circa May 1995. A Thousand Plateaus recommended a record-album style of reading -- what if it skipped? So young and innocent. Gray backgrounds. A series of meta-tags. A simple quote feeder. "Push Media" was on the cover of Wired. It was all very exciting...
. The list of quotes slowly grew and the background became an officious white, but the structure remained doggedly multilinear. Rigidly lockstep. Oh, but such a clever name! Such an empty container! Tried to make digital dirty -- digital not dirty? Ha ha ha! Eventually, finally, 'messiah' was de-rezed.Leonardo Flores - 07.03.2013 - 17:02
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TransmoGrify
This poem is a celebration of Nick Montfort’s “Taroko Gorge” and the more than 20 remixes made from its source code, leading to what I consider the beginning of a new born-digital poetic form. What Montfort has created with this poem generator is a way to find patterns in endless permutation of limited elements. But the poem is not in the endlessly looping textual output it produces, which is merely a temporary, ever-changing expression of an idea. The poem is in the moment a human intelligence reads that output, for however long necessary, and realizes what the poet wanted to express with those output patterns. The poem is in the pattern, teased out through the manipulation of variables and endless tweaks to the code to get this darned engine to produce something that roughly gestures towards what the poets wish to express. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)
Hannelen Leirvåg - 13.03.2013 - 00:22
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Taroko Gorge [2012 remix]
This edition of “Taroko Gorge” is the only remix published by Nick Montfort, and it generates text from exactly the same code, but it is a significantly different variation from the original. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)
Hannelen Leirvåg - 13.03.2013 - 00:33
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Latour Swag
This Twitter bot produces a mashup of the “Bruno Latourbot” and original tweets that use the #swag hashtag. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)
Hannelen Leirvåg - 08.04.2013 - 14:10
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Working Memory
This minimalist scheduled poem engages our ability to hold language in memory in order to act upon it. The text is displayed on two spaces simultaneously, though the header stream begins first before the second one in the box begins to compete for our attention. Each text is displayed one word at a time at a rapid rate, faster than we have grown used to with works by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries or William Poundstone’s “Project for Tachitoscope.” In those cases the texts are synchronized to music, and potentially accompanied by other graphical elements, but Hatcher’s poem strips away all distractions from the text, which allows attentive readers to focus most of their consciousness on one of two textual streams, since it is virtually impossible to actually read both and make sense of them. You have to choose a track or risk having your train of thought derailed, so to speak, because of the speed at which they are displayed— 170 miliseconds per word (over 5 words per second).
Hannelen Leirvåg - 07.05.2013 - 11:37
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Cannibal Dreams
This elegant hypertext poem consists of 28 links arranged on an excerpt from a book on bone biology. The links are barely distinguishable from the rest of the text, yet lead to poetic language that forms a distinctive contrast to the scientific text in the paragraph. The relation between the two texts isn’t simply tonal counterpoints: they are deeply interconnected, metaphorically and especially thematically.
(Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)
Hannelen Leirvåg - 07.05.2013 - 12:38
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Alphabet of Stars
This responsive visual poem is a study of writing technologies and the word, whether it’s “ink sunk into fibrous paper” or “light through liquid crystals.” Inspired by Stephane Mallarmé’s poetic and theoretical writing as studied by Kittler, Trettien’s JavaScript (& JQuery) work explores the range of shades between the white page and the black sky as backgrounds against which writing can occur with light or ink.
Designed not only for unresponsive screens or pages, this poem is written in code to display and behave in environments that allow for readers to provide input that the words react to. As the reader interacts with the language on the screen through the two interfaces she provides, the text hovers between readability and an illegible typographical overload. And the source code offers no shortcuts, since each letter is separated by extensive code that positions it on the screen. You have to get inside the page and navigate it with the tools offered by your platform.
(Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)
Hannelen Leirvåg - 07.05.2013 - 13:00
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In a World Without Electricity
This is a true story about the untimely death of someone close to the speaker, who seeks to reconstruct the story of her death in a way that can provide closure and hopefully justice. It is also a reflection on analog and digital storytelling and the objects that hold these stories.
The work’s interface displays each portion of this linear narrative as a kind of slideshow, sequentially presenting each piece of the argument and evidence in a way that makes a compelling and moving. In tune with its media, it is very “electric” with plus and minus symbols on the sides of the slideshow (in the shape of a battery) that serve as a navigation interface. The electricity in the title, the battery, shaped interface, the line of ooooooo’s at the base of the slides— which indicates one’s position in the narrative, all seem to symbolically suggest the energy required in a assembling materials and evidence to put together a compelling narrative, one that might lead to an official investigation.
(Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)
Hannelen Leirvåg - 07.05.2013 - 16:15
