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1. Campbell's Soup Town

   This piece was commissioned as part of the Edge of Elsewhere project in 2010 and exhibited in January 2011 in the Campbelltown Arts Centre near Sydney, Australia. As part of the project, the Campbelltown City Council announced workshops with YHCHI as follows:

   In the iconic text animation style of Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, the finished work will tell a story of a futuristic city, dreamt up by participants using the animations they develop in the workshops.

   The resulting narrative is deliciously absurd story of a town taken over by Campbell’s soup company where”everything is made from soup and for soup.” The narrative that follows is a wicked critique of neoliberalism, factory towns, corporate appropriation of the world, pop and op art, with reverse Soylent Green undertones andcould be described as a kind of science fiction magical realism. The original electronica music is kitschy enough to be described as cheesy (pardon the pun, but this piece is full of them), enhancing its self aware campiness.

   (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

   Hannelen Leirvåg - 28.02.2013 - 19:30

2. @georgelazenby : How Goes the Enemy?

   This conceptual video poem takes the idea of scheduled presentation to a mind-boggling scale. It consists of 19 lines from the @georgelazenby Twitter feed presented in 5-second loops times its factorial factorial, so upon launching, the first line will play right away (5x0), the second will play after 5 seconds (5x1), the third after 10 seconds (5x2), the fourth after 30 seconds (5x6), the fifth after 2 minutes (5x24), the sixth after 10 minutes (5x120), the seventh after 1 hour (5x720), the eighth after 7 hours (5x5040), the eighth after 2 days and 8 hours (5x40320), the ninth after 21 days (5x362880), and… you get the idea. It not only becomes impractical but humanly impossible, since the time scale continues to grow line by line until it is longer than the age of the universe. Can you keep the computer running continuously for more than the 6 years it takes to reach line 11? How about the 75 years after that to reach line 12?

   (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

   Hannelen Leirvåg - 28.02.2013 - 20:02

3. Puddle

   This kinetic concrete poem, along with its companion piece “Paddle”, is a minimalist statement of how meaningful the movement of words can be. Using three words with simple animation, Hennessy is able to build a narrative of the formation of a puddle and what happens after. The timing and spacing of the downward flow of language in this poem sets up a variation in the final part of the poem, as we get a little bit of upwards movement, combined with an insight on the shared etymology (or orthography) of the first and final words in the poem. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

   Hannelen Leirvåg - 28.02.2013 - 20:16

4. Bus

   “Bus” creates a soundscape of the interior of a bus in an urban location, and then uses a black screen for over a minute at the beginning of the piece to focus our attention on the aural information. When the narrative prose starts to flow on the screen, the narrator can focus on describing what he sees and we become immersed in his observations without needing further elaboration on the setting we’re in. The wandering eye approach to this and the next poem yields acute observations of human behavior while revealing much about the narrator & speaker. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

   Hannelen Leirvåg - 09.03.2013 - 21:22

5. GIF-Poems

   This selection of six poems built with a type of composite image known as animated GIFs used to create the earliest animations in the Web. In Zervos’ experienced hands (see his “Dimocopo” suite), this simple technology can be very expressive indeed, as can be seen in “Divorce” a kinetic concrete poem that uses moving typography to highlight some of the finer points in a divorce process. The narrative poem seen above, “A Kidz Story,” is best experienced in action because it is a story generator designed with nine animated GIFs, one per line, each with a different time interval between lines. This allows for different combinations to emerge over time, providing the illusion of variation in what eventually becomes very formulaic and repetitive— an incisive comment on the genre it represents. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

   Hannelen Leirvåg - 09.03.2013 - 21:43

6. Debasheesh Parveen and Ariadna Alfil

   These two “Facebots” (Facebook bots) were created in the last days of 2009 and quickly began to make friends, post images, and make cryptic status updates, commenting on each other’s updates. They started a relationship on January 13, 2010 and got married (that is, changed their relationship status to “married” on Facebook) on March 21, 2010. Ever since they have both been making status updates automatically every hour, (Ariadna every 2 hours) using the algorithm described below:

   Debasheesh Parveen is one of the 99 Sacred Names of the Internet. It is also an algorithm:

   1. Debasheesh Parveen takes a random news headline from the Al Jazeera feed.
   2. The headline is distorted using a text-manipulation algorithm.
   3. One of the words of the headline is chosen to search for an image on the Internet.
   4. The headline and the image are posted to Debasheesh Parveen’s Facebook profile.

   This happens automatically, at regular intervals.

   Quoted from I ♥ E-Poetry entry and Tisselli's description.

   Leonardo Flores - 12.03.2013 - 18:14

7. 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

8. det sublime

   A Young-Hae Chang-inspired piece on football, also challenging Kants concept on the sublime

   Sissel Hegvik - 02.04.2013 - 20:55

9. I Cried Of Course

   This multimedia version of William Minor’s poem takes the musical version and adds a layer of photographic documentation that brings out the personal and particular in the poem. The sad tone of the poem’s text is underscored by the piano and vocal performances, and the images help us visualize the details of what is behind this emotional energy. Here we see a man and a woman in black and white photographs, young, together, and happy to be there. Other images of the woman alone gazing out of the photograph’s frame, in one case wearing a wedding dress, suggest that the memory of the deceased young man is still alive within her. Images of manuscript versions of the poem, including drafts and handwritten musical scores show the work in progress, evolving from one version to the next. All of these objects— manuscripts, scores, photographs, audio recordings, and e-poem— seek to capture that which can only be experienced or imagined.

   (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

   Hannelen Leirvåg - 28.04.2013 - 17:08

10. Expansive Mayhem

    The interpretive dance performance seeks to evoke the experience of a concussion and does so by clustering six dancers on a side of the stage using red lighting to suggest a sense of the inside of the speaker’s head. When the dancers are clustered, swaying semi-coherently, they evoke the sense of a brain function normally, but as the piece progresses it begins to unravel, as the dancers spiral out of control. Their disjointed movements as they each dance on their own, spread around the stage mimics the cognitive impact of a concussion, echoed by the language hovering over them. The dance performance concludes by returning to normal function, urgently, as one of the dancers runs around the reorganized collective, as if trying to hold them together by sheer force of will as the screen and stage fade to black, leading us to wonder. Has the brain been healed? Has normal language function returned?

    “Expansive Mayhem”
    Choreography: Julia Tedesco and Ellie Sanna
    Poetry: Loss Pequeño Glazier (“Io Sono At Swoons “)
    Music: Jai Uttal and Ben Leinbach
    Dancers: Melissa Hunt, Marika Matsuzak, Stephanie Ohman, Sammi Pfieffer, Samantha Will, Jessica Viglianco

    Hannelen Leirvåg - 28.04.2013 - 18:38

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