52 Card Cinema is an installation-based investigation into cinematic structures and interactive cinema viewership. The concept is simple: 52 cards, each printed with a unique identifier, are replaced in the subject's view by the individual shots that make up a movie scene. The cards can be stacked, dealt, arranged in their original order or re-composed in different configurations, creating spreads of time. The technology used ...
88 Constellations for Wittgenstein (to be played with the Left Hand) is an interactive, non-linear net.art piece that explores the life and philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein through a series of animated vignettes created in Flash.
In "A Dream with Demons," Edward Falco invents a world where bruised adults attempt, over and over, to rewrite the violent scripts of their childhood.
Welcome to Café Passé. In this bizarre restaurant, acclaimed poet Robert Kendall sets a table where reminders of lost love linger everywhere.
A Slow Year is a collection of four games, one for each season, about the experience of observing things. These games are neither action nor strategy: each of them requires a different kind of sedate observation and methodical input.
ABC L.A. is an audio-textual portrait of the city of Los Angeles written in the form of an alphabet primer. The texts are read by the authors over a collage of ambient recordings made throughout the city by Martin Krieger.
"about so many things" randomly displays the activities of "He" and "She" without bias to gender. That is, the activities are drawn from the same pool of possibilities.
A classic of electronic fiction, afternoon is required reading. Complex and richly imagined, this is the story of Peter, a technical writer who (in one reading) begins his afternoon with a terrible suspicion that the wrecked car he saw hours earlier might have belonged to his former wife.
Alphaweb is a hypertext spinning on a central axis: an alphabet of poems. It is a synchronicity generator, a fractal enfoldment, a post-literate act of reconstructionism. -- from "Alphaweb"
Ambient Video is video intended to play on the walls in the backgrounds of our lives. In the spirit of Brian Eno's "ambient music", Ambient Video must be as Eno says: "as easy to ignore as it is to notice." For my own work, I expand Eno's dictum to three interrelated criteria that I want my own ambient video art to meet. First, it must not require your attention at any time. Second, whenever you do look at it it must rew...
"Ambulance" is about some Gen-Xers who run into a string of spectacularly bad luck involving a car accident and a serial killer disguised as an ambulance driver.
The ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature is an output from the ELMCIP researchers based at Blekinge Tekniska Högskola (Blekinge Institute of Technology) in Sweden. The anthology is intended to provide educators, students and the general public with a free curricular resource of electronic literary works produced in Europe.
Although created ten years ago "Arrested" continues to comment meaningfully on the phenomena of social classification and judgment (seemingly) inherent in human society. What makes the project particularly interesting and poignant is that it encourages reflection on the systems of labeling and judgment that are both internal and external.
Bill Mohr reads his epic avant guarde poem "Barely holding distant things apart..." to the music of Mineko Grimmer's primal ice-stone melting sculpture at Beyond Baroque in Venice, California.
Between Page and Screen explores the place of books as objects in an era of increasingly screen-based reading. The pages of this artist's book contain no text-only abstract geometric patterns and a web address leading to this site, where the book may be read using any browser and a webcam.
"Blue Light" is a mobile, location-based narrative written for the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park.
Experimental work by Alan Sondheim
Spanning five generations of swashbuckling Californians, Califia is the story of Augusta Summerland's epic search for a lost cache of gold.
Calling America is an internet-based oral histories project that explores the possibilities of popular communications technologies in the practice of participatory journalism, documentary and the preservation of people's histories.
Cartune Xprez 2008 is a collection of contemporary animated videos...From around the world, this compilation showcases a generation of artists' mind melting cartoons bound by a strong Do-It-Yourself sensibility.
CARTUNE XPREZ's 3rd DVD compilation comes crawling out of a dark cavern into this new decade. It collects 15 new animations: 8 shorts and 7 loops.
"This is what happens when you stay overnight in the Federal Center to catch up on your work. You hear odd noises. Pictures fall off the wall. Then you spy a coyote who is smart enough to know how the world began, but foolish enough to destroy it (maybe) if you don't pay more attention to him." -Back of box
Immerse yourself in a mysterious interactive love story, told through the intense correspondence between Griffin, a young artist from London and Sabine, his enigmatic South Sea Island muse.
Combining a dream like atmosphere and commentaries on such seminal scientific and literary players as Edison, Tesla, Dante and Mary Shelly, Cinema Volta establishes itself as a representation of the modern memoir in the information age.
"Collection" is a short, text driven video about the self-imposed loneliness of a man living behind his video camera. Though a technically simple piece made entirely in LiveType and Final Cut, this brief narrative exposes a raw, unwavering feeling of regret and helplessness.
"Would you like to experience a scotomic episode? Click here. A man, his wife, his lover, and his fantasy: four voices converge, overlap, and ultimately disintegrate." -Back of box
"Contact" is a collaborative event with live electronic music and real-time interactive imaging.
A collection of works from Trace Reddell, including "It's a Psych-Out!," "Society of the Spectacle," "Beginning of the Voyage," and "Replicas," "Stella by Starlight," "FAP," and documentation footage of "microMacroCosm."
Crossed Lines is a multiform (or multiplot) film telling the stories of nine characters in a way that the viewer can constantly explore and switch between all nine forms, and can simultaneously witness all sides of the characters' exchanges which are taking place between the nine remote locations.
Cultures In Webs is an interactive CD-ROM which features hypermedia approaches to cross-cultural filmmaking, photography and new media. The documentary studies interweave text, photos, video clips and audio to offer a discussion about cross-cultural film, photography and the practices of visual anthropology.
Part human and part machine, the cyborg is a familiar figure in cyberpunk science fiction. But this figure looms ever larger -- as metaphor and as reality -- in all our lives. Today, cyborgs are real; in cyberspace, we are all cyborgs.
A compilation of nine ambient audio pieces: "Aftermath," "Aftermath 2," "Aftermath 3," "Bomb," "Ghost," "Ghost 2," "Ghost 3," "Music Experiment," and "Wondering."
A poetic artwork exploring themes related to "home" but also expanding outward from the private into matters related to real estate and land development, economics and the politics of land use. Extensive bibliography included, as well as video and audio clips.
This work is the successor to Intergrams, and was originally published by Eastgate Systems. It is available as a download here. Simultaneities in this work include polylinear "word nets" and subdiagrams.
Rob Swigart calls Directions "a quasi-sentimental pseudo-scientific hyperpoem." Centered on the periodic table of the elements, Directions combines poetic fragments, visual images, prose narrative, and sound to create a deep, dazzling, and often startling work.
Centered on the periodic table of the elements, Directions combines poetic fragments, visual images, prose narrative, and sound to create a deep, dazzling, and often startling work. -Back of box
(Dis)Location, (Dis)Connection, (Dis)Embodiment is a collective experiment in database video and random access narrative.
"Down Time consists of twenty-one stories of the computer age, connected by shared characters, events and objects. A police officer, a terminal patient, a computer technician, and a high-school guidance counselor are just a few of the characters we follow as they try (and fail) to understand themselves, their lovers, and the strangers they meet." -Eastgate Site
Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day - is a CD-ROM - based, extended narrative in hypermedia. Because of the complexity, it was conceived and written, from the beginning, with a variety of software programs.
Compilation of works by Alan Bigelow: When I was President, The Lord's Prayer, Because you Asked, and My Novel.
ENTRE VILLE is a web art poetry project presented in the vernacular of my neighbourhood, where cooking smells, noisy neighbours and laundry lines criss-cross the alleyway one sentence at a time.
Ephémère is iconography evolved through Davies' long-standing practice as a painter, and, as in Osmose, is grounded in 'nature' as metaphor: archetypal elements of root, rock, and stream etc. recur throughout.
Epiglobis is an interactive video that explores consumption, desire, & issues pertaining to globalization. The piece combines non-linear imagery with sounds called from a databank, generating continuously new juxtapositions.
"Fallow Field: A Story in Two Parts" is a work of hypertext-Flash fiction that incorporates sound, animation, and words to tell the story about the end of a marriage.
Frank "Many-Pens" Figurski, paroled after serving six years for killing Professor Quentin Kingsley, is on a mission. Having discovered what is apparently a seventeenth-century mechanical pig washed up on the beach at Findhorn Park, Frank embarks on a quest to determine the pig's authenticity.
The HyperCard version of First Screening was a careful re-creation and recoding of the original, and it extended the life of First Screening a few more years. Still, HyperCard eventually died, leaving the poems unavailable to all but the few who owned a functioning old Mac or an even older Apple IIe and a readable diskette. -Jim Andrews
"Forward Anywhere" explores the outrageous and mundane realities that reach across two lives to make these narrators who they are. This funny, touching work is the first published collaboration by these major figures in hypertext writing and research.
"Nietzsche's aphorisms, metaphors and parables often leave his thought less than clear. Steinhart's clever hypertext and obvious enthusiasm present this great thinker's work with clarity and energy." -Back of box
"The work was part of the cultural program of a party celebrating freedom that took place in April at the famous Sao Paulo club, Vegas. First scholar Lucia Santaella discussed the concept of freedom and then local VJs Spetto, Lucas Bambozzi, duVa, and Helga Stein performed live remixes of Bastus's piece, creating a new version of it that now stands side-by-side with the original. On view until July 15, "Free Radicals" brings t...
In the style of what Gregory Ulmer calls the mystory, Richard Smyth uses the genre-defying capabilities of hypertext to present a case for the power of writing in desperate circumstances. After the narrator's mental meltdown on his honeymoon, he learns that only writing has the power to salvage his sanity and his life.
"The piece is very personal to me as I was brought up in Glasgow, and these rhymes were as well known to me as was more famous nursery rhymes like Humpty Dumpty. All lines of the nursery rhymes are split up and spread around the page. The point is to try and find all the parts of the nursery rhyme and assemble them in the middle in order."
GRENZE consists of sequences called ARTIFICIAL UNITS OF DEVELOPMENT (AUD) that correspond to drawn notes made during my readings of Capital. For each AUD there is a corresponding fragment of the text by Karl Marx. One of the meanings of the german word "grenze" is the limit as a border separating two areas, which by definition can be crossed. GRENZE is a series of visual readings based on "Capital" by Karl Marx (part 1). GR...
Heritage Mythologies is a Live Cinema/Scratch Video performance artwork that utilizes gesture controlled vinyl-tracking technology in conjunction with specialized software in order to edit, manipulate and "scratch" audio/video media in real-time.
Poised between prose and poetry, this acclaimed hypertext draws the reader into artfully recombined scenes of terror and seduction.
Sister Spit was a weekly all-girl open-mic event that lasted for two years in San Francisco, bringing hundreds of girls out of their journals and onto the stage. In 1997, it morphed into a gargantuan coast-to-coast spoken word tour, tugging 12 girls in 2 vans from San Francisco to Provincetown and back. Here are some of the resulting rantings and ravings.
This is a partial mock-up, containing around 30 of the 80 pages that will be in the final volume.
As the cloister fountain gently splashes, browse the four collections - "Art and Ideas," "The American Renaissance," "The Monks' Library," and the "JFK Archives" - in the monastery library's revolving bookcase. -Back of box
"In Immemory, Chris Marker has used the format of the CD-Rom to create a multi-layered, multimedia memoir. The reader investigates "zones" of travel, war, cinema, and poetry, navigating through photographs, film clips, music, and text, as if physically exploring Marker's memory itself." -Back of cover
In Small and Large Pieces is a postmodern Through the Looking Glass. Anna's parents have the bad habit of falling to pieces in any crisis. Anna thinks that's nothing she can't fix, but then the Grand Unified Parent is a little much to deal with...
Intergrams introduces us to a new species in the word forest, an infinity of possibilities, an arena with structure that is still open, that behaves, that invites. Intergrams is the exact analog of the idea that the domain of music is anything which may be heard, or that the domain of the visual arts is anything which may be seen.
"its name was Penelope" is a collection of memories in which a woman photographer recollects the details of her life. Published by Eastgate, and considered one of the classic works of electronic literature, "its name was Penelope" invites the reader to explore an artist's life.
"Jacks in Slow Motion" is a work based on the relationships between anthropology and art. The book deals with the time lived inside prisons. The CD-ROM (which comes with the book) proposes unusual ways of navigating through artistic experiences about the prison. Our collection is missing the book.
"Jargon Reducer" is a handy English Language tool which helps you to understand what is really being communicated.
"Killing Lena" is Lena Soderberg's most famous photo, repeatedly exposed to the image compression techniques she unwittingly helped to develop.
A dark science-fictional ritual of fertility and regeneration, King of Space takes place in an abandoned starship, circling the edges of a plague-ridden and collapsing solar system, where an escaped terrorist meets the last star-captain and his ship's Priestess.
One's memory resonates in sympathy with personal media, the diary, home movie, photograph album. This digital composition explores how a sense of one's past -- perhaps the aura of childhood -- is imagined and represented, and how those representations re-inflect the past.
Flash website of Leo Nuñez's works archived on a CD.
In 1998 Ross Gibson and Kate Richards began collaborating on a suite of works, known collectively as Life After Wartime. In a range of different media, the suite of works responds to an archive of crime scene photographs from Sydney, 1945-60.
A portrait of Coke as an A.I.
A set of four 3D poetry cubes, accompanying documentation, and a hand-written notes from the author. "Loss Sets translates poems co-written by Jordan Scott and Aaron Tucker into sculptures printed by 3D printers. If language is the material from which poetry is built, what becomes of poetry when it sheds language for pure form? What, if anything, is reconciled? What is reimagined? What is lost? Within this nexus of translation...
"The first in the CD Companion series, this inspired and illuminating guided tour of Beethoven's last, great work is the program that established a whole new genre for CD-ROM technology." -Back of cover
Mary-Kim Arnold's "Lust" is a short fiction that experiments with the possibilities of hypertextual combinations of a small number of nodes -- it has 38 nodes and 141 links. The reader encounters violent scenes, a sequence of lovers, the creation and loss of family, blood, and screaming. These sequences -- and their meanings -- differ with the reader's initial choices.
"Mahasukha - the Nepalese Buddhist concept of transcendence through erotic experience." -Back of box
Mapping (2011) is an interactive web-based text which addresses location, geographically, psychologically, and corporeally. By mousing through the text and exploring various options, users reveal layers, edit structure, and help create a unique piece with each iteration. Mapping was created using HTML and JavaScript.
Marble Springs, a complex and lyrical new work in the tradition of Spoon River Anthology and Winesburg, Ohio, explores the lives of the women who built the American West. Marble Springs invites the reader to explore a collection of poems discovered in the ruins of a church in an abandoned ghost town.
Author's Note: This page offers a reproduction of an excerpt from the longer and ongoing work Marginalia in the Library of Babel. That longer narrative presents annotations via the social bookmarking and annotation plugin Diigo, using live web pages. For the sake of maintaining stability for publication, this version uses saved versions of those pages and a custom system for annotations developed by Keith Gustafson. All copyri...
"The continual sound -- part murmur, part jackhammer -- of a mother's voice binds past, present, and possible futures. The unnamed narrator struggles with death, birth, and with the lost loves -- Alwin, J. R., and the Deep Sea Diver -- who populate her psychic landscape. Sensitive, whimsical, and moving." -Back of box
From the website: "The final form of Mouth(s)' lecture(s) is a video performance inspired by Rumanian poet Ghérasim Luca's poetry. It is based on the development and spatial setup of two visual objects : the DIOPTRIC STUDIO and the INKS TABLE, that will produce visual forms. This performance first translates visually a choice of poems, then escapes from the writing to focus on images. Patrick Fontana thus exploits the po...
"My Name Is Captain, Captain" blew us away with its combination of stunning design and poetry of complexity and dimension. At a time when even the best hypertext, on or off the Web, often seems empty and superficial, Morrissey and Talley have used hypertext and motion graphics to create a subtle work of powerful emotional force.
Alone on a mysterious island, you set out to explore its grandeur and mystery. Here, a chilling tale of intrigue and injustice, defying all boundaries of space and time, is being told. Summon your wits and imagination about you.
The Narrative Units project addresses a number of questions by interconnecting several systems of interest. Information Theory, which strictly concerns itself with the encoding and transmission of data, is displaced into the context of a literary narrative. This framing serves to evoke question surrounding the dispersion of Information Theory and other paradigms of first-wave cybernetics into contemporary culture.
"Nature On A Leash" is an idiosyncratic portrait of nature as an extension of the built environment. In this short film, suburbanites collect, redesign, and objectify the "natural world" for its entertainment, recreational and decorative use.
The NoiseFold v1.0 world premiere took place in the spring of 2006 at the Festival Internationale d'Art Video, Casablanca, Morocco. NoiseFold v1.0 was subsequently presented at venues worldwide including: STEIM (Amsterdam, Netherlands), HyperAction Festival (Santa Fe, NM), Interactive Futures (Victoria, BC), Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival [BEAF] (Bellingham, WA), Upgrade Series at 199 Media Arts (Seattle, WA), UNESCO Cre...
Tim McLaughlin's stunning Notes Toward Absolute Zero interweaves historical documents of the ill-fated Franklin expedition with the personal reminiscences of a woman in search of her hypnotist uncle and of the the man who, in turn, searches for her.
Nybble-engineering refers to a method that starts at the programming level of real-time tools. The AV products generated from these, so-called nybble-engine-movies (NEMs), are structurally interactive real-time network films.
In Megan Heyward's new media narrative, of day, of night, a woman has lost the ability to dream. Setting herself a series of creative tasks, she attempts to spark her unconscious into dreaming again.
OneSmallStep: a MySpace LuvStory is an unfolding automated jam - a conscious sampling and randomized regurgitation of MySpace.com media archeology...
Osmose (1995) is an immersive interactive virtual-reality environment installation with 3D computer graphics and interactive 3D sound, a head-mounted display and real-time motion tracking based on breathing and balance.
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.
Pieces is a puzzle story. To read the work, you assemble the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, each piece yielding a portion of narrative. Under your hands, several lives take shape in earnest if sometimes wobbly and unprepossessing assemblages.
Compilation of eleven photos for the Media Art Show in October, 2007.
A performance including live chamber ensemble, electroacoustic soundscape and projected video, Psychodrama is a multiple rescoring of the shower sequence in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
"Quam Artem Exerceas?" "What do you do for a living?" This was the question of Bernardino Ramazzini, the father of occupational medicine. -Back of box
"...Quibbling recreates the experience of writing, of assembling a story from fragments of the experience, connecting this empowering process of assembly with the process by which we assemble ourselves and our lives." -Eastgate Product Page
Random Haiku for the Millennial Shift employs randomized text to create haiku that echo these times. A new poem is created every 20 seconds out of 3.5 million possible haiku.
"Red Planet, an educational DVD-ROM for home, library, or school use, employs the latest multimedia technology to offer in-depth, cross-disciplinary analysis of Mars as both an object of scientific study and a cultural artifact." -Front of box
This multi-media graphic memoir is a history of jazz, a personal story, and a reflection on the allure and the illusions of discovering something seemingly authentic in a lost cache of decades old audio recordings.
Nine richly imagined works make up this sampler quilt of hypertext. Stories of spirits returned to haunt the living, of memories that stubbornly refuse to fade, and of children far wiser than their parents.
A showcase of animated shorts from the Savannah College of Art and Design
Wardrip-Fruin's interactive media art piece entitled "Screen" is an example of digital installation art. To view and interact with the piece, a user first enters a room, called the "Cave," which is a virtual reality display area with four walls surrounding the participant. White memory texts appear on the background of black walls. Through bodily interaction, such as using one's hand, a user can move and bounce the text around...
"Ten hypertext poems explore themes of memory, desire, solitude, loss, and age, in the tradition of Rimbaud, Baudelaire, and Gertrude Stein." -Back of box
Second Front is the pioneering performance art group in the online avatar-based VR world, Second Life. Second Front creates theatres of the absurd that challenge notions of virtual embodiment, online performance, and the formation of virtual narrative.
Shilihe is the market where the buying and selling of singing and fighting crickets takes place in Beijing [known as cricket culture in English]. While some local people think this is a dying custom and believe only 'old Beijingers' are interested, others believe the custom is being sustained with new interest from younger people being observed.
Filled with beautiful graphics and animations, "Shining Flower" describes the journey of a wanderer and a search for fulfillment. Part meditation, part fantasy, "Shining Flower" is an intriguing story of the wanderer's quest for enlightenment within a mysterious world.
"Shy Boy" is, like all of my born-digital work, a collaboration between myself and artists working in design, animation, and sound. For what it's worth, the boy in this piece is a version of my own son when he was in late elementary school. Like many new media poems, this one is an experiment in both how to read and how to listen. Its pacing and animated erasures are meditative and intended to be so quiet as to be nearly "unde...
Sky and Wires: At Home and Homeless is a response to a contemporary life of engaging with places not as a space to be, but as a space to chart a trajectory through.
slippingglimpse is a 10-part interactive regenerative Flash poem combining text with videos of ocean patterns seen along the Atlantic coast (chreods).
Socrates in the Labyrinth is a wide-ranging exploration of the relationships between hypertext, thought, and argument. Does hypertext present alternatives to the logical structures of if-then, claim and support?
SOFTIES are wrinkled squirming typographic poems created by David Jhave Johnston (glia.ca) under production in 2009. SOFTIES are possible thanks to the prototype Mr Softie software (http://www.mrsoftie.net/ ).
Something That Happened Only Once is panoramic work recorded in Coyocan Plaza, Mexico City. The work blends the actions of actors and non-actors in the natural setting on a busy Saturday afternoon.
What lies in between cognition and sensation? Often conflicting forces that produce tension. On this edge between safety and danger there is an oscillation wrought with anxiety and ecstasy. This piece explores this threshold.
"Start at the End" is an HTML-based hypertext fiction that contains text-plateaus, images, and music. These three modes of signification work together to evoke three virtual spaces: mental, public, and private.
"Storyland v2" is a randomly created narrative which plays with social stereotypes and elements of popular culture. Each paragraph is constructed from a pool of possibilites, allowing each reader a unique story.
Atlantic Flyways is a continuation of the Augury videos that I began while in graduate school...this series of videos traces the great Atlantic Flyway, the seasonal migration route that attracts both millions of birds and thousands of birders.
This work comprises 9 very densely layered "nested simultaneities." It is an almost pure spatial hypertext. The only structuring is clusters inside clusters nested several layers deep.
"The Breathing Wall" is told using text, image and sound. The story is told in parts, alternating between day-dreams (which reside in Flash movies) and night-dreams. The night-dreams reside within the Hyper Trance Fiction Matrix, an experimental software that allows the story to respond to the listener's rate of breathing.
THE CAPE was written, designed, built and copyright by me, J. R. Carpenter, in 2005. Many DHTML and javascripts were injured during the making of this web site. I used HomeSite 4.0. Dreamweaver plotted the timelines. All other code credits remain intact inside the source code.
This iteration of The Devil's Rope Journal was created by Randy Adams (aka runran, Can), Chris Joseph (aka babel, Can/UK) and Christine Wilks (aka crissxross, UK). It began as a series of imaginary DVD covers presented as digital images in R3//1X//0RX tongue-in-cheek commentaries on new media in general.
An open, richly interlinked web of Dickens' world, The Dickens Web is designed to be extensible and adaptable. The Dickens Web is the landmark of the great experiment in hypertextual teaching and research begun by Landow and others in the Intermedia project at Brown.
You are dead. For your horrible unspeakable crime, burial is denied you. There will be no heaven or hell for you. As long as you are unburied, your soul cannot escape your body and you must endure the days and years to come, able to perceive but unable to act.
The Electronic Literature Collection is a periodical publication of current and older electronic literature in a form suitable for individual, public library, and classroom use.
The Electronic Literature Collection is a periodical publication of current and older electronic literature in a form suitable for individual, public library, and classroom use...volume 2 is available on a USB flash drive, both in a cases appropriate for library processing, marking, and distribution.
The Good Captain is an adaptation of Herman Melville's novella "Benito Cereno." Melville's original story relies upon the main character's first-person perceptions of the events that unfold in front of him. This reliance on P.O.V. is why I chose to distribute the story using the web service Twitter.
Selected video of the generative art installation.
When Tethys House set out to resurrect our century's most beloved writer as a simulacrum, something went wrong. We don't know what. They tried to hide it. But strange transmissions leaked out anyway, morphing illegally through analog and digital forms: uploaded to pirate servers, broadcast in binary on UHF frequencies, printed in bulk and left on street corners. Now for the first time all the verified Ice-Bound transmissions a...
Like many great works of literature, Alfred Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam is densely allusive and referential, a sort of hypertext in the making; but since In Memoriam was composed in discrete parts meant to be read reflectively and in juxtaposition, this work lends itself particularly well to hypertextual treatment.
In this short video, original footage taken from locations high above the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines is combined in one nearly symmetrical image.
I interviewed Diana Slattery, the author of "The Glide Project" and "The Maze Game," during April 2003 in Switzerland...Readers will come to realize, as I have, that Slattery possesses a fascinating and highly innovative mind and that her work is a reflection of that.
Saint Caterina of Pedemonte is meant as an experiment in digital narrative published on a CD-ROM. This project aspires to illustrate the many voices, which shape our perceptions of past events and people.
MPE creates a virtual reality experience where three players collaborate to produce a multimedia art installation-comprised of light, music, spoken word, video, and animation-on the fly in real-time, with the help of motion tracking and webcam technologies.
"They were as devoted as Romeo and Juliet, Bogart and Bacall, Lennon and Ono. They expected the world to envy them. When it didn't, they became simply more convinced that theirs was a love the world could not understand. Were they visionaries, or just crazy? Decide for yourself, based on what you read, in what order." -Eastgate Site
The Perseus Project is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the humanities. Collaborators initially formed the project to construct a large, heterogeneous collection of materials, textual and visual, on the Archaic and Classical Greek world.
The Unknown is a collaborative hypertext novel written during the turn of the millennium and principally concerning a book tour that takes on the excesses of a rock tour. Notorious for breaking the "comedy barrier" in electronic literature, The Unknown replaces the pretentious modernism and self-conciousness of previous hypertext works with a pretentious postmodernism and self-absorption that is more satirical in nature. It is...
"The Wave" is an electronic text derived from a series of media performances. The work explores and articulates a collection of meditations on myth, metaphor, and embodiment.
During the last Ice Age, Homo sapiens were tested as to whether they could survive extreme climatic conditions. Not only did our ancestors survive, they generated an art that has never been surpassed on the scale of its multimedia daring.
Exploring connections between surveillance and interference in the lives of artists, "The Wedding Celebration of Gunter and Gwen" is a hyperlibretto where the experience of a wedding celebration is created with words, graphic icons, and glockenspiel intermezzi.
"Things of Day and Dream" is a short poem about the liminal space between waking and dreaming. Divided into 13 phrases, the work is laid out into two main parts of the performance space.
"Hill Academy occupies an ancient and well-tended campus not far from Troy. Hill has educated the children of the provincial elite since its foundation back in the colonial days. Graduates of Hill have included prime ministers, leaders of industry, scientists and scholars and churchmen, and plenty of their wives as well." -from website
In my videos, I seek to create moments of perceptual disruption, through which the audience may become conscious of the cultural and technological mediation of their vision. This disruption is focused on the moment of the cut, as the edit point can push the viewer between different viewing states.
TOC is a multimedia epic about time: the invention of the second, the beating of a heart, the story of humans connecting through time to each other and to the world.
Times two. {press release hostages}
Transmuting worlds, lives, and idioms into a powerful whole, Strickland brings together Bell's Theorem, quaternions, Noah Webster, Mother Goose, laser gyroscopes, the lives of Emily Dickinson and Josiah Willard Gibbs, the Amistad mutiny, and the MX missile, to tap a human voice deep within universal abstraction.
"In this hypertextual coming-of-age novel, Adri Sumner's wish to forget his troubled childhood paradoxically launches him on a journey of self-discovery. His quest takes him through suburban pizza parlors, Ivy League parties, a brush with the penal system, and an adventure in courtroom deconstruction." -Eastgate Site
Twilight, A Symphony is an innovative exploration of home, family, and the nostalgia that can't ever quite replace them. At the heart of Twilight is erstwhile reporter Hugh Colin Enright. Estranged from his wife, on the run, and sequestered with his infant son on the shores of Pleasant Lake, Hugh is befriended by an eccentric Polish politcal refugee and his wife, Magda.
Art "Buddy" Newkirk has disappeared and left you his literary estate. By the looks of it, he and his friends were a very odd bunch. You might have enjoyed knowing them. But you don't - why does "Uncle" Buddy think you do? Where is he, anyway? And what does this have to do with Meister Eckhart and the New York City subway?
Uncle Roger is a work of comedic narrative poetry. In the years that this story was created, the writer - who had also lived in the locale of the Silicon Valley semiconductor industry -- was immersed in an early online environment which included many people from Silicon Valley and the computer culture.
"Underbelly" is a playable media fiction about a woman sculptor, carving on the site of a former colliery in the north of England, now landscaped into a country park. As she carves, she is disturbed by a medley of voices and the player/reader is plunged into an underworld of repressed fears...
Unnatural Habitats sings the poetry of primitive submarines, crippled spaceships, and basement apartments. Canadian poet Kathy Mac explores the consequences of American idealism, from the Apollo 13 tragedy to the U.S. invasion of Kuwait.
Velvet explores states of mind, dreams and memory which are both whimsical and disturbing. The project has four sections that transition one into another. Interactivity plays a significant role, not only for navigation, but also for the generation of meaning.
The Gulf War and its media frenzy serves as the backdrop for this Dickensian tale of campus politics, seduction, burglary, dissent, unsafe driving, and war.
A collection of works by Kelly Raine. Demo reels.
"Virtual DJ" uses the tracking capabilities of the Gesture and Media System, invented by APR Inc., to enable one or more participants to use space as a performance tool.
On Meleá/Calidri: All is number in the computer. I take numeric models and see what songs and pictures they will make. How can I map numbers to the senses--turn numbers into a tangible experience? Then I wonder how the senses map to each other. I map the maps.
We Descend is an artifactual hypertext, which takes the form of an archive of writings by different authors over a vast span of time. It contains the writings of a Scholar who discovers documents he believes to have been written or collected by one Egderus, who lived many generations before...
In the film "when" Ottar Ormstad is transferring his practice as concrete poet to the realm of a programmable networked space, blending his poetry with specially composed modern music with electronic elements.
"When Ghosts Will Die" is a performance-installation utilizing multi-sensory elements such as sound, video, light, and images controlled by motion-tracking technology that tells the story about the dangers of nuclear proliferation.
"When you cut into the present, the future leaks out" includes short video and audio clips played randomly by a computer, creating a "cut-up" video collage.
Winterscape explores the relationship between form, content and visual flow in the context of the landscape of the Canadian Rockies.
Hypertext theorist George P. Landow opens his fiction workshop to bring you the excitement of reading and writing hypertext with 16 talented young artists. The core of this work is based on Landow's memorable keynote speech to The Hypertext Conference, in which he demonstrated the interconnection between avante-garde writing and the world of technical discourse.
Xenolinguistics, defined in science fiction as the study of alien languages, is re-defined in the context of psychedelics and communication with the Other. Psychedelics can enable a broad and paradoxical spectrum of linguistic phenomena from the unspeakability of mystical experience to the eloquence of the songs of the shaman or curandera.
CHAOSity questions the "linear, rigidly logical development of plot" and the "facile interpretation of life's complexities" that strict adherence to lenearity can imply. CHAOSity begame with analysis of existing works and theory, and ended with the creation of a collabroative, orgininal cultural work that involves individual readers as co-creators. The resulting multi-threaded story, told in text, animation, images and sound, ...
This edition was presented for "A Celebration of Multimedia" on April 4th, 2001.
http://komninos.com.au/underground/entry.html
Random Haiku for the Millennial Shift employs randomized text to create haiku that echo these times. A new poem is created every 20 seconds out of 3.5 million possible haiku. This work is a homage to early net artists.
he Unknown is a collaborative hypertext novel written during the turn of the millennium and principally concerning a book tour that takes on the excesses of a rock tour. Notorious for breaking the "comedy barrier" in electronic literature, The Unknown replaces the pretentious modernism and self-conciousness of previous hypertext works with a pretentious postmodernism and self-absorption that is more satirical in nature. It is ...
A studio recording of Left Field's original music.
Jason Nelson's "Another Emotion" is a digital poem about the word "pattern." Nelson uses seven different colors to distinguish the seven parts of the poem. Each section is accompanied by a distinct piano soundtrack as well as an image that can be revealed by rolling over a highlighted word in the text. If any number of special words is clicked, the viewing will be randomly placed, and pictures will show on the back. Nels...
The "Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot" is a poem written by Stephanie Strickland as a score for a hypertext implementation, coded by Janet Holmes. Its images are suggestive of digital or mathematical culture, including Webcam photos, a core dump, an animated fractal, and algorithmic patterns inscribed in sand by a computer-driven steel ball.
"A kinetic and interactive piece of fiction based on the historical French folk tale Bluebeard. The piece depicts a sinister love story but unlike most literature, the work uses flash. This distinct creation gives Leishman's unique portrayal of the historical events regarding a diabolical husband who gives his latest wife a key to his bloody chamber. He stresses that she must not enter the room however, out of curiosity she g...
"In Concatenation, the machine of the text assembles poems that deal with the ability of language to enact violence."
"In "Deviant: The Possession of Christian Shaw," Donna Leishman uses a series of animated images to tell the story of Christian Shaw, an almost eleven year old girl who lives in Balgarran. This is an exploratory piece that allows the user to experience Christian's world."
The poem overtly instructs readers to explore the piece in different ways and offers us three navigational tools: a scheduled linear reading in which the poem unfolds before us like a film, a series of linked o's beneath the Flash canvas, and linked words in each node that form different loops of their own. Each node delicately layers sounds of nature, garden images, animations of frogs and butterflies, quotes, and scheduled p...
Hypertext version of volume one of Marx's Capital with multimedia elements. Includes the complete text of the translation by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling with a preface by Bret Schultz. Multimedia elements include both graphics and music.
A compilation from the sound poetry festival Krikri in Gent 2003. Tracks by Paul De Vree, Moniek Darge & Karin De Fleyt, Michael Lentz, Eduard Escoffet, Tholomé & Dicenaire, Maja Ratkje, Jan van der Hoeven, Henbing Li, Godfried-Willem Raes, Jean-Pierre Bobillot, Serge van Duijnhoven, Maja Jantar and Jelle Meander. Includes "Joy" from the album Voice by Maja Ratkje.
My Name Is Captain, Captain. (2002) is a collaborative poem written in a language of word and image. The central navigational metaphor is dead reckoning, or, flying blind, and the work as a whole has a peculiar relationship to the golden age of flight.
This is a collection of the artists works, including: la cipolla; breathe; desire; e[y]gg[e]; the shrine; & vib~ratio~n
Leishman's playful retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale makes use of comic book vernacular, limited forms of explorative interaction, optional narrative paths, and a jazzy soundtrack. RedRidinghood is the type of Flash piece that suggests the potential for complex forms of interactive storytelling without typographic text.
""Symbol Rock" is a hybrid text, inspired by hypertext, computer games, multi-media databases, activity books, "coffee table" books and children's pop-up books. It is above all a documentary text, based on extensive research, and capturing the voices of dozens of informants" -- Marie-Laure Ryan
"This work is in a game framework that explores the reader's interaction with the text. As the reader reads more nodes, more of the "princesses" are born or die. It evokes the Stanley Milgram shock experiments on a lighter note -- will you continue reading if your characters are dying?" - Wikipedia
The Réal, Las Vegas, Nevada is an electronic artist's book featuring the writing of Mark C. Taylor and José Márquez, illustrated by Ralph Kelliher and José Márquez, and programmed by Noah Peeters. A multimedia CD-ROM, The Réal runs on both Windows 95 and Macintosh OS platforms. It is published jointly by Williams College Museum of Art and Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and distributed by the U...
To Be Here as Stone Is is a print poem in True North and a heavily linked node in True North Hypertext. It is also a hypermedia poem made with M.D. Coverley.
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