Brian Kim Stefans’ Dibagan recounts the story of a reporter and his cameraman who were caught in an RPG attack against a foreign troop convoy in Iraq. Stefans includes five bars at the bottom of the screen which consistently change color between green and red. Directly above these bars lie a jumble of words (“consuming, culminates, stumbling, curdles, fisheye,” etc…) which…
Author: ahunter2
Castro’s Pixel Party – Informative Visual Poetics
Over 70 images line the left-hand side of E.M. de Melo e Castro’s Algorritmos page in the Digital PO.EX file library. These images of digital poetry use visual space to convey emotion, experience, and pain through a digital medium. To me, the Algorritmos look like kinetic typography frozen in time: a still shot. Titled “insigno panoramic (39),” this .jpg boasts…
Cee Lo Green is at the forefront of the digital age.
Cee Lo Green released a video for his hit single, Fuck You (Sept 1, 2010), which expressly uses kinetic typography to relay the lyrics and message of the song. The video begins with a fade from black using a vignette filter. Text appears in white and is presented in all caps—usually in one or two sentences. Square text blocks are…
Judy Malloy, Uncle Roger, and the hyper-textual narrative
Judy Malloy’s 1986 project, Uncle Roger, was first written in UNIX and BASIC and first published on the Web in 1995. It is considered the first project of its kind to rely on a reader’s unique choices to develop a narrative. Her work synthesizes computer-based information with visual art. She gives the reader access and the tools to navigate a…