I chose to explore the game this is how you will die by James Nelson. I chose this game since this past week my grandfather is dying, my childhood dog has to be put down soon, my cousins dad killed himself, and my great aunt and and great uncle have stage 4 cancer. I morbidly clicked on this game figuring…
Tag: digital poetry
>>Oh<< The Interactive Poem That Goes "Oh!"
Finding an example of electronic literature that I enjoyed was a little difficult because I am not a big fan of poetry. Because of this, I wanted to challenge myself to find some poem that I enjoyed for this project. Fortunately, I was able to find a work that was creative enough to peak my interest. >>oh<< is…
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…
Google Gives Birth to Poems
Our class’ definition of electronic literature as literary work that is born digital aptly describes Sampsa Nuotia and Raisa Omaheimo’s work “Google Poetics”. Their constantly growing collection of poems is an insightful, humorous, and sometimes saddening side effect of Google’s autocomplete feature. While Sampsa Nuotia and Raisa Omaheimo are the archivers of the work it is impossible for…
Save Me or Let me Go…The Will of E.R. Millhouse
“Living Will” by Mark C Marino is an interactive poem that names the reader executor of networking tycoon E. R. Millhouse’s will, which is the interactive poem. Millhouse is dying of a parasite infection he caught in his time working and living in the Congo. In making allotments, Millhouse divides his wealth and estate among four people: his son, Nigel;…
Treasures Beneath the Earth
Christine Wilks, writer of Inkubus, Fitting the Pattern, and Rememori, is a leading voice in the world of electronic fiction. Wilks works mostly in Flash and many of her works centralize around a cyberfeminism theme. Her work, Underbelly, fits this theme and can be described as a playable story that blends poetry and gaming for a very intense experience. This…
“Cannibal Dreams”: Science Made Poetry
“Cannibal Dreams: Anatomy Study No. 1” uses a block of text from a Biology textbook and hidden hypertext links to create a melancholy poetic piece. It was written by poet Lucy Cunningham and programmer Justin Talbott, and is currently being showcased on the Electronic Literature Organization’s homepage. Interestingly enough, the “about” section is attributed to Leonardo Flores, with whom we…
Slicing Through the Page: Poetry and Collaboration in “Cut to the Flesh”
“Cut to the Flesh,” a multi-media poem by Jody Zellen and Deena Larsen, is a work that embodies the creative and collaborative merits of digitally produced literature. The words in this piece belong to Zellen, but the source format was a “page space” created by Larsen. “Page space” in electronic literature refers to platforms created by an outside source for…
Shall I tell you about the Stars?
Sharif Ezzat’s collection of anecdotal poems titled “Like Stars in a Clear Night Sky” has already been presented twice on this blog, but I believe it deserves an even closer look than those presented earlier. “Like Stars in a Clear Night Sky” was created almost a decade ago in 2006, and is often praised for its simplistic beauty. It’s a…
Mapping the Pits of Fandom
It was day one of my Electronic Literature course. I sat at a table with three complete strangers, and scrolling on our shared monitor screen was Nick Montfort’s landscape poetry generator “Takaro Gorge”. It was morning, for me 9:30 AM is early morning. Sitting there, I was sluggish, and on top of that I had no idea what to learn or expect from Electronic Literature, let alone what…