“What We Will” (2004) is an interesting piece of electronic literature for a number of reasons. Firstly, it’s hard to figure out, which makes it a fun challenge. Secondly, think of the movie “Inception”. You may have to play it a few times before you actually figure it out, and even then it still blows your mind. Not only is this…
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Black Out
For this blog, I decided to read a poem by Johannes Auer. What is special about this poem is that the reader is are creating it. The Artist gives you a gun and in the gun, there is a word from the poem. Once you click on that poem, you are taking out that word from the poem which leaves…
Blog Article #2- what the heck is a sound poem
By CHRIS MARKHAM For my second blog post, I stumbled upon a collection of sound poems by Joerg Piringer. The weird thing about these to me, was the fact that none of them had any words, just letters that would act accordingly to the theme of the poem and make sounds as it interacts with its surroundings. The first in…
Lemons, Sugar, and Water
Ingrid Ankerson along with Megan Sapnar Ankerson co-founded the digital arts and poetry journal Poems that Go. “Today is Lemonade” by Ingrid Ankerson is a piece of digital poetry from 2000. This digital poem is a silent video that has simple animation that goes along with the lines of the poem. “Today is Lemonade” overall could be seen as a…
A Point and Click Poem
I have never been very good at video games, much to the chagrin of my nerdy father, his best friend and frequent house-guest Mark Jacobs of Mythic Entertainment, and now my equally nerdy boyfriend. I don’t have very good dexterity and frequently run into walls when attempting to use a controller or using the WASD keys on console game. I…
haikU by Nanette Wylde
Nanette Wylde’s poem haikU, is an electronic poem that allows its reader to contribute to the making of the poem. On the screen appears a haiku. In the upper left hand corner are dots in the sequence of the number of syllables on each of the three lines in a haiku. Once you have experience the haiku you have the…
Nothing You Have Done Deserves Such Praise
Last November, Jason Nelson published a flash game poem he describes as something that “satisfies your compliment addiction”. “Nothing You Have Done Deserves Such Praise” excellently captures the essence of all of those distracting and arbitrary Xbox achievements that seem to be lauding us for sitting in front of a TV and accomplishing nothing. Nelson has found an engaging…
My attempt to be ‘creative’ ended up looking like something for a third grader..but third graders need E-lit too right??
So basically I could say my creative project came awful close to a complete failure. Of course I don’t know if Dr.Whalen agrees and if it was reflected in my grade, and of course I hope not, but it did not turn out anything like what I had imagined. Well it kinda turned out like I imagined but once I…
“In the Garden of Recounting” by Robert Kendall
Despite the fact that I have enjoyed almost all of the forms of electronic literature that we have studied in this class, I find myself most drawn to hypertext and interactive poetry. As such, the other day I decided to search the internet for sites that host hypertext poetry, when I came across an archive of work by the writer…