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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Electronic Literature: Individual Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: Readers of print conventionally ignore the page surface so as to concentrate on interpreting what is printed there; in "open.ended," by contrast, surfaces are integral. Readers interact with lines of poetry that appearon two translucent shapes - one nested within the other. Because words on the inner shape are visible through the outer one, the printed lines can be read together or separately. The number of possible surface/text combinations is limited, but by merging shapes a surprising range of new stanzas can result. The reader can also control her angle of view so that more than one surface is visible, though all the words may not be legible. As the surfaces obscure the words, the materiality of the digital shapes overcomes linguistic signification. This phenomenon of surface overcoming text also occurs when the shapes overlap and obscure portions of the text. "open.ended" amounts to a poem without beginning or end since one does not move through the text in any predetermined order, yet the poetic object has boundaries delimited by the eight rotating surfaces. The reader's interaction with the shifting text is augmented--and usefully constrained--by an audio track of the author reading so that we, reading to ourselves, are reminded of lines from the poem we have already encountered, or we are given a preview of text to come. Despite the literal instability of the moving text, the audio track is the same each time, which lends consistency to repeated readings. Entry drafted by: Ben Underwood
Captured 15 times between Apr 27, 2009 and Aug 22, 2012
Subject: poetry, flash, audio, interactive, 3D, spatialization
Creator: Aya Karpinska, Daniel C. Howe
Collector: ELO
Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Electronic Literature: Individual Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: Mary Flanagan's "[theHouse]" is a digital poem-environment that consists of strings of transparent, three-dimensional, occasionally intersecting, shifting boxes that are accompanied by paired lines, which in turn are re-combined as the piece progresses; we may watch them as they move across the screen, grow larger or smaller or rotate so that we read them in reverse—as if we could walk to the back of our language. Or, should we want to determine the shape and direction of the text/boxes, we can try to interact with the text/boxes through the mouse. Since Flanagan writes that "[a]s in much of electronic literature, the experience of the work as an intimate, interactive, screen-based piece is essential to understanding and appreciating it," the experience of interacting with this text-environment is primarily one of struggle or difficulty since there is no way to gain control over the text--no way to determine the direction in which the piece shifts. Pulling right on the mouse does not guarantee that the text will also shift right or rotate clockwise; moving the mouse up does not necessarily allow us to venture deep inside the boxes or the text—we may have just flipped the boxes/text or moved to a bird's eye view of this strange computer-text-organism. Thus, despite my interactions with the text, despite the fact that I can "read" most of the lines, in its difficulty "[theHouse]" is at least in part about the mediating effects of an interface that, despite Flanagan's claim above, offers intimacy while also declining it. Entry drafted by: Lori Emerson
Captured 12 times between Apr 27, 2009 and Nov 22, 2010
Subject: Animation/Kinetic, individual work, 3D, interactive poetry, interactive art
Creator: Mary Flanagan
Collector: Electronic Literature Organization
Collection: Electronic Literature: Individual Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: "Zaira, City of Memories", by Gökçen Ergüven, is a Flash-based hypertext loosely inspired by Italo Calvino’s "Invisible Cities". The piece combines interactive visual imagery derived from photographs of the urban settings to which the piece refers with brief descriptive passages, aphoristic statements, and poetic musings. The overall structure is organized around a map-like navigation tool which allows readers to follow the text along forking paths, reminiscent of the subway interface of Geoff Ryman’s "253". Unlike Ryman’s hypertext novel, Ergüven’s work follows a single narrative perspective, but does so across the space of three different cities and temporal frames: Ankara (the capital of Turkey, where, according to the author’s abstract, Ergüven was born), Istanbul (where the author lives), and London (where the author would like to live). Zaira is the imaginary city where the past of memory, the present of being, and the desire for the future coexist. Entry drafted by: Davin Heckman
Captured 5 times between May 28, 2010 and May 28, 2012
Videos: 6 Videos Captured
Subject: antecedent, calvino, hyperbook, hypertext novel, invisible cities
Creator: Gökçen Ergüven
Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Electronic Literature: Collections of Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: Flash poems with sound track and cinematic elements, presented as simple black text on white background flashing by in a rhythm syncopated to music, typically jazz. Entry drafted by: Patricia Tomaszek
Captured 19 times between May 02, 2008 and Nov 10, 2012
Subject: flash, sound art, time-based, critical/philosophical, electronic music, Collaboration, net art, Multilingual or Non-English, poetry, parody/satire
Publisher: YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
Language: English, Korean, German, Chinese, Spanish, Portugu
Collector: ELO
Collection: Electronic Literature: Context
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: Writing Technologies was launched in 2007 and is devoted to the research on the relationship between technology and textuality. The peer-reviewed journal publishes twice a year: one themed and one open issue. It offers a forum for paper submissions that examine the textual opportunities and transformations of the literary that technology enables. Emerging digital textualities will be discussed as well as new technologies of textual reproduction that restructure literary history, which transform interpretation and even transfigure the literary object itself. Also, essays on literary texts that engage thematically with technology are welcomed. ISSN: 1754-9035. Entry drafted by: Patricia Tomaszek
Captured 8 times between May 08, 2009 and Nov 08, 2012
Creator: Daniel Cordle, Philip Leonard
Collection: Electronic Literature: Collections of Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: A collection of electronic literature from 1998 to 2004 which contains, as well, guides, syllabi, downloadable software, and commentary on electronic literature. Entry drafted by: Patricia Tomaszek
Captured 21 times between Nov 04, 2007 and Nov 10, 2012
Videos: 1 Videos Captured
Subject: hypertext, electronic literature, fiction, commentary, syllabi, collection, digital poetics, poetry
Creator: Robert Kendall
Collector: ELO
Collection: United Church of Canada sites
Organization: United Church of Canada Archives
Description: The home of open-minded discussion and exploration of spiritual topics, moral issues and life's big questions, brought to you by the people of The United Church of Canada
Captured 2 times between Sep 28, 2012 and Dec 28, 2012
Videos: 306 Videos Captured
Collection: Electronic Literature: Individual Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: John Cayley’s “windsound” is an algorithmic work presented as a 23-minute recording of a machine-generated reading of scrambled texts. The cinematic work presents a quicktime-video of white letters on a black screen, a text written by Cayley with a translation of the chinese poem “Cadence: Like a Dream” by Qin Guan (1049-1100). As a sensory letter-by-letter performance, the work sequentially replaces letters on the screen, so that what starts as illegible text becomes readable as a narrative, and then again loses meaning in a jumble of letters. Cayley calls this technique “transliteral morphing: textual morphing based on letter replacements through a sequence of nodal texts.” Sequences of text appear within up to 15 lines on the same screen, thus presenting and automatically replacing a longer text on a digitally simulated single page-a concept Judd Morrissey also applied in "The Jew´s Daughter". Unlike Morrissey’s piece, Cayley’s doesn´t allow the user to interact with the work that appears as a text-movie with ambient sound, murmurs of voices, windsound and synthetic female and male voices reading the non-readable to the viewer. With the letters, narrative perspectives also morph and switch fluidly between the lyrical-I, Christopher, Tanaka or Xiao Zhang, who appear in the story. Thus, the sentence: "‘We know,’" Tanaka had said in English/"‘Tomorrow if we meet/I will have to kill you myself/’" is, in the algorithmic process of the work, later spelled out by the I-narrator. As stated at the very end of the work, John Cayley created “windsound” in memory to Christopher Bledowski. What remains after a blackened screen and a start-over of morphing letters before they vanish conclusively, is windsound. At a certain point in the movie the text says "you have to be/to stay/silent/to hear it" and it seems like the reader has to be silent, too, listening to what he cannot understand, patiently waiting for the moment of legibility. Entry drafted by: Patricia Tomaszek
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Subject: poetry, appropriated texts, ambient, non-interactive, synthetic voices, algorithmic, soundscape, transliteral morphing
Creator: John Cayley
Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Videos: 413 Videos Captured
Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Videos: 3 Videos Captured
Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Videos: 1 Videos Captured
Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Electronic Literature: Individual Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: A Shockwave work by Stephanie Strickland and Cynthia Lawson. This work was made as the third component of an intermedia poem whose two other parts were bound together, upside down to each other, in a volume written by Strickland and published by Penguin, V: WaveSon.nets/Losing L'una, 1992. At the center of the book are pointers to the url. The digital poem was published in the Iowa Review Web, 2002, with critical material by Jaishree Odin, and with an essay by the authors in New River, 2003.
Captured 21 times between Aug 06, 2007 and Aug 22, 2012
Subject: visual poetry, interactive, collaborative, textual instrument, women authors, shockwave, poetry, kinetic text
Collection: Electronic Literature: Individual Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: "Voyage into the Unknown" by Roderick Coover is an historical non-fiction hypertext about the first geographic expedition down the Colorado River in 1869. The three-month journey was led by John Wesley Powell who, with his eight fellow boatmen, departed from Green River City in northern Utah towards the Gulf of California. Coover investigates in the question of how we come to know and imagine an "unknown territory" and provides the answer with the navigational technique he applies in his work: an interactive panoramic environment with a digitally re-worked map of the journey, in which the user navigates though the desert landscape using a seamless, horizontally scrolling interface. The reader, who takes the perspective of crew member George Bradley, faces an unknown literary space he can choose to explore in several different ways. He can either use red arrows to move back and forth within the landscape or use the "key" numbered from one to twenty that recalls a chapter-like navigation. In order to "read the unknown territory", the user is forced to explore the map that is marked with points of interest. These markers (abbreviations that are explained in an introductory agenda at the beginning of the piece) work like hyperlinks that, once activated, name places passed, people the group met or events they experienced. A diary-like narrative unfolds in short excerpts of texts that reveal what happend when the crew was declared dead and how they managed to survive in "the darkest hour" when subsistences decreased each day. The narrative is contested with researched facts that interwine with actual diary accounts and works by John Wesley Powell, along with additional publications by other crew members (George Bradley, John Sumner, and Frederick Dellenbaugh). Coover also integrates primary visual works by E.O. Beaman, John Hillers, and Thomas Moran with new and original writing, artwork, and interactive devices. Entry drafted by: Patricia Tomaszek
Captured 4 times between Jul 27, 2009 and May 28, 2010
Subject: hypertext, Flash, nonfiction, historical
Creator: Roderick Coover
Collector: ELO
Collection: United Church Initiatives
Organization: United Church of Canada Archives
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Creator: The United Church of Canada
Language: English
Collection: Electronic Literature: Individual Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: Uncle Roger by Judy Malloy first appeared from 1986-1987, placing it among the first generation of hypertexts produced on disks - contemporaneous with the earliest versions of Michael Joyce’s "afternoon: a story." The current (2003) revised web-version attempts to keep the original hypertext layout, design, and interaction. The work consists of a series of text nodes, connected via hyperlinks on words and icons. The node texts form a longer narrative in three parts: “A Party in Woodside,” “The Blue Notebook,” “Terminals.” The three sections, or "files" as the author calls them, intertwine personal recollections with descriptions of a pre-Internet, pre-PC age in California. The narrator, Jenny, serves as a focal point. The title figure “Uncle Roger” is Jenny’s uncle, an eccentric semiconductor market analyst, and the Silicon Valley culture and chip industry form the narrative backdrop. The stories bring together pieces of conversation at a California party with Jenny’s memories. In classic hyperfiction fashion, the reader chooses a path through the nodes by clicking on linked words or images. For instance, the section called “Terminals” features a keyboard-like set of icons that function as a navigational tool for accessing the separate story sections. Entry drafted by: Maria Engberg
Captured 8 times between Nov 22, 2010 and Aug 22, 2012
Creator: Judy Malloy
Collection: Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Related and Ecumenical Organizations
Organization: Presbyterian Historical Society
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Subject: Ukirk
Creator: Ukirk
Collector: Presbyterian Historical Society
Rights: Rights assessment is your responsibility.
Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: SCI Social Media
Organization: Seamen's Church Institute
Captured 2 times between May 21, 2012 and Dec 03, 2012
Collection: Electronic Literature: Collections of Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: Turbulence, a project of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. has commissioned 140 networked art works and hosted more than 20 distributed, real-time, multilocation performance events since 1996. An archive of these projects, including many with a strong literary focus, is maintained on the site. Entry drafted by: Patricia Tomaszek
Captured 34 times between Sep 11, 2007 and Nov 10, 2012
Videos: 5925 Videos Captured
Subject: institutions, organization, net art, interviews, network forms
Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Videos: 123 Videos Captured
Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Trinity Wall Street Church Website
Organization: Trinity Church Wall Street
Description: Easter Season Bulletins 2013
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Collection: Electronic Literature: Individual Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: These Waves of Girls is a hypermedia novella exploring memory, girlhoods, cruelty, childhood play, and lesbian sexuality. The piece is composed as a series of small stories, artifacts, interconnections, and meditations from the point of view of a girl (or girls) at various ages from four to twenty. Fisher's work is distinct for its hypermedia features: each text passage is illustrated by new images and therefore presents a new interface for each chunk of text, some passages are read by the author. On the level of content, the story's characters try to find and come to terms with their sexuality. Figuratively, this construction of self is mirrored in the hypertextual structure Fisher makes use of: The reader witnesses the characters' identity construction by following one link after the other, coming closer to what identity means to the stories' characters': "We've all been fifteen. I look very much the same, only at fifteen I'm a little larger, a little stronger. I'll believe anything. I tell people I believe nothing." Entry drafted by: Patricia Tomaszek
Captured 21 times between Nov 04, 2007 and Aug 22, 2012
Subject: hypertext, flash, women authors, audio, fiction, dhtml, html, sexuality, memoir
Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Electronic Literature: Individual Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: The Unknown is a collaborative hypertext novel written on the World Wide Web during the turn of the millennium. It is a text about a book tour that takes on the excesses of a rock tour. The work is notorious for breaking the "comedy barrier" in electronic literature, replacing the pretentious modernism and self-consciousness of previous hypertext works with a pretentious postmodernism and self-absorption that is more satirical in nature. The Unknown includes several sections or "lines" of content including a sickeningly decadent hypertext novel, metafictional bullshit, documentary material, correspondence, art projects, documentation of live readings, a press kit, and more. Entry drafted by: Patricia Tomaszek
Captured 28 times between Aug 06, 2007 and Aug 22, 2012
Subject: hypertext, network novel, encyclopedic, metafiction, comedy, collaborative, postmodern, fiction, parody/satire, html/dhtml, network forms
Creator: William Gillespie, Frank Marquardt, Scott Rettberg, Dirk Stratton
Collector: ELO
Collection: United Church of Canada sites
Organization: United Church of Canada Archives
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Videos: 350 Videos Captured
Collection: United Church of Canada sites
Organization: United Church of Canada Archives
Description: The official website for The United Church of Canada
Captured 7 times between Jul 09, 2012 and Jan 09, 2013
Videos: 137 Videos Captured
Creator: The United Church of Canada
Publisher: The United Church of Canada
Rights: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND
Collection: Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) National Agencies
Organization: Presbyterian Historical Society
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Subject: The Thoughtful Christian
Creator: The Thoughtful Christian
Collector: Presbyterian Historical Society
Relation: Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Rights: Rights assessment is your responsibility.
Collection: Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) National Agencies
Organization: Presbyterian Historical Society
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Videos: 4 Videos Captured
Subject: The Thoughtful Christian
Creator: The Thoughtful Christian
Collector: Presbyterian Historical Society
Relation: Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Rights: Rights assessment is your responsibility.
Collection: RAC
Organization: Rockefeller Archive Center
Description: Internet homepage for the Rockefeller Archive Center
Captured 6 times between Aug 17, 2012 and Dec 17, 2012
Subject: Archives, Rockefeller family
Group: Rock Arch Home
Creator: The Rockefeller Archive Center
Language: eng
Format: Text/HTML, Photographs
Date: 2013-01-08
Identifier: http://www.rockarch.org
Collector: Rockefeller Archive Center
Rights: Copyright © The Rockefeller Archive Center. All rights reserved.
Collection: Electronic Literature: Individual Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: Prose poem published in The Iowa Review Web (TIR-W), Volume 9, Number 2: "Instruments and Playable Texts" (2008). “The Purpling” is comprised of approximately ten basic web pages of eight to ten lines each. By clicking on hyperlinks connected to segments of varying lengths, the reader enters what guest editor Stuart Moulthrop calls a "maze of recirculating expression.” While the words on the screen remain static, the reader's experience of "meaning" varies depending on the order of visited links. These visited links, in most browsers, also appear in purple, which becomes a visual representation of not only the work's title, but also the mingling of the reader with the text. Consequently, in both form and content, the work calls attention to nature of reading and questions the authority of a text. Entry drafted by: Crystal Alberts
Captured 15 times between Apr 27, 2009 and Aug 22, 2012
Subject: hypertext, poetry, procedural, constraint-based
Creator: Nick Monfort
Collector: Electronic Literature Organization
Collection: Electronic Literature: Collections of Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: As part of the online journal Riding the Meridian, The Progressive Dinner Party invites the reader to explore thirty-nine online works by women as part of a culinary reading journey through eight different countries and four continents: Cocktails from Australia, Hors d’oeuvres from Europe, Salad from Canada, Fish from the Coasts, Entrée from the US Heartland, Dessert from the Tropics and Brandy and Coffee from New York. The website offers these tempting culinary trajectories for a transnational hypertextual and hypermedial reading experience (playing on the double-meaning of ‘menu’), as well as takes the reader through a hypertextual world map and to a virtual table, which all become an indexical transit zone for a computer-based reading journey from one electronic region of the world to another. A commentary on the collection is provided by N. Katherine Hayles and Talan Memmott. Entry drafted by: Martina Pfeiler
Captured 12 times between Oct 09, 2009 and Aug 10, 2012
Videos: 51 Videos Captured
Publisher: Carolyn Guertin and Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink
Collector: ELO
Collection: Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Synods
Organization: Presbyterian Historical Society
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Subject: Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Synod of Living Waters
Creator: Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Synod of Living Waters
Collector: Presbyterian Historical Society
Relation: Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Synod of Living Waters
Rights: Rights assessment is your responsibility.
Collection: Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) National Agencies
Organization: Presbyterian Historical Society
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Videos: 2 Videos Captured
Subject: The Presbyterian Leader
Creator: The Presbyterian Leader
Collector: Presbyterian Historical Society
Relation: Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Rights: Rights assessment is your responsibility.
Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: International Whistleblower Archive
Organization: International Whistleblower Archive
Captured 19 times between Jul 16, 2011 and Jan 16, 2013
Type: Blog
Collection: Electronic Literature: Individual Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: This Flash-based creation encompasses a series of 3 prose poems that gradually dissolve (in animated sequences) to reveal poems "hidden" within them. Each of three initial block texts can be read sequentially; however, the essence of this piece is the way letters fly from those initial texts to reveal the hidden poems. Each of these three initial texts have two poems "embedded" in them. At first, the remaining letters remain in place, like the buildings that survived the earthquake. On subsequent pages, these characters close ranks to form the words of the embedded poems. Additionally, each surviving letter casts off versions of itself which fall down the surface of the poem, colliding with other cast-off versions and forming alternate unused words which stack up in a heap below the poem. Thematically, the pieces bring together the "famous occult associations of the European mandrake" with the American one (mayapple). The poems play with the rhizomatic nature of roots and rhizomes of literary allusions. Readers cannot uproot these mandrakes without being caught in the underground tangle of sex, death, and renewal. Entry drafted by: Mark C. Marino
Captured 13 times between Oct 27, 2009 and Aug 22, 2012
Creator: Oni Buchnan
Collector: ELO
Collection: Electronic Literature: Individual Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: Judd Morrissey, Goat Island, and 145+ additional contributors are contributing to the work-in-progress The Last Performance (dot org). The project’s developers describe it as “a constraint-based collaborative writing, archiving and text-visualization project responding to the theme of lastness in relation to architectural forms, acts of building, a final performance, and the interruption (that becomes the promise) of community.” The project is a kind of hopeful monster, a mutated form of literature that combines elements of dance and performance, information and physical architecture, and Oulipian constraint-driven approaches to writing. The visual presentation of the project is based on the structure and details of the Dzamija, a mosque built on top of an old church in Zagreb, Croatia. Elements of the structure were derived from a dance performance by Goat Island, a Chicago-based performance collective. The organizational principles of the text are largely algorithmic. The individual texts themselves are written in response to a series of odd, seemingly arbitrary constraints such as “Construct a last performance in the form of a heavy foot that weighs 2 tons and remains in good condition.” The texts that form the material basis of the project are contributed both by the authors who have been working most closely on the project for two years and by readers who stumble across it on the Web and decide to contribute a text by responding to a constraint or to one of the other texts.(...) Read the entire elit work article drafted by Scott Rettberg at: http://directory.eliterature.org/node/606
Captured 8 times between Nov 22, 2010 and Aug 22, 2012
Subject: hypertext, poetry, collaborative, narrative, database, visualization
Creator: Judd Morrissey
Collection: Electronic Literature: Individual Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: Upon launching Erik Loyer's The Lair of the Marrow Monkey (1998), a web-based work of digital fiction powered by Shockwave software animation, readers not only see the opening navigation screen, but must feel their way around it. Nine circles orbit, carrousel-like, around a tower constructed with two triangles, one inverted and resting on top of the other. The sound of an eerie synthesized pulsing accompanies each rotation, which speeds up the farther away the reader moves the mouse. A tiny number appears at the foot of each, counting - up or down depending on which way the shapes orbit - from one to nine. (...) Read the entire elit work article Dave Ciccoricco at http://directory.eliterature.org/node/618
Captured 8 times between Nov 22, 2010 and Aug 22, 2012
Subject: poetry, audio, music, narrative, cognition, consciousness, digital fiction, interactive motion graphics, interior monologue, jazz, letters, memory, mind, poem, posthuman, spoken word
Creator: Erik Loyer
Collection: Electronic Literature: Individual Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: "The Jew's Daughter" is an interactive, non-linear, multivalent narrative. A hypertext, but one that transforms the text (rather than just linking from one stable text to another). As soon as the reader moves the mouse over highlighted keywords (links), segments of a page replace one another fluidly. While always remaining syntactically and semantically intact, passages are replaced by a new text within a static rectangular text-space. The work's content corresponds to the unstable form: Characters, for example, are not fixed identities; they can be, by turns, contemporary and historical. The algorithmic text generation calls on readers to explore a text that changes with the addition or deletion of passages at random throughout the narrative. By placing authors and readers in direct relation to machine-generated text, this piece has helped ground debates on electronic literature. Entry drafted by: Patricia Tomaszek
Captured 17 times between Oct 29, 2008 and Aug 22, 2012
Subject: hypertext, collaboration, interactive, generative text, html/dhtml
Collection: Electronic Literature: Collections of Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: The Iowa Review Web’s issue on “Instruments and Playable Text” (published in July 2008, guest edited by Stuart Moulthroup) features seven poetic and narrative works by six authors concerned with writing at the level of interface and code. The featured works (by Judy Malloy, John Cayley, Nick Montfort, Shawn Rider, Elizabeth Knipe, and the editor himself) all explore operations of permutation, chance, and remixing prompted by the reader’s actions. These programmed digital works invite readers to engage in the (literary) play indeed, reading and play in these texts are inseparable. Readerly actions include clicking on images and texts in Malloy’s Concerto for Narrative Data to invoke voices and texts to appear in various formations and juxtapositions. In Nick Montfort’s The Purpling, color-coding and clickable text chunks cause the poem to gradually change into different texts. John Cayley’s riverIsland employs navigation via images, via clickable icons, or by dragging QuickTime images, to access 32 poems reflecting on nature, translation, and language. Both Elizabeth Knipe’s activeReader and Shawn Rider’s two works, So Random and PiTP, invite the reader to enter texts of their own. Finally, Moulthrop’s polyphonic Under Language mixes written text with spoken words and sounds as the reader clicks on the interface’s icons and texts. In this work, as in Cayley's riverIsland, sounds and spoken words also engage the reader as a listener. Different kinds of play, interaction, and participation are juxtaposed with the more standard ways of intellectually engaging with a literary work. Along with the works, The Iowa Review Web issue includes an editor’s introduction and statements by many of the featured artists/authors. Entry drafted by: Maria Engberg
Captured 16 times between Dec 06, 2008 and Aug 10, 2012
Videos: 20 Videos Captured
Subject: Quick Time, poetry, combinatorial, textual instrument, fiction, Critical/philosophical, women authors, html/dhtml, procedural, java, constraint-based, action script
Publisher: Stuart Moulthrop, Jon Winet, Mark NeuCollins
Collector: ELO
Collection: Electronic Literature: Collections of Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: The journal Iowa Review Web started to publish electronic writing in 1999. It includes - along with electronic literature - other varieties of experimental writing and art, author interviews, critical articles, and essays. ISSN number: 1541-972X. Entry drafted by: Patricia Tomaszek
Captured 35 times between Aug 12, 2007 and Nov 10, 2012
Subject: theory, hypertext, criticism, essays, fiction, literary journal, interviews, reviews, poetry, art
Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Internet Archive Press
Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Organization: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Electronic Literature: Individual Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: Zoe Beloff’s "Influencing Machine of Miss Natalija A." is flash adaptation of a multimedia installation of the same name created by Beloff in 2001. This web-enabled version combines video, text, audio, and animation to tell the story of Natalija A., a psychiatric patient who was unable to communicate except through writing. Natalija believed that she was being controlled remotely by an “influencing machine,” a mechanical model of her body created by a doctor in Berlin which could be manipulated to control her telepathically. Based on an actual 1919 account of Viennese psychoanalyst Victor Trausk, Beloff’s work contains passages from Trausk’s notebooks, simulated effects of the “diabolical machine,” surrealist footage of medical procedures, and video clips of the actual broadcast technologies that emerged during the early twentieth century to influence populations worldwide. Beloff’s piece is notable for its interface, which presents itself as a “book,” with weathered, yellow pages complete with faint traces of text bleeding through from their opposite sides. Embedded black and white videos enhance the uncanny feel of the piece, giving the “book’s” diagrams a haunting, hallucinatory mood. The audio of the piece combines soundtracks with the video clips with white noise and whispered recitations, suggesting that the mute Natalija is speaking through the book through supernatural means. The result is an atmosphere that seems faded and esoteric, preserving the enigmatic character of Natalija’s unresolved affliction, her allegation that Trausk himself was under the machine’s evil influence, and his suicide the following year. Taken as a whole, the piece might best be understood as a contemporary manifestation of the literary gothic, where facts and speculations anxiously intersect, and conspiratorial notions flourish. Entry drafted by: Davin Heckman
Captured on May 28, 2010
Subject: video, creative non-fiction, gothic, installation
Creator: Zoe Beloff
Collection: Internet Archive Press
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Collection: Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Related and Ecumenical Organizations
Organization: Presbyterian Historical Society
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Subject: The Fellowship of Presbyterians
Creator: The Fellowship of Presbyterians
Collector: Presbyterian Historical Society
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Collection: Electronic Literature: Collections of Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: 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. Published by the Electronic Literature Organization. The publication is available both online at the ELO site and as a packaged, cross-platform CD-ROM. The collection includes author, title, and keyword indexes. Entry drafted by: Patricia Tomaszek
Captured 9 times between Jul 13, 2007 and Apr 09, 2009
Subject: Journal, ELO, Collection of Work
Creator: The Electronic Literature Organization
Publisher: N. Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg, Stephanie Strickland
Language: English, French
Collector: ELO
Collection: Electronic Literature: Individual Works
Organization: Electronic Literature Organization
Description: A poet's playful meditation on the nature and function of letterforms in kinetic two-dimensional space. Dreamlife is a Flash animation, based on a text by the feminist literary theorist Rachel Blau DuPlessis, which explores the ground between classic concrete poetry, avant-garde, feminist practice, and "ambient" poetics. Stefans responded DuPlessis by using words of her text: "all I did was alphabetize the words in it and then construct shorter poems from them." The short film runs about 11 minutes and shows letters that perform their "dreams" on the screen. Entry drafted by: Patricia Tomaszek
Captured 20 times between Feb 02, 2008 and Aug 22, 2012
Subject: flash, Animation/Kinetic, visual poetry, appropriated texts, ambient, non-interactive
Creator: Brian Kim Stefans
Language: Engish
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