“Birds Singing Other Birds’ Songs” is a unique artistic endeavor based on language and sound, using animated type used as the primary visually element. After a number of encounters with this playful piece, I do not fully understand what I am supposed to take away from it, but as visual art I found it really [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Electronic Literature Collection’
3 November 2009
Chemical Landscapes Digital Tales
By Megan Finnerty & Salome Fornier-Hanlon
Review
“Chemical Landscapes Digital Tales” by Edward Falco, Mary Pinto and Will Stauffer-Norris, is a visual poetry piece that combines eight abstract chemical and light created photographs, each depicting different lands, with their own constructed texts whose content and formatting reflect the art upon which they are displayed. Each of the [...]
28 November 2008
Does Artwork Come With Instruction Manuals?
By Ady Tang
Artwork is an expression of creativity that can be interpreted in many ways by different audiences. However, the artist always envisions a particular way that the artwork should be comprehended. As a result, it can be said that the author gives us “instructions” on how to interact with the artwork, especially when dealing [...]
31 October 2008
“There’s Something Missing”
By Innessa Roosen
John Cayley’s multifaceted electronic-poem has two aims: the visual art of translation – and the literal. Set against a classic, minimalist, black and white background, Cayley’s poem is in tune with an original musical composition by Giles Perring. In a brilliant collection of thoughts on the closeness and distance between languages, [...]
2 October 2008
REVIEW: Star Wars, One Letter at a Time
By Jamie Lee Cue
Brian Kim Stefans is an American Poet who is well known for focusing his efforts on the art of digital poetry, having two works featured in the first volume of the Electronic Literature Collection. His pieces take advantage of the use of flash, focusing not on the words themselves, like typical poetry, [...]
