Deviant: The Possession of Christian Shaw, is the electronic literature piece I have chosen from the ELC1 to review this week. Deviant is a visual narrative, a with story with no words or voices, simply an interactive animated story. It recreates the true story of an 11 year old girl in 1696 Scotland who was [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Flash’
23 October 2009
Finding Synergy in Electric Poetry: A Reader’s Journey
A Review of Tao, authored by Reiner Strasser and Alan Sondheim
Reiner Strasser and Alan Sondheim’s entry, Tao, is a self described “interactive cinematographic Flash piece”. Tao opens with two matching videos, one brown and one green, shown concurrently, which are referred to by the authors as mirrors on a vehicle. In both videos, a flag [...]
17 October 2008
In the White Darkness
About the Fragility of Memory
By Chris Wilcox
The short, interactive piece In the White Darkness: About the Fragility of Memory is a picture based, multimedia interface in which the user develops a similar experience to patients suffering from Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease. The work was done as a collaboration by Reiner Strasser and M.D. Coverley [...]
3 October 2008
A B C, Fantasy
By Innessa Roosen
In the Flash-animated work “The Dreamlife of Letters”, Brian Kim Stefans, author in the Electronic Literature Collection, recreates the structure of conventional poetry by bringing language to life on the screen. This particular work is an innovative response to a more traditional print text by poet and feminist literary theorist Rachel Blau [...]
