Review – Tao: The Tranquility of the Surreal

The Tranquility of the Surreal
by Sophia M.
“Tao” is a short cinematographic Flash poem, created by Alan Sondheim and Reiner Strasser, that combines film, poetry and limited interactivity with haunting, melodic music to create a surreal yet soothing meditative experience. By utilizing the strengths of the work’s three individual elements to create cohesion and mood, [...]

ELC Review 2- Urbanalities

Urbanalities is a non-interactive piece of electronic literature depicting the nature of urban life. Authors Babel and Escha take an antagonistic view which touches on major issues of urbanization including, discrimination, stresses of everyday living, life on the streets, loose morals, and consumerism. Each of these issues is poetically illustrated throughout eight separate scenes that [...]

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 [...]

E-lit, the Final Frontier.

Brendan Brooks
It’s hard, it’s confusing, it’s annoying at times, so why read electronic literature at all? We can all remember back to when we were first read to. Books like Where the Wild Things Are taught us not to fear monsters, Mr Pines Purple House taught us to accept differences and the adventures of Whinny [...]

[theHouse] Has A Life Of Its Own

By Julie Lam

Mary Flanagan’s [theHouse] is an interactive digital poetry piece that exposes the dissension between two people. The work begins with an orderly arrangement of white boxes. Gray cubes accompanied by lyrical couplets gradually emerge within this collection. The lines vary and repeat in designated areas, separating the now irrational clutter into fairly coherent [...]