Chris Joseph

for remixworx, from reVamp to end reUser
+ comment 11396

flash source: revamped.fla (27KB)

for remixworx, from the flamed artois and his bale-thanes (ber-s’arc donning) of mac-may-hon
+ machine_language
+ toogle “machine language”
+ comment 1758

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http://www.reconstructingmayakovsky.com

If you have a few minutes, I recommend having a look at this wonderful piece of digital writing by Illya Szilak, with animation and graphic design by Pelin Kirca, that fictionally and factually explores one of the most important (and overlooked) writers of the last century.

“Set in the future, Reconstructing Mayakovsky revisits the past to make sense of our chaotic present. Inspired by Vladimir Mayakovsky, the Russian Futurist poet who killed himself in 1930 at the age of thirty-six, the novel imagines a world where uncertainty and tragedy have finally been eliminated through technology.” (Illya Szilak)

Illya uses a variety of medias and methods, including manifestos, texts, animations, podcasts, music, and data visualisations. The result is a engrossing multilayered digital sci-fi/fantasy/biographical ‘novel’, well worthy of the artist who inspired it.

for remixworx. flash source: dystemic.fla (188KB)

for remixworx, from xy+:=/\][()*
+ Angelica from Clair de Lune

flash source: mr.fla (1.6MB)

http://www.webyarns.com/loveis/LoveIs.html

“Love Is…” is an attempt at a definition, and as with all definitions that try to explain what love is, precision is not possible, and perhaps not even desirable. This piece moves toward a definition of love in three stages: first through a standard, accepted lexicon; then via a series of individual expressions of love; and finally as defined within randomly selected statements about love provided by readers. The work is created in Flash and, at the end of the piece, offers viewers the opportunity to write their own definitions of love into the site. These definitions are saved in a database so the next visitor can view them as they are randomly displayed. “Love Is…” takes approximately five minutes to view.

for remixworx, from the bakerloo line + London Tube Font by Jonathan Paterson

flash source: bakerloo.fla (128KB)

The Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University is now in its second year. The course, created by writers Sue Thomas and Kate Pullinger, already teaches Fiction and Creative Nonfiction and students commencing their studies in September 2008 will now have the choice of two more modules - E-Poetry and Writing for the Creative Industries. Carolyn Handler Miller, author of Digital Storytelling: A Creator’s Guide to Interactive Entertainment, will teach Writing for the Creative Industries, and Peter Howard, highly-respected poet in both print and the digital, will teach E-Poetry.

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for remix_runran, from playing with fire

flash source: ode_to_xl5.fla (135KB)

“What They Said…” at www.webyarns.com is a typically accomplished blend of electronic fiction/poetry by Alan Bigelow, a hypnotic blend of text, images and sound with a strong political dimension.

The scenes are accessed via a radio dial at the bottom of the screen. While the individual scenes can be viewed in a non-linear order, each scene must be viewed in its entirety in order to access the final scenes, which provides a neat solution to the classic narrative problem of non-linear texts. Within each scene a fast progression of text (a la Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries) is combined with very fast visuals in a way that is both unsettling and absorbing; indeed my only criticism of the piece is that these very fast flickering images probably warrant an epilepsy warning at the start (something like the beginning of Relativity Poem). That small point aside, this is another great piece of work from one my favourite e-writers.