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new trends in electronic literature I
OK. I'm going to attempt, over the next few weeks, to get a grip on some of the current trends in electronic literature, in part by reading my way through the index of work presented at the Electronic Literature State of the Art Symposium.
The first grouping that I can clearly identify encompasses short animations, generally designed in Flash, that use the written word as a central component, and have little or no interactive element (beyond possibly clicking "start" or performing some other basic navigational tasks, like scrolling). I'd call these "kinetic poems," except kinetic poems is too broad a designation: for instance, a kinetic poem can be interactive or non-interactive. Since the language-based content is the only thing that significantly distinguishes these from other short experimental web-based films, I'm going to call them language films.
Examples include: Miekal And's SEEDSIGNS for Philadelpho, or The Dreamlife of Letters by Brian Kim Stefans.
Forerunners: concrete poetry, language poetry, experimental film, Sesame Street animation segments.
More to come.
Labels: electronic_literature |
Tuesday, April 16, 2002
4:32 PM
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