Electronic Literature in Europe

Titles: Speech-Sound Generated Visual Poems and Accidental Meaning

Please find two proposals of practical work

Speech-Sound Generated Visual Poems

This project is part of my on going research in the specific area of electronic
poetry and literature and wider field of digital media. l use a transdisciplinary
approach and stretch technological possibilities through processes of
experimentation, translation, conceptualisation and contextualisation of the
work in current discourses of new media, digital poetics and programmable
media.

code 01 notetaking

square 01 square 02

Screenshots of code 01, notetaking, square 01, square 02.
Technical collaborator: Alexander Szekely from the Faculty of Architecture and
Design, University of Sydney

The screenshots provided are the first four interactive, generative poems
produced in a series of experimental poetic texts using code (java script) to
generate visual compositions which fill the viewable space in time, with a
growing pattern triggered by sound and silence. In all the experiments, three
communication systems are coming together: image, writing and code.

It is my aim to stretch the possibilities of programming to produce generative
texts activated by sound and rooted in the tradition of concrete poetry, its
formal representation, production processes and progression with
technological advances. As a research project, the work will have a valuable
input in provoking discourses and bringing knowledge and understanding into
the different explored disciplines.

It is my intention to develop more of these texts between now and the seminar
in September but at the moment, I am putting forward these four pieces with
the intention of being able to bring new work to the seminar, within this line of
thought. I can either present them or show them in the form of an installation,
if the seminar group is thinking about showing work. The installation and
exhibition of the pieces would aim to engage the viewer in a process of
associations and experience of the work. I think the work will achieve its full
potential being exhibited but the presentation of the work will equally open up
discussion in most of the subjects underlined by the seminar and more
particularly in the connection of e-lit and other literary and artistic forms and
movements.

Exhibition requirements

This work allows for various ways of showing such as projections or on
screens.

notetaking, screen approximately 20 inch. placed on the wall + MAC with
sound capture-microphone

code 01 the same as above

square 01, square 02 can be the same as above and have them all four laid
out as a group. Or if the space allows, I would like to exhibit square 01 and
square 02 as an installation in a room projected on walls on 90 degrees to
each other.

Accidental Meaning

Technical collaborator: Lilian Roby from the Faculty of Architecture and Design,
University of Sydney

By breaking up the meanings of words, a textuality is created by random
juxtaposed words. Their accidental position produce new relationships and in
doing so an going process of meanings and connections.

Instructions: By clicking the mouse or by screen touch which is the way I
exhibited this work, an array of words will be displayed, another touch will
show the curve and colour that connect the words, which define that particular
word. By clicking on !activated words" they will take you to other connections
and so on.

Exhibition requirements
Touch screen

(See attached PDF for screenshots and illustrations)

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