Horoscopes are defined by the relative position of celestial bodies at the moment of birth; these celestial bodies allegedly affect the personality, character, temper, etc. of the individual, the process however that determines this is highly arbitrary. I do not intend to offend any astrology enthusiasts; however, I find horoscopes are like randomly determined predictive […]
My test was today and I think it went well. Maybe I’ll do this posting style study session again in the future, I think it helped in preparing me for writing about works of e-lit. Some of the questions of the test were also based on works that were new and interesting to me, like […]
This work was somewhat of an inspiration for when I was working on my twine game, “Hurricane Survival.” The work, “Kuryokhin: Second Life” is a simulator of the life, art, and political decisions of a Russian musician. Interactive Fiction is a fascinating genre, as an author you are creating a role within the story for […]
I’m finishing up my review on hypertext with “Uncle Roger” by Judy Malloy. I personally see hypertext as going beyond normal text to a more engaging and yet still technically simple reading experience. The story that Malloy creates in her work is especially demonstrating of a “fragmentary narrative.” The story takes the setting of a […]
Shelley Jackson’s “my body: a Wunderkammer” is an intimate look into the spaces and corners of the narrator’s mind. The hyperlink visual map, from which you choose where to start reading, is allowing you to pick from body parts, which the narrator later compares to cabinet drawers. The narrative is as complex as the human […]
J.R Carpenter has a unique style that I admire, her works are loaded with visual stimuli and every piece that I have experienced feels explorable and profound. Her “Taroko Gorge” remixes (“Gorge” & “Along the Briny Beach“) are some of my favorite versions of the form; they carry this visual artistry in the literary imagery […]
“Taroko Gorge” was a sort of gateway for me in my studies, in fact it was Nick Monfort’s style (like most of the Memory Slam reimplementations, Taroko Gorge was done with Python) that gave me a push to learn how to code with Python. The poem is generative and the way the words flow into […]
Milton Laufer’s “God” was published in Taper #1, it is a minimalist generation which talks about belief. First it generates two stanzas which describe “God” as a thing that measures an abstract concept. The speaker is stating their non-beliefs, the negativity they feel surrounding the abstract concepts that “God” measures. And the stanza that has […]
Memory Slam is a collection of programs made between the 1950’s and the 1980’s. Each of these works is generative, and no user interaction is required. Generative works usually run with (depending on the programming language) lists, dictionaries, or collections of words. The writer/creator sets the functions and parameters so that the program selects from […]
This semester I am taking a course on the topic of electronic literature, and in an effort to study for my first midterm I have decided to create a study series. The posts under the study series title will be short analysis of different works that the professor has assigned to the class. The class […]
