Shelley Jackson’s “my body – a Wunderkammer”
Like others who have already posted I have little experience with Electronic Literature, so I picked a work from the Electronic Literature Collection (Volume 1). The stark black and white woodcut icon...
View ArticleYoung-Hae Chang Heavy Industries & Punk Aesthetics
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI) is the duo of American Marc Voge and South Korean Young-hae Chang, operating in Seoul, South Korea. Most of their works can be considered kinetic poetry or...
View Article“Brainstrips”– A Multi-Genre “Knowledge Series”
Brainstrips, by Alan Bigelow, is a “3-part knowledge series” incorporating elements of comics, hypertext, and kinetic poetry (although in this work it would be more accurately described as kinetic...
View ArticleBlackwater
I used Twine to create my hypertext story “Blackwater.” The story is based on a non-fiction essay I wrote recently, with some new fiction parts added. I used the Jonah format to compliment the story’s...
View ArticleThe Story of Orville V. Wright
“The Human Mystery” by Alan Bigelow tells the fictional story of the socially anxious Harvard anthropology professor, Orville V. Wright. “The Human Mystery” does not fall neatly into any genre of...
View ArticleClearing the clouds, clouding the clear
For today’s class we all played Jason Nelson’s four part game series “Arctic Acre Oddities and Curious Lands.” In these games Nelson uses glitch aesthetic to overturn a lot of standard notions about...
View ArticleColor, Comics, Death, Player-Characters, Everybody Dies
For the final checkpoint on this blog, I decided to write about a form of E-lit that I hadn’t discussed at length before. I’ve written about hypertext, digital poetry, art games, and other net art...
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