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Sponsor |  Niccilope | Jan 28, 2006 11:38am | When I dropped Hapax a note the other day, she mentioned something I hadn't really been thinking about: leaning more towards poetry than fiction.
This was really interesting to me, because one of the very first sites I ever created (remember free web hosting on Xoom?) was a site that I called "Lyrical Alchemy" that featured some of my favourite poems.
While, I consider it embarassing now (animated GIFs of torches, and all the rest - but I like to fondly think it was "tastefully cheesy". It was 1998, after all! ;)) I was experimenting in hypertext as a method of presenting fiction. My page featuring The Raven was linked to wav files that played the "knocking on the door", etc.
So, I suppose my point is that hyperliterature doesn't have to necessarily link to text, just to content - visual, oral or written.
Has anyone done anything similar or have any links to share? |
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Sponsor | | Hapax | Jan 28, 2006 12:45pm | Hi Niccilope! As I'm buried in work for the next few weeks, I had intended elegantly lurking for at least that period, but since you've rattled my cage, I'll emerge briefly to point towards an experiment of this sort that I was involved in. It's called Offsets and was an attempt at realizing a new sort of 'poetic' form online, based very loosely on Japanese renga (linked verse).
The most recent of the three runs wasn't fully updated on the web, so the best place to start looking at it is via the first run. You can either just wade in and start reading the texts, or see how it was intended to work by clicking the "Lost in the wood?" link on the left.
I'd be very interested in any responses . . .
(And, incidentally, despite my current avatar, I'm a "he" rather than a "she".) |
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Sponsor | | Niccilope | Feb 3, 2006 12:22pm | Excellent link, Hapax. Offsets looks like an extremely interesting project to be involved in. I've only spent about a half-hour on the site and I am very interested in what I've seen and will definitely go back to study the poem in more depth when I have a chance.
One thing that really intrigued me was that based on your brief description, and my own assumptions, I was very surprised by how different the children/responses tended to be the parent nodes. I was expecting more of a consistent flow through the branches.
How do you feel that you were influenced by writing something that you lose control of so quickly? I'm also interested to know what your thoughts/feelings about participating were. Did you become frustrated by any of the responses?
I'm very interested in renga, I was not previously aware of this communal form of poetry writing. For anyone who else who is new to the topic, here are a few links I found interesting:
* Jane Reichhold's Aha! Poetry site. Features a section on renga and also includes an active forum (you have to register to see the sections).
* A UK-based renga group with info on renga, the group, and examples of their work.
Another interesting page that I found was for a ad-hoc-network-based application called Interwall, which creates a collaborative environment for renga (alas, I can't read Japanese).
(By the way, thank you for the clarification on your gender. My apologies! :)) |
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Sponsor | | Hapax | Feb 4, 2006 5:59pm | Hi Nicci! Glad you had a chance to check out offsets.
I'm on my way to bed after a hard day's working and carousing, so this is just a placemarker . . .
The loss of control over the response was precisely one of the points of Offsets. One way (though only one) to look at the project is as a writing class without a teacher. The responses to what you contribute can suggest to you a variety of ways in which your work can be responded to. None is necessarily "right" but you begin to learn how people read what you're doing, at deeper levels, or at least in other ways, than you foresaw.
Also, it's great fun . . . |
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|  Ambrosia | Feb 9, 2006 9:18pm | I've also seen a site made by an English Professor in Calgary I believe, (though I can't find the link right now) where she made some interactive poetry. It started off with a poem, some words within the poem can be clicked which brings you to a new poem, links by that common word.
It would also be very interesting to create wiki-poetry, where it can be created anonymously by multiple and unlimited authors. |
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