Wadrip-Fruin. Screen (video), Talking Cure.
Utterback and Archituv. TextRain.
Suggested: Knuth. "The Concept of a Meta-Font", pp. 289 - 295 of Ch. 15 in Digital Typography [W]
Though short the first reading says a lot on Noah Wardrip-Fruin who is said to be an author and scholar of digital literature. He has become famous for "Gray Matters (together with Chris Spain, Kirstin Allio, and Michael Crumpton), a fiction embedded in images of a human body, and The Impermanence Agent (together with Adam Chapman, Brion Moss, and Duane Whitehurst)." He seems curious about the world and wants to travel to get the best experience he can get.
Talking cure seems like a beautifully realized installation piece. Through words a lot is said about human interactions. "It is about seeing, writing, and speaking — about word pictures, the gaze, and cure". It looks like a very powerful piece that encourages people to play around with the peech recognition, and a dynamically composed sound environment. "The reader enters a space with a projection surface at one end and a high-backed chair, facing it, at another." This makes me think of something that you'd do to investigate about someone. Like a murder. You are encouraged to speak your mind and say what comes through your head. "Others in the space observe the person in the chair through word pictures on the screen" as it makes them feel observed or even looked at from outsiders.
I absolutly loved the piece called Text Rain by Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv. It is an installation where "participants use the familiar instrument of their bodies, to do what seems magical—to lift and play with falling letters that do not really exist." I think this is brilliant as it encourages people to interact with letters as if they were actually part of our world. It is very organic looking while remaining what it really is.. technology. It is a great way of using text and in this case a poem to re-create it through people's movements. It pushes the boundaries that people often create for themselves. A boundary where people simply read and do not interact with what they read. In this particular installation it does the opposite.
Here's something that I thought was similar to this installation created in Hong Kong:
Talking cure seems like a beautifully realized installation piece. Through words a lot is said about human interactions. "It is about seeing, writing, and speaking — about word pictures, the gaze, and cure". It looks like a very powerful piece that encourages people to play around with the peech recognition, and a dynamically composed sound environment. "The reader enters a space with a projection surface at one end and a high-backed chair, facing it, at another." This makes me think of something that you'd do to investigate about someone. Like a murder. You are encouraged to speak your mind and say what comes through your head. "Others in the space observe the person in the chair through word pictures on the screen" as it makes them feel observed or even looked at from outsiders.
I absolutly loved the piece called Text Rain by Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv. It is an installation where "participants use the familiar instrument of their bodies, to do what seems magical—to lift and play with falling letters that do not really exist." I think this is brilliant as it encourages people to interact with letters as if they were actually part of our world. It is very organic looking while remaining what it really is.. technology. It is a great way of using text and in this case a poem to re-create it through people's movements. It pushes the boundaries that people often create for themselves. A boundary where people simply read and do not interact with what they read. In this particular installation it does the opposite.
Here's something that I thought was similar to this installation created in Hong Kong:
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