interactive poetry

JanusNode is a user-configurable dynamic textual projective surface. It can create original texts using a rule-based system or can morph your texts using Markov chaining and various other techniques. It has been described (albeit generously) as 'Photoshop for text'.

JanusNode is the direct descendent of an old program called 'McPoet' that I started writing in the mid-80s. The program has been in sporadic but continuous development since that time. I do not intend to definitively stop working on it in my lifetime.

(Source: http://janusnode.com/)

Nothing You Have Done Deserves Such Praise is an art/ poetry/ adventuring game, a playland for exploring our ever-present desire for constant and over-blown rewards. Our worlds (digital and breathing) are filled with needless and unearned praise, we are built to love exploding trophies for fifth place. This art/poetry game satisfies your compliment addiction by celebrating your walking/ jumping/ falling through strange and wondrous anatomical lands.Nothing You Have Done Deserves Such Praise is a 2013 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for its Turbulence website. It was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

(Source: Turbulence)

An interactive hypertext piece based on the sefirotic tree of the Kabbalah. "Storms" is organized in vocalic and consonantal bifurcations. To navigate through the poem one is invited to click on a letter at any given time. In some instances, navigation can also take place by clicking outside the word. If the reader does not make a choice, that is, if he or she does not click on a vowel or consonant, or in some instances also on empty space, the reader will remain stationary. The poem does not have an ending. This means that one can continue to explore different textual navigation possibilities or quit at anytime. Originally a Hypercard stack, it is available below in an identical Flash translation. (source: author)

A collection of texts, which combine based on next-word branching (similar to Leaving the City).  By taking a given word on a page, an underlying script will find all other instances of that word in the supplied corpus, and randomly determine which work's text to shift into.

Collocations is an anthology consisting of:

"Under It All 2"

"A Refinement of Language"

"Indra's PoemPoem"

"Critical Theory"

Each of these uses similar methods of generating acrostic text to create the final work.

Generative and combinatory translation of "O Corvo/The Crow" (Fernando Pessoa / Edgar A. Poe). Created for the Núcleo de Estudos do Modernismo em Língua Portuguesa, Universidade Fernando Pessoa.

Work created for Oficinas do Convento de 2009, Conversas à Volta do Peso e da Leveza, Montemor-o-Novo. Texts and words by Fernando Pessoa and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andersen