multilingual or non-english

Eight attempts in understanding what a book is.

A virtual lexicon of contemporary culture rhetoric. Each word is explained or illustrated through image, sound, text, animation or interactivity. Style and characteristics of each entry can vary from the highly informative to the satirical and humorous.

In the film ”when” Ottar Ormstad is transferring his practice as concrete poet to the realm of a programmable networked space, blending his poetry with specially composed modern music with electronic elements. His b/w photographs developed in the darkroom are presented in combination with words in different languages, some of them exceeded into ”letter-carpets”. Some sentences are from well known songs or films, other letter-combinations are invented by the author.

The film is telling a story about life and death, basically from the standpoint of cars, rotten in a field in Sweden. The narrative is very open, and each viewer may experience the film very differently. This is also dependent upon the language background, any translation is – intentionally – not given.

when has been screened at festivals for experimental short film, so far in France, Romania, Russia and Norway.

"Imaginary Landscape 4.1 (betamix)" is an attempt to think what Greek post-print fiction might look like. Its main narrative is made up of two narrative strands;  a metanarrative commenting on the process of the composition of the text itself along with some fragments of computer code and other discourse complete the text. "Imaginary Landscape 4.1 (betamix)" is an attempt to meditate on the relationship of Greek language to programming code. 

Author description: The first part of the project, Tierra de Extracción 1.0, was begun in 1996 and completed in 2000 for the Multimedia Writing Seminar promoted by the Center for Communication Research at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (Caracas). In a quest for a multimedia rhetoric, we then began to develop Tierra de Extracción 2.0, which was completed and published in 2007. With 63 hypermedia chapters, the action takes place in the region of Zulia, in a town called Menegrande, the location of the first big Venezuelan oil well: Zumaque I, which started the commercial era of oil production in the country in 1914. The narration occurs in three distinct periods: the beginning and ending of the 20th century and a period in between. At a certain moment, which very well can be the beginning or the end according to the path taken by the reader, the stories break their natural timeline and are united in the same space.