Slovak

BA-Tale is an interactive, intermedial electronic literature piece, whose narrative is a fake myth about the formation of Slovakia’s capital—Bratislava. The way the reader engages with the piece brings about the concept of myth as an oral narrative and re-contextualizes it. The story is read in fragments—semantic units from the scattered moving text. The aspect of catching a fragment in time reminds one of listening to the oral story, although the necessity to remember the subsequent words in order to proceed adds a new aspect to this tradition. The sound is randomly computer-chosen from our database that defines for each unit a number of sounds. The semantically most important word of the unit was used as a keyword to find several corresponding sounds in freesounds.org.

Interaction: The first line of the story is marked white. You mouse over the first line and then you follow by mousing over any of the white marked words. These words group into a string. When mouse-released, another group of words turns white. By following the marked units, you can read the whole narrative string in a sequence. But you do not have to—and can create your own.

Poem Pulse is an g.a.c.o.i. (Generative, Autopoietic, Collaborative, Open-ended, Intermedial) electronic literary piece.

G:

generative is the poem's last stanza of– system picks out one minipulse out of the list of the saved minipulses

generative is the visual – the leading geometry and thus also the placement of the lyrics

generative is the composition of the loops of the main melody

A:

the concept of its being autopoietic represents the fact, that the final stanza is a minipoem that was created from the words of the whole poem, thus creating a part of it from itself

C:

pulse is collaborative because after having read the whole poem, a reader can create her own minipoem by clicking on the projected words of pulse

O:

its open-ended nature allows (through reader's submission of the minipoem and its saving) to extend the list of minipoems, out of which generates the stanza of the next pulses

I:

intermediality brings about the multisensory experience as well as refers to phenomena that broaden the poem's concept above the textual semantics. The drawing of the lines helps the reader follow the path of the unpacking words prior to their emergence. Thus the reader can get better oriented. One of the sound loops consists of sound elements recorded in Bratislava city centre and thus enriches the poem by a geographic dimension.