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A poem in 3 languages with an equal number of voices and an infinite number of experiences. Part games, part story, within this 'Pulp Culture' experience, the abstract behaviour of verbal form leaves space for various interpretations of the text. Depending on the user, www.onderhandelingen.com is a multivocal monologue or a dialogue. Due to the different sequences and conjunctions of sound and typography, the manuscript of Tsead Bruinja is different every time: Lit de ûnderhannelings begjinne! Laat de onderhandelingen beginnen! Let the negotiations commence! (a word game by the Frisian Tsead Bruinja, the American Ryan Pescatore Frisk and Dutch Catelijne van Middelkoop) (Translation Description on Literatuur Op Het Scherm)

Ah articulates a simple paradox of reading animated digital literature, which is that the eye, and by extension the mind, often has no sense of the future of a sentence or line of text and, more importantly, is not given the chance to retread an already witnessed word or phrase. Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industry's Dakota is a perfect illustration of this principle. In Ah, the central object of rumination is Einstein, but just as the physicist pondered the numberless variations between the presence of a "1" and "0," this Flash animation brings us back and forth between clever articulations and the ambiguous expressivity of single letters and syllables.

This animation made by Pascale Brinkel is based on the poem 'Aftelversje' by Judy Elfferich and was created in fall 2009 in the e-poetry [digidicht] workshop at the AKI in Enschede.

The poem tells about a person who wants to leave someone and because of that spews a tirade of made-up curse words. I have translated this by making the words surround the text "I accuse you": when you read the poem you feel as if too many things are thrown at you resulting in an unclear situation.

The game has 2 ends:
The last line of the poem by Ad Poppelaars
A poem written by Vera in which all bad words are taken back and you are praised instead.

(translation description Literatuur Op Het Scherm)

This work is an arkanoid game with words instead of blocks and the word 'ik' (I) instead of a ball. Your goal is to knock down the words, thus creating different texts.

200ton TNT is an audiovisual project that utilises the augmented reality (AR) possibilities of smartphones and tablets. Poet and philosopher Maarten Doorman made 7 letter poems that are shown at the well-known TNT mailbox. These poems are designed and animated by Nils Mühlenbruch and P.J. Roggeband in the 200t TNT app, which is available for free in the app store.

(Source: Translation from description on YouTube)

A sea expert interprets the sea and convinces the audience. But the sea doesn’t agree.

(Source: janpeeters.info)

Channel of the North is a collaborative project by Jan Baeke and Alfred Marseille that combines data visualization, poetry, and telepresence through a series of poems that expand and contract based on the ebb and flow of the tides located in the Westerschelde river at the Dutch-Belgian border. Although a user may access this kinetic poetry anywhere in the world, the geological temporality of the poem is always rooted in a particular space and time in a way that sits in a tradition of artwork such as David Bowen’s tele-present water and tele-present wind. While the dissemination of text is not typically indexed to a physical referent, Channel of the North offers a contemplative moment when poetry becomes a vehicle for exploring the relationship between the flow of geological processes, the flow of networked computation, and the flow of language. Nicole Starosielski’s The Undersea Network charts the long relationship between water and networked communication based on how the subterranean network of private undersea cables are connected to a history of empire, colonialism, and geopolitical conflict and commerce. These undersea undulations between channels of water and data find poetic expression in Baeke and Marseille’s work as the Westerschelde is made to flow through an interconnected network of oceanic and electric currents.

(Source: ELC 3)