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A gorge is a steep-sided canyon, a passage, a gullet. To gorge is to stuff with food, to devour greedily. Gorge is a poetry generator, a never-ending tract spewing verse approximations, poetic paroxysms on food, consumption, decadence and desire.The source code for Gorge is a hack of Montfort’s elegant poetry generator Taroko Gorge.

Selene and Chandra is created in the design of a thumb novel, a short story formatted for a touchscreen mobile phone. It is a narrative following twin sisters discovering the supernatural. The interface is customized to fit the theme and setting of the story; for example, paw prints and the story's pivotal dilapidated house embody the navigation, and the background shifts as each sister takes her turn in narration.

(Source: description from the Electronic Literature Exhibition catalogue)

Note: This work was featured in the 2012 Electronic Literature Exhibition on the computer station featuring Future Writers--Electronic Literature by Undergraduates from U.S. Universities--Mobile Works

Ruben And Lullaby is an interactive iPhone app/game that engages the user in a relationship between two lovers. Loyer labels this and similar projects as 'opertoons', stories that you can play. Ruben And Lullaby allows the user to shift focus between people, changing a characters mood by shaking or stroking. While the work is presented in black and white, the screen changes color based on the mood of the characters while also playing a responsive jazz soundtrack in the background. Annotated by Mike Scoggins.

(Source: Description from the Electronic Literature Exhibition catalogue)

Shadows Never Sleep is a visual poem made for the Apple iPhone that can also be viewed on a web browser. The reader can move on to different pictures by clicking on certain points on the screen. The poem is non-linear and the stanzas can be read in any order on each picture. It describes different kinds of shadows using black and white text and images. Annotated by Kevin Chen.

(Source: Description from the Electronic Literature Exhibition catalogue)

A vault installation featuring Jim Carpenter's Electronic Text Composition (ETC). The installation includes automated as well as self-service poetry stations and wall panels of code.

Information on the exhibition "Public Override Void," an overview of the project with examples of the code, and an audio recording of 49 poems generated by the poetry engine and edited by Jim Carpenter, has been made availabe online: http://slought.org/content/11207/ A recording of the public conversation between Bob Perelman, Nick Montfort, and Jean-Michel Rabaté is available: http://slought.org/content/11199/

Text generator created by Jim Carpenter as part of his Electronic Text Composition (ETC) project which creates poetry under the pen name Erica T. Carter. The application is offline at the time this entry is written.

Red Lily is a Flash poem divided into three musical movements that address the pain of lost love. Visual symbols, like a child playing with ducklings and a calla lily, juxtapose innocence and death, while the sound of the tolling bell coupled with textual clues of blood and needles emphasize love's end.

(Source: description from the Electronic Literature Exhibition, MLA 2012)

Typoems is a series of concrete poetry.

R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX (remixworx) - selected works:

an online journal of digital art and writing - 2006 to 2012

R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX (remixworx) is a space for the remixing of digital media, including visual poetry (vispo), electronic poetry (flashpo), playable media, animation, music, spoken word, texts and more. It began as a blog in November 2006 and has grown to number over 500 individual works of media. The source material is made available and all media is freely given to be remixed. Each new work is remixed, literally or conceptually, from other works on the blog. Then, the new work is linked to the blog post(s) that contain the component parts, thus the blog 'talks to itself' - "I link therefore I am" (Mark Amerika). The project promotes no single 'author', and we keep dogma chained outside the gate. It is not a tame place, though, and artful innuendo is evident.

R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX is also a playful environment - as with much 'creative discourse' - and we are always surprised and delighted by the remixes. We respond to each other, to newsworthy events, and to trends in politics or art. Some works have been remixed several times and represent a creative dialogue that utilizes social software to explore 'open source', "a philosophy ... that promotes free redistribution" (Wikipedia). We sometimes post completely new work because R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX needs to be fed. In regards artistic practice, R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX is unabashedly new media - 'born digital' - but the project has roots in photography, literature, audio technology, film, animation, poetry, computer programming, dada and outsider art.

R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX is a creative micro-community. Most members were brought together, initially, by the trAce Online Writing Community. R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX continues in a spirit of learning and sharing - in the original spirit of the World Wide Web. Some members have won awards of one kind or another for digital art and writing. Often, in the heat of working on a complex project, a person needs to let off steam - R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX is a place for that, as well.

R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX is an accumulation of spontaneous ideas that spawn at random intervals, a flexible community, an adaptable entity that has been shown in a variety of ways - performed live at festivals and conferences, or remixed live as part of DJ/VJ events. The gallery page of 'selected works' has been created to 'open the project up', so to speak, with a visual interface, separate from the blog. It is presented as an online journal of digital art and writing that spans 2006 to 2012.

UPDATE: the R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX - selected works web page is no longer available but the R3M1XW0RX archive is accessible here: http://remixworx.com/