Presented at conference or festival

This comic strip narrative in prose and verse reinvents the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, but with a character called “Hobo Lobo.” Reimagining the comic strip using Scott McCloud’s notion of the “infinite canvas” the comic goes beyond the traditional implementation of a two-dimensional strip. The innovative aspect is that he uses layers to produce a three dimensional parallax effect when the reader scrolls and rethinks the panel by centering layers on adjacent segments on the strip, as he explains in his Parallaxer tutorial. The effect of these layers and panel transitions enhances narrative continuity in panel transitions by replacing the comics gutter with the more cinematic mise-en-scène. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry) This digital broadside adapts the story and setting of the medieval Pied Piper. A mixture of European folktale, political satire, and internet snark, Stevan Živadinović’s Hobo Lobo of Hamelin is one of the first examples of digital sequential art to make use of parallax and limited animation. The result is a side-scrolling comic that takes the form of what Scott McCloud has called the “infinite canvas.” A wolf turned Renaissance journeyman travels to the town of Hamelin where the local mayor refuses to pay him for ridding the town of “coked-up rats.” The story unfolds by playing with static and kinetic imagery, blending the logic of 2D and 3D space together in hybrid ways. Rather than using the “gutters” and page breaks of traditional comics, Hobo Lobo’s polylinear timeline proceeds unbroken as the reader scrolls through the episodes. (Source: Editorial statement, ELC vol. 3)

Hurst is a cinematic network fiction, told through the Twitter account of virtual character Karen Barley. The work was performed as a 3 week live event that began in June 2011. Synopsis: Karen Barley is convinced by her sinister Boss to take on an outdoors project in an ancient Bronze Age woods. Her boyfriend Darren is excited about a mysterious legend of the Hurst and cant wait to find a hidden path he's heard of. On first appearance the Hurst seems mundane, with traffic and people close by. But gradually they begin to experience strange sounds and druid like signs. And when Darren discovers the path he opens a portal that lets in his Other. Convinced that her boyfriend is trying to frighten her, Karen slowly spirals into a deadly paranoia that result in tragic consequences. And all the while her madness is played out for all to see as she uses Twitter to tell everyone whats happening.

Hermenetka is a project of Net Art that generates fortuitous cartographies from search engines in data bases. The starting point of the Hermenetka project is the Mediterranean view as spiritual scenery of thoughts, as method and search of knowledge. Hermenetka is an acronym formed from the association of Hermes, Greek god of communication and exchange; Net, from Internet and "Ka", a very complex part of the symbolism in ancient Egyptian mythology, Ka represents the consciousness and the guide of the invisible world, the kingdom of the dead. In contemporary era, the metaphor of the "sea between territories" (Mediterranean) embodies in the flows and the exchanges of cyberspace. The proposal of the Hermenetka is to generate plural cartographies of the seas of data that populate the quotidian of the cyberculture. The project is constituted by two types of mappings. In the first one, it is possible to generate a map in real time from topics that gravitate around the concept of the Mediterranean.The second possibility consists in answering the question "What is the Mediterranean for you?". In this case, your reply triggers a research in cyberspace for images and texts that will compose a unique map. The aesthetics project associates remixing, transparencies and revisits the watercolor techniques and collage practices of Robert Rauschemberg. In both cases, the image is generated at random and composed of different sizes and levels of transparent overlaying of images and texts. (Source: Author's description)

Videoperformance, 52”

Using a transparent oilbar and a window reflecting the sunny sky in Basel, Betty Leirner relates the subjects of language, thought and object, while Florian Kutzli relates photography to film by shooting 2.538 pictures with a Nikon D2 photo camera in order to actualize 'practices of meaning' - a fotofilm. (Source: reelport catalog)

nobody knows but you was written for Double-Cute Battle Mode, an application prototype for a VJ (video jockey) remix battle. DCBM allows two players to combine visuals and special effects in a playful competition for screen space. Using joysticks, players plug their imagination into their computer and share a creative space in an intuitive video-game style interaction. The piece was conceived as a way to ease text back into an image-dominated culture by treating it simultaneously as a visual special effect and as a poem. The twenty-three verses appear on a plane in three-dimensional space. A cube shape displays additional visuals. Both the cube and the plane may be scaled and rotated, and the reader has control over which verse or image is displayed. You may notice in the image at top left, or while watching the installation video, a twelve-year-old girl plopped down in front of the installation. She played with the piece on and off for three hours. She began singing the words, making up melodies and turning certain verses into refrains. There is a clear lack of literature that responds to the intellectual and creative needs of young people today. I hope that interactive writing can help to fill that gap. (Source: author)

A crissxross trail < R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX is a meta-remix of the artist's personal creative journey through remixworx, a collaborative online remixing project. Conceived as a poetic interactive infographic with lots of multimedia animated content, this 'scenic route' presents a sample trail of 33 out of the 100 remixes that Christine Wilks (aka crissxross) has created since joining remixworx in January 2007. The trail includes a text commentary about her experience of remixing and co-creating over the past six years.

A crissxross trail < R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX: one remix player's scenic route through remixworx formed the core of Christine Wilks's presentation for the ELMCIP Conference on Remediating the Social in November 2012.

"pleintekst.nl" is an intelligently designed, highly conceptual text generator. "Pleintekst" works on text material with a set of algorithms for text transformation and typography. It mixes fragments of real time data from the operating computer system with passages from George Battaille’s "History of the Eye" (mind words like "pussy" and "milk") and with an email dialogue between Cramer and Mary Anne Breeze. The machine is continuously started by interpassively clicking in any active field. Beyond, you may read, observe, associate and speculate over the profound reasoning behind the project, get frustrated or simply leave things to fend for themselves.

(Source: Friedrich W. Block: Paper given at the "Archive&Innovate" conference
of the Electronic Literature Organization at Brown University, Providence, June 3-6, 2010)