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Life 2.0 is a playable version of a poem originally printed in Ole-Petter Arneberg's collection of short prose, MEPÅNO, which was published by Flamme forlag. The playable version of the piece allows the player/reader to "play" at living by using keyboard commands similar to that on a game controller, where each of the key combinations causes a word to appear in the background of the screen as it is simultaneously read aloud. The content of this "life 2.0" is very bare, centering on basic needs: primarily sex, food, drink and sleep.

The net exhibition SONNE ORDKLIP [Sonne Wordclip(s)] is divided up ito 14 series', where some are thematic according to the usual rigid encyclopedia principles, while others are more directly related via a single common word-clip. The following, for example: DK [abreviation for Denmark]-CULTURE-SOC, EGO-PSYCH, GO, "LITT", ZOO, WORD, BOO, CHIDREN, CORPSE, OUT, LANGUAGE, ART, FOOD, LYRICAL NATUR. They are texts - or whatever one wants to call them - which, in their insistent overexcited play with the meaning and visuality of language, have no equal in contemporary Danish poetry. We have to go back to the good old dadaists' collages and montages - Kurt Schwitters' for example - to find competitive parallels.

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.