The main character in the Book App 'Bitterveld' travels with the Berlin S-Bahn and U-Bahn to different World War II memorials and observes fellow travelers. How are the observations and Wold War II connected? The major World War II events happened a long time ago, but are still relevant today.
In de Book App Bitterveld reist de hoofdpersoon met de Berlijnse S-Bahn en U-Bahn naar de verschillende herdenkingsmonumenten van de stad en observeert de medereizigers. Welk verband is er tussen die observaties en de Tweede Wereldoorlog? De gebeurtenissen van toen lijken lang geleden, maar hebben wel degelijk met onze tijd te maken.
In de Book App Bitterveld reist de hoofdpersoon met de Berlijnse S-Bahn en U-Bahn naar de verschillende herdenkingsmonumenten van de stad en observeert de medereizigers. Welk verband is er tussen die observaties en de Tweede Wereldoorlog? De gebeurtenissen van toen lijken lang geleden, maar hebben wel degelijk met onze tijd te maken.
500 Apocalypses is a digital memorial comprised of five hundred curated entries from the Encyclopedia Apocalyptica.
Each entry of the Encyclopedia Apocalyptica contains a brief narrative fragment, devoid of context. The perspective, tone, and general character of these fragments differ from entry to entry. Many are small flashes of experience, recorded from a first-person perspective. Some appear to be dialogues between two or more speakers. Some are broader considerations of entire civilizations. Others are less easily categorized, however, including millions that appear to us as gibberish. Generally speaking, the entries do not run longer than five hundred words; many are only one or two lines long. At the individual level, the entries often appear to have nothing to do with one another.Taken as a larger dataset, the common thread running through entries of the Encyclopedia Apocalyptica is clear: each is a window into the collapse of a unique extraterrestrial society on a distant planet. Some capture moments that appear to precede the end of a civilization; some capture the moment of collapse itself; some capture moments from the chaotic time following the event that triggers the destruction of a people.
(self-description within the work)
This exquisitely designed site contains poetry in several modes: in lines of verse, as visual poetry, and as an e-poem that responds to the reader’s symbolic presence in the text: the pointer. The site is conceptualized “as a grave” made of [web] pages, words “flung to the far corners / of the earth” (quoted from the site manifesto). Each page consists of images and words arranged and offer the reader two ways of viewing the composition: discover (which keeps links hidden for reader to explore the surface of the image for them) and unearth (which provides a sepia tone for the background and reveals the links in the text, along with useful labels for them). Verbally it is also a collage of voices: from the victims to the pilot of the Enola Gay, who delivered the bomb in Hiroshima. This work is a powerful memorial to those lost in Hiroshima (and by extension Nagasaki). Simultaneously fascinating and horrifying, factual and ironic, the work reminds us of the very human side to the event and its aftermath.
(Source: Leonardo Flores)
The Living Liberia Fabric, initiated in affiliation with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Liberia, is an interactive, web-based narrative supporting the goal of lasting peace after years of civil war (1979-2003). It links concerns for liberation, dignity, and the future with needs for cultural foundations, human rights, truth, and reconciliation. Our system is based in Liberia's culture and the specifics of the conflicts, hence representing our cultural computing perspective. (source: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/icelab/content/living-liberia-fabric)
