poëzie 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.

A potential polyphony is an interactive text compilation which results in an ever-changing polyphone word-image composition. The visitor can, at its discretion, turn on, play, and turn off the six sequences that make up the work. This video is part of the project Zelf worden See www.zelfworden.nl. (translation description Literatuur Op Het Scherm)

Poet Arnoud Van Adrichem and graphic designers Cox & Grusenmeyer developed under this creed a mobile browser "Money", in which hard-working taxpayers can reimburse their money by reading poems. How does it exactly work? All banks in Amsterdam are equiped by highly recognizable stickers which can be scanned with a smartphone or a tablet. These poems, who gain their visibility through the use of present-day technology, recoup about 0,11 euro each; an amount which almost accords to the taxes that someone with an average yearly income, daily loses on cultural purposes. "Money is a kind of poetry", according to Wallace Stevens. This application proves once again its purpose.