reinterpretation

(Re)Playing The Lottery is a dynamic reinterpretation of Shirley Jackson's famous short story, "The Lottery." It presents a scenario in which the interactor is a a citizen of the small town on the day of the fateful lottery, and must move through the story by making various choices which result in random outcomes - no matter how many times the story is played, past results are no guide to future outcome. Just as the story hinges on the chance selection of a marked ballot from a box, this piece employs chance selection as its central mechanic, demonstrating one way in which interactive media can help readers inhabit and interrogate existing texts from multiple perspectives. (Source: ELO Conference 2014)

Observing that Keats's poem “reads like a program written for human software,” Josh Whitereinterprets “The Living Hand” in the voice of an artificially intelligent robotic computer system.Notions of persistence and durability reappear here in the guise of digital emulation. The end resultis a commented code poem in pseudo-C++ that changes the original “so as to produce an alternativethat is different yet recognizably related to it.” [from an Introduction by Prof. Kari Kraus]

(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--Works on Desktop