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