Les huit quartiers du sommeil

Submitted by Benoit Bordeleau on Wed, 04/15/2009 - 12:01

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L'auteure nous propose de visiter différents quartiers de Montréal en se penchant sur les différentes qualités de sommeil qu'on y retrouve. D'une arrivée sans sommeil par train de nuit aux nuits bruyantes du Mile End, on retrouve la même attention à ces détails qui font d'un quartier ce qu'il est et qui permettent de saisir la vie montréalaise par petites bouffées. Rendue possible grâce à l'application Google Maps, l'oeuvre met l'internaute face d'un système de navigation très intuitif (cliquer-tirer). Si l'interface est simple, celle-ci permet toutefois de porter l'attention sur le texte, qui est le véritable coeur de l'oeuvre. De la fatigue d'un déménagement aux cris des vieux voisins, en passant par les courants d'air froid, l'internaute est invité, dans Les huit quartiers du sommeil, à s'approprier des anecdotes savoureuses.

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PROLOGUE: The night train tunnels termite-determined through silent miles of bark-black forest. Passengers forage for provisions, restless-long this expedition; minds race ahead, pace coach and sleeping class compartments listing along the fleuve Saint-Laurent, dip-slice-glide-lurch-swaying, steady-forward, slow as the Voyageurs' paddles. (http://luckysoap.com/huitquartiers/)

I moved to Motnreal [sic] on the night train. I've lived in eight neighbourhoods since. Each has had a different quality of sleep. (http://luckysoap.com/huitquartiers/)

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Des versions HTML ainsi que Google Maps de l'oeuvre sont disponibles en allant à l'adresse suivante: http://luckysoap.com/webprojects.html. Il peut être intéressant pour l'internaute de consulter les deux versions puisqu'elles offrent quelques différences de contenu et d'interface. L'oeuvre a d'autre part été hébergée sur Rhizome ArtBase (http://rhizome.org/) ainsi que sur 00130Gallery (http://www.00130gallery.net/webart.html, sous sites 2, work 10).

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Carpenter, J. R.

J. R. Carpenter is a Canadian artist, writer, researcher, performer and maker of maps, zines, books, poetry, short fiction, long fiction, non-fiction, and non-linear, intertextual, hypermedia, and computer-generated narratives. Her pioneering works of digital literature have been exhibited, published, performed, and presented in journals, galleries, museums, and festivals around the world. She is a winner of the CBC Quebec Writing Competition (2003 & 2005), the QWF Carte Blanche Quebec Award (2008), and the Expozine Alternative Press Award for Best English Book for her first novel, Words the Dog Knows (2008). Her second book, GENERATION[S], a collection of code narratives, was published by Traumawien in 2010. In 2012 her web-based work CityFish was short-listed for the New Media Writing Prize in Bournemouth, UK, and the Electronic Literature Organization presented a retrospective of her work in Morgantown, WV, USA. She has served as a Digital Literature and Performance Writing faculty mentor for the In(ter)ventions: Literary Practice at the Edge residency program at The Banff Centre since its inception in 2010. She is currently a PhD researcher at Falmouth University in association with University of the Arts London. She lives in South Devon, England. (http://luckysoap.com/bio.html)

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