Four Guillemets

Submitted by Joël Gauthier on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 14:47

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Four Guillemets est une expérimentation poétique générative de Loss Pequeño Glazier qui exploite le concept du quartet. L'oeuvre est divisée en quatre «pages» que l'internaute fait défiler grâce aux flèches placées au bas de la fenêtre de lecture. Chaque «page» est composée de quatre blocs textuels, eux-mêmes générés à partir de quatre fils textuels indépendants – correspondant aux quatre voix du quartet. Si l'internaute n'interagit pas avec le contenu affiché à l'écran, l'oeuvre génère de nouvelles variations des quatre blocs à intervalles réguliers. Il est toutefois possible de hâter le processus en cliquant sur le bouton placé sous la fenêtre de lecture, au milieu de l'écran.

Les blocs textuels générés par Four Guillemets utilisent l'itération pour créer de fines variations de sens à l'intérieur du poème. Il est toutefois difficile de saisir le sens du poème dans son ensemble, puisque les différents blocs ne sont pas traversés par un même fil narratif et/ou thématique. En effet, Loss Pequeño Glazier favorise plutôt les connexions sémantiques et logiques formelles:

These may be narratively disruptive, grammatically continuous, non-relatively contiguous (self-contained in meaning), or paratactic (physically adjacent but open-ended in semantic connection). [1]

Il est à noter que les images qui accompagnent chacune des pages de Four Guillemets sont elles aussi générer à partir de quatre fils de données visuelles.

[1] Extrait des notes placées par l'artiste à la fin de l'oeuvre.

Infos

Hosting website:

New River Journal

Hosting website URL:

http://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/

Date of last consultation:

January 15, 2013

Coordonnées de l'artiste:

glazier@buffalo.edu

Groupe de recherche:
NT2

Citation(s)

The recalcitrant records, enumerated fumblings, black-grooved, gumpy as the burro ride to Boquillas. / images foam / Browser script that moves any number of images around the page (by wrapping the recalcitrant characters at night, yolcatl. Insect, yoli. To live, yollotl. Heart, yolpaqui. To be happy, yuhquin.

Notes

READING NOTES: [1] The composition of Four Guillemets is structured as four "pages" (between front and back book "cover" screens). Each page refreshes at given intervals, generating fixed variants of each text. A button on the bottom of the screen also generates new (and sometimes repeat) iterations. This button allows you to accelerate the pace of the iterations. However, like time, the iterations cannot be delayed. / READING NOTES: [2] Each page has four main textual sections (with the middle two of these concatenated) plus an illustration. Each of the four sections on each page is itself constructed of four strings, from which it is generated. The images are also generated from four variants. Each page is generated in the manner of the performance of a quartet, with each element itself each drawn from four strings. The concatenated center text could also be called "stitched", like book signatures. / READING NOTES: [3] The quaternary textual sections generate narratives that are connected in various semantic and logical manners. These may be narratively disruptive, grammatically continuous, non-relatively contiguous (self-contained in meaning), or paratactic (physically adjacent but open-ended in semantic connection). The narrative of Four Guillemets is immanent, that is, not only drawn from the text that is displayed, but it is articulated via underlying structure; it consists of both that which is present and from that which is not displayed. / READING NOTES: [4] The tetrad framing of Four Guillemets both collapses and foregrounds gaps between iterations, locations where "meaning" meets structure. Here, what is not said is as integral to the formulation as what is said. It may be compared to any composition, "an arrangement in a system to pointing", in Gertrude Stein's words. Meaning emerges through the difference between iterations.

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