Penetration

Submitted by NT2 on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 16:13

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Penetration est une oeuvre de poésie hypertextuelle. Après la lecture de chaque poème, plusieurs choix sont offerts au lecteur. Robert Kendall est un pionné de l'art hypermédiatique, comme en témoigne sa publication chez Eastgate Systems. L'oeuvre contient une fonction permettant d'enregistrer l'évolution de la lecture de l'internaute. Ainsi, celui-ci peut fermer son navigateur et, quelques jours plus tard, poursuivre sa lecture.

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Hosting website:

Eastgate Systems Inc.

Hosting website URL:

http://www.eastgate.com

Date of last consultation:

November 12, 2006

Coordonnées de l'artiste:
http://www.wordcircuits.com/kendall/
Groupe de recherche:
Chaire de recherche du Canada en littérature contemporaine

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Penetration focuses on two individuals, a father and daughter. The natural world around them takes on the role of a third character called the Mothering Earth. Whenever you move the mouse pointer over a link, the status bar at the bottom of the window indicates which character the link leads to. Links leading to unvisited nodes (that is, sections of text not yet read) are white, while dark green links indicate nodes that you have already visited. A shade of light green (lying between the other two link colors) signifies that you have visited the node but it has not been fully revealed to you. If you click on a light green link to return to one of these partially revealed nodes, you will find the node's contents altered to reflect the new context in which you are reading it. This is accomplished by means of variable text elements created with the Connection System.

Biography

Kendall, Robert

Robert Kendall has been creating interactive multimedia poetry since 1990, making him one of the earliest practitioners of the form. He is the author of a book-length hypertext poem, A Life Set for Two (Eastgate Systems, 1996).

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