Mountain Rumbles

Soumis par NT2 le mer, 10/24/2007 - 16:13

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Mountain Rumbles est un micro-hypertexte poétique (poésie en prose) à 8 noeuds. On se déplace dans l'oeuvre en glissant le curseur sur l'idéogramme sur la gauche ou en cliquant sur les hyperliens dans les textes qui apparaissent à droite.

Anciennement hébergée sur le site de Deena Larsen au http://www.deenalarsen.net/kanjis/yama/index.htm, l'oeuvre est encore disponible dans les archives du magazine The New River sur le site Web du Center for Digital Discourse and Culture de Virginia Tech, au http://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/larsend/yama/index.html.

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Site d'hébergement:

Center for Digital Discourse and Culture @ Virginia Tech

URL du site d'hébergement:

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

Date de dernière consultation de l'oeuvre:

07 Octobre 2006

Coordonnées de l'artiste:
textra@chisp.net
Groupe de recherche:
Chaire de recherche du Canada en littérature contemporaine

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I know the darkness. The hidden places that it possesses fully. The effortless way it takes over everything in the end. The undersides of shadows. And grudgingly, I admire them, though I would prefer to be an aspen shaking off sunlight, switching my investments from emerald to gold to silver whenever the seasons took my senses. The shadows stay silent, savoring the Japanese fairy tale of the gold koi and the ebony, of the light which needs the darkness to make the treasure real.

Discours (notes)

Author's Note - Mountain Rumbles "Mountain Rumbles" demonstrates the integral relationship between structure and content. To paraphrase Brother Antonius, who said the symbol IS the symbolized--and the symbolized IS the symbol, the structure IS the content--and the content IS the structure. To emphasize this relationship, "Mountain Rumbles" is based on the japanese kanji for mountain. These micro-hypertexts further show that we can have one-minute hypertexts--that connections are not based on the size of the content, but rather the content itself. I used Photoshop to create the image. Miko Matsumura, Richard Higgason,and I huddled in a back office during TP21CL at Brown to develop the javascript and java applet needed for this program. I then used my living room wall and embrodiery thread to map the links, Claris Homepage to develop the image map, and simple text to write the html code. I have used Storyspace--probably the best program around for visualizingrelationships between writing spaces, HyperCard--probably the most flexible and useful program for doing just about anything, Dreamweaver, Front Page, etc. Still, I have yet to find a way to quickly and easily transfer the structures in my mind to any reality. (http://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/larsend/mountainrumblesnote.html)

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Mountain Rumbles

Higgason, Richard

Matsumura, Miko

Larsen, Deena