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Untitled by Squid S
o u p [German]
A navigation able
3-D-Environment, walls constructed out of letters, which one can walk
through. A sound loop, from time to time some men mutter something
about generic drugs. If you click the walls letters appear, making
sound. Squid S o u p wants to convey "A feeling of being somewhere". A
intriguing example of the aesthetics of the sensual.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/09/26-Simanowski
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Redridinghood by
Donna Leishman [German]
Leishman's rendition of
Red Riding Hood is inundated with hybridizations of the traditional
fairy-tale narrative: the wolf pre-existing as a picture in her diary,
as a dealer at the "flesh market", an angel which does not stop to
rescue her. However, once she has eaten the wolf she is pregnant with
herself. Redridinghood from a feminist perspective? From the
perspective of Flash rhetoric, in any case An impressive piece that
doesn't lack taci elements.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/08/11-Simanowski
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I concrete myself in a
oscillating world by Frank Richter [German]
Richter's answer to the
question "Who am I today? What will we do tomorrow?" is a self portrait
manipulated by Flash, JavaScripts and dynamic layers. This leads to
interesting effects in deconstructive photo-philosophy. If she could
program, Cindy Sherman would have done things like this. However, she
would have avoided the repetitions and would have better merged
photography and text, argues Roberto Simanowski.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/06/25-Simanowski
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These Waves of Girls by
Caitlin Fisher [German]
The ELO Award 2001 goes
to Caitlin Fisher's hyperfiction These Waves of Girls. Why did the jury
give the award to this brave narrative project instead of other
contributions set up much more radically within the means of digital
media? Was it the multimedial packing? Was it the suit of memorizing
appropriate to hyperstructure? Was it the sexy topic of lesbian
identity? Roberto Simanowski introduces the piece and adds some general
thoughts on the semantics of linkage, text-image-relation, and aspects
of design.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2001/06/20-Simanowski
Web/Fiction/Design - a
brief beta-testt [German/English]
The piece loads too
slowly, uses outdated technology, has sloppy programming, shows the
design of an optical overkill, and the treatment of its topic utterly
ignores its predecessors and the genuine features of hypertext it could
have employed. Anja Rau's critique is well informed regarding both
technique and content.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2001/10/31-Rau
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