Riveted in the Word is an interior narrative inspired by the true story of a writer/historian’s hard-fought battle to regain language after a devastating stroke. Author/designer Warren Lehrer and electronic literature developer Artemio Morales developed the multimodal book app as a way of placing the reader inside the mind of the protagonist as she recalls her journey with Broca’s aphasia. … Read More
FACETS
FACETS is a creative and analytical project exploring how public narratives are shaped. Stories are formed not just by events, but by framing, archetypes, expectation, and collective belief. FACETS looks at stories not as fixed truths, but as structures formed through perception. Every public story has multiple surfaces. The images used for the site are painted in VR and the … Read More
Walk With Me
This is the story of Dee, a ceramic arts student who goes on a walk. As you, the reader, chooses the route, the conversations change and you uncover new sides of Dee and stories from her past. This work is an exploration of the many things that define us and how we often only reveal only parts of ourselves to … Read More
A Paper-Cut Canyon
A Paper-Cut Canyon is an infinite journey through high walls cluttered with large 3D texts. In the distance the texts are only outlines, unrealised, not fully formed. As you move (arrow keys, mouse to look around) the texts become real, full and solid. When you press the Process button, the texts are selected from the walls, tossed into the middle, … Read More
Diver Quilt Magnet
Diver Quilt Magnet generates a near infinite series of fictional creatures. When you start the work, a creature comes alive with a name, a life and an embodied animated self. It exists and is unique, has a digital existence. However, to create a new creature, you must first end, kill, destroy the creature you’ve brought to breath. And when you … Read More
Today I will Fly
Today I Will Fly was made as electronic literature for a simple university assignment, yet it was not so simple. On this day you wake up, and you know how it will end. Today you will fly, your wings will grow and you will leave this earth for good. The story is a myriad of things, a critique on capitalism, … Read More
Please, Ask Me Something Else
E-poetry/sound art on-line work. Experimental. Post conceptual (?). No box, also. Animation, sound and words. In no particular hierarchy. Using its media as a programmable/generative one. At any experience different but same. Online. Web based. Free to access. Taking a semantic look at online wrongs and currently forbidden words by certain power structures. Not easy. Contemplating silence and togetherness. Online … Read More
Within and Against/ Against and Within
What sets Within and Against apart is its use of algorithmic composition to continuously generate poetry that is never quite the same. Each line in English offers stillness, depth, or surrender , and each opposing Guajarti line resists with motion, heat, or conflict. The reader is not simply a viewer but a listener to two voices negotiating meaning in parallel. … Read More
Once Upon A Murder
Once Upon A Murder is a fairytale murder mystery. It is an interactive PDF that allows the reader to choose their own path through the investigation.
Lost Water! Remainscape
Lost Water! Remainscape? (LWR) is a digital literary project sponsored by the AHRC at Lancaster University, UK, under Digital Innovation in Water Scarcity in Coimbatore. It visualizes water scarcity in Coimbatore, South India, a region facing prolonged water stress and recurring droughts due to climate change and urbanization. Drawing on archival maps, historical records, and oral narratives, the project represents … Read More