slippingglimpse

• CreatorStephanie Strickland, Cynthia Jaramillo & Paul Ryan
• Year Published2007
• Origionally Published OnAuthor's Website

"slippingglimpse" was originally published on the author's website and later re-published in the Electronic Literature Collection 2 in 2011. Strickland says of her work that "[i]n 'slippingglimpse,' we model a ring in which the roles of initiator, responder, and mediator are taken by all elements in turn. Our mantra for this: water reads text, text reads technology, technology reads water, coming full circle. Reading then comes to mean something different at each stage of the poem, in all cases involving sampling. Ryan reads and captures the image of 'chreods' (dynamic attractors) in water. Strickland's poem text, by sampling, appropriating, and aggregating artists' descriptions of processes of capture, reads this process of capture. And the water reads, via Lawson Jaramillo's motion-capture coding, by imposing its own sampled pattern. A variety of reading experiences are enabled: reading images while watching text; reading in concert with non-human readers, computer and water; reading frame breaks (into scroll or background); or reading by intervening. For instance, reversibility and replay are available on the scroll, as are reading in the direction and speed you wish; while, in the water, regeneration of text is available, as are unpredictable jostling and overlays."--From Electronic Literature Collection 2