TY - ART
TI - Reactive Media MEETS e-poetry
AU - Megan Sapnar
AB - <p>"The Web is a dynamic, interactive, nonlinear, global, distributed, 
                    digital media system -- just to use a few Internet-related 
                    buzzwords. Aren't there enough adjectives to describe this 
                    technology? Why insist on the significance of yet another?</p>
                  <p>This issue of <em>Poems that Go</em> focuses on 'reactive'
                    media, text or images that responds in real time to the direct 
                    actions of the viewer. Experimental graphics designer John 
                    Maeda, who programmed computer images to react immediately 
                    to viewer input, pioneered the computing method associated 
                    with 'reactive graphics.' His 1995 work, <em>The 
                    Reactive Square</em>, was a book with accompanying floppy 
                    disk (later editions included CD-ROM) for the Macintosh which 
                    consisted of a graphical square that visually responded to 
                    sound-- singing, shouting or talking to the image on the computer 
                    screen yielded distinct visual responses (that is, as long 
                    as viewers had a microphone plugged into their Mac)." -- from <em>Reactive Media MEETS e-poetry</em>, Poems that GO, Winter 2003</p>
C3 - Web
PY - 2003
LA - English
M3 - Web, Essay
UR - https://the-next.eliterature.org/works/2548/0/0/
DB - The NEXT
Y2 - 2025-04-19
ER -