TY - ART
TI - The Cape
AU - J. R. Carpenter
AB - "<em>The Cape</em> is a short work that engages the history of visual print-based authority by combining impersonal, government-created images with a purportedly personal story. Carpenter animates decades-old black-and-white photographs, illustrations, and maps, adding to these a few laconic caption-sized texts to extend an exploration of "place" that digital space evokes." -- from <em> Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1 </em> <br><br>"Why do we trust our memories but doubt our doubts?&nbsp;<em>The Cape</em>&nbsp;conflates fact and fiction. Cape Cod is a real place, but the events and characters of&nbsp;<em>The Cape</em>&nbsp;are mostly made up. The diagrams are not to scale. The maps are accurate, but out of date. I didn't take any of the photographs and anyway, they have all been retouched. . . . There are no special instructions or requirements for viewing this piece, except for possibly: Don't believe everything you read." -- from "Author Description" in <em>Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1 </em>
PY - 2005
LA - English
M3 - Hypertext, Fiction, Place-Based
UR - https://the-next.eliterature.org/works/627/0/0/
DB - The NEXT
Y2 - 2025-04-03
ER -