"Ottar Ormstad (poetry, photos, production) was born and is based as an independent artist in Oslo, Norway."
"This videopoem from a Norwegian concrete poet Ottar Ormstad takes on the subject of vehicular waste and its impact on nature. The images of abandoned cars in a forest and a dramatic musical score set an anxious tone, against which Ormstad sequences, juxtaposes, and superposes static, scheduled, and kinetic texts. In true verbivocovisual tradition, the letter-carpets he layers on the video are legible in multiple languages, but also pictorial, creating meaningful images, animations, and textures. For best appreciation, we recommend experiencing When as an immersive experience." -- from Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3
C3 - Web PY - 2009 LA - English, French, German, Norwegian, Spanish M3 - Multimedia, Poetry, Video UR - https://the-next.eliterature.org/works/832/0/0/ DB - The NEXT Y2 - 2025-04-02 ER -