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"This is a generative poem you can visit for years and continue to find things to surprise and delight. It is structured around a text — aptly named as 'a strand' (as in a fiber or rope made of letters or characters) — which is shaped by 'aspects,' which are programmed structures that shape and transform the strands through color, animation, scheduling, formatting, and other transformations possible in DHTML. Considering there are 10 'strands' (plus a 'user-fed strand') each of which can be shaped by 36 different 'aspects,' each of which can have multiple controls and toggles, you don't have to do the math to realize that this is a work of staggering generative possibilities. Combined with a few randomization and combinatorial touches, this is a work that will always welcome you with fresh moments, inviting you to play with its structures." -- from Leonardo Flores, I Love E-Poetry

"I put together a twenty minute video talking about a fantastic piece of digital poetry by Joe Keenan from the late nineties called MOMENT. . . MOMENT, written in JavaScript for browsers, is a work of visual interactive code poetry. It’s one of the great unacknowledged works for the net."  -- from Jim Andrews, netartery.vispo.com, June 23, 2012 [See Related Links for a link to this video.]