Glide

"'Glide' is a dynamic visual language that originated in the context of the [author's] novel, The Maze Game. The materials available on the website use a strategy of multimodal means of self-presentation: narration, animation, translation, divination, game design, and appropriation of theoretical ideas that suit its purposes. Glide, at play on mutable media, modestly conceals the extravagance of its evolutionary intentions behind thin veils of noetic license.

There [were originally] several interactive sections of the website:

1) a full lexicon;

2) The Glide oracle, called The Wine of the Lilies, contains a suite of auxiliary Glide language tools: two libraries of interpretations of combinations of glyphs, one static and one dynamic, (over 2000 entries); and a rich library of graphics and music compositions;

3) the Collabyrinth, a full Glide language glyph editor. The Collabyrinth invites the user to experiment with the language by arranging glyphs, seeing how they can be linked and nested, changing their properties such as size, color, orientation, and creating animated glyphs by morphing between one glyph and another." -- ELO, State of the Arts 2002

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Riding the Meridian

Published by Riding the Meridian.

This copy was given to the Electronic Literature Lab by Jennifer Ley in Spring of 2019.

PUBLICATION TYPE

Journal

COPY MEDIA FORMAT

Web

ORIGINAL URL

http://psychedelicsandlanguage.com/the-guild/diana-slattery-glide/