"The Cape 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 Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1
"Why do we trust our memories but doubt our doubts? The Cape conflates fact and fiction. Cape Cod is a real place, but the events and characters of The Cape 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 The maps are accurate, but out of date.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 Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1
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The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1
Published in 2006 by Electronic Literature Organization.
The ELO gave this copy of the work to the Electronic Literature Lab in 2018.
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Anthology