"Entre Ville is J.R. Carpenter's affectionate and keenly perceptive homage to her former Montréal neighborhood, Mile End, and its many inhabitants. With poetic text framed by videos documenting the texture and sounds of the back alleyways, Entre Ville is a richly layered and sensorial exploration of the entre ville, the interior city. Some of the visuals are superimposed upon maps of her neighborhood, the flattened, putatively objective Cartesian view of space punctured by the subjective eye of the handheld camera, its unsmoothed movements suggesting a perspective from/of the streets. The heart of the piece, though, concerns the relations between (entre) neighbors, what Carpenter names as 'an intimacy born of proximity.'" -- from Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2
Experiencing the Work
Visitors may access different parts of the poem by clicking on different images on the index page. Navigation usually requires cursor movement and clicking, and the majority of the work cannot be accessed with keyboard or other similar non-mouse controls. The work frequently opens new windows, which may begin playing video or feature other content. Some text is formatted as images and cannot be accessed by screen reading software or similar tools. The same is true for the “Sniffing for Stories” section, which loads into the table on the index page (rather than its own separate window). Most of the content of the work uses sans serif fonts with a little serif font (Courier) for “Down the Garden Path." Links are 10px and body text may be as small as 9px, for example on the (spiral notebook) section.
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The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 2
Published in 2011 by Electronic Literature Organization.
The ELO gave this copy of the work to the Electronic Literature Lab in 2018.
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