Tokyo Garage

"Scott Rettberg b. 1970 is Professor of Digital Culture in the Department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway." 

"This is the first remix of Taroko Gorge and it was made as a kind of public inside joke meant for Nick Montfort to appreciate. This remix inverts the nature poem in which a limited set of natural elements are endlessly recombined, by more than doubling the dataset with urban and human elements. By changing the dataset for Montfort's poem, renaming it Tokyo Garage, crossing out Nick Montfort's name while linking to the original poem, and adding his own name underneath, Rettberg opened a door to remixing the poem, and established two traditions: wordplay based on the original title, and listing (yet striking out) previous remixers. Interestingly enough, several of the remixes that followed were based on Tokyo Garage, rather than on Montfort's original poem. Read this poem to experience an endless dérive through an imagined Tokyo." -- from Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3