Speaking Clock

Tags:
interactivetime-basedgenerativepoetry
Description (in English):

A HyperCard stack that generates poetry (from an existing list of terms) based on the computer's internal time.  In addition to a static text around the edges of the clock (which can cycle with clicking), a dynamically-generated text appears in the center.

For more technical and literary information, please see Christopher Funkhouser's analysis at: arts.brunel.ac.uk/gate/entertext/5_3/ET53FunkhouserEd.doc

Research Collection that references this work:

Title
Electronic Literature, Chapter 5: Kinetic and Interactive Poetry
The Importance of the Term of Narratology in Electronic Literature

Critical writing that references this work:

TitleAuthorYear
Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995Chris Funkhouser2007
Digital Poetics: The Making of E-PoetriesLoss Pequeño Glazier2001
Approaches to Digital Literature: Temporal Dynamics and Cyborg AuthorsRaine Koskimaa2010
Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary TheoryMarkku Eskelinen2012
Travels in Cybertextuality. The Challenge of Ergodic Literature and Ludology to Literary TheoryMarkku Eskelinen2009
Aporia and Epiphany in Doom and The Speaking ClockEspen Aarseth1999
Genre Trouble: Narrativism and the Art of SimulationEspen Aarseth2004
Electronic LiteratureScott Rettberg2014
Beyond Codexspace: Potentialities of Literary CybertextJohn Cayley1996
Screen shots:
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