open.ended - A spatial poetry installation by Aya Karpinska and Daniel Canazon Howe

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Curatorial Statement	Hymns of the drowning swimmer	open.ended	Motiontext ferment	Trustfiles

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open.ended by Aya Karpinska and Daniel Canazon Howe

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Aya Karpinska Digital Media Artist 17 W. 54th Street #8D New York United States of America http://www.technekai.com/open Daniel Canazon Howe Media Research Lab 215 Thompson Street #4 New York, NY 10012 United States of America http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe *Keywords* Digital poetry, Electronic writing, 3D text, Interactive, Multimedia, Poetry, E-text		View of poem as the two cubes rotate

Touchscreen version installed at Compact-Impact in New York		open.ended is designed to reveal itself through continually shifting geometric surfaces. Verses appear on the faces of two separate, translucent cubes nested within one another. To experience the work, the reader manipulates a joystick or touch-screen to rotate the cubes, bringing stanzas on different surfaces into view. As cubes, faces, and layers are manipulated by the reader, dynamically updating lines move in and out of focus. The structure of the poem allows it to be read in any number of ways; from single verses on cube faces, to sequential verses across faces, to juxtapositions of verses across multiple cubes. Order is deliberately ambiguous, allowing for shared lines across geometric surfaces and encouraging multiple readings. An audio recording of the two authors reading the poem plays softly. Like the motion of the cubes, at times only one voice is heard, moments later the two whispered voices meld and overlap. Text and audio fragments combine to form an immersive collection of micro-moments. Meaning is constructed actively as reader, author and mediated work come together.

Unlike works that employ digital and networked media simply as effective distribution mechanisms, open.ended attempts to leverage the specific affordances of the medium. Using real-time 3D rendering and dynamically recombinant text, open.ended invites the reader to reconsider the very experience of reading. Meaning is generated collaboratively as the reader works through the poem and lines of verse appear, vanish, and combine. New potential for juxtaposition, association, and layered meaning are enabled via real-time interaction, which becomes a primary component of the poetic experience. Click here to view Java-Webstart version of open.ended

*Artist Biographies* Aya Karpinska Aya Karpinska is an artist whose work and play focuses on using digital media to extend and enhance interactions in physical and virtual spaces. Her diverse output includes installation art, computer music, digital poetry, graphic design, and game design. Her three-dimensional poetry has been featured in international festivals and conferences, most recently at the Bushwick Art Projects festival in New York City. She received her Master’s degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University (NYU), and currently works as an interaction designer in New York City. Daniel Canazon Howe Daniel Canazon Howe is a digital media artist and researcher at NYU's Media Research Lab. His interests include generative systems for artistic practice and social aspects of technology design. Current projects include ALTK, a toolkit for affective language generation; RAPUNSEL, a networked game environment designed to foster code literacy in children; and Values-In-Design, a developing methodology for integrating social values in technical systems design. In addition to a background in creative writing, Daniel has Master’s degrees in both Computer Science and Interactive Media, as well as over 10 years experience as a software developer, educator, and artist. He is this year’s recipient of the Brown Fellowship for Electronic Writing. Citation reference for this Leonardo Electronic Almanac Gallery Statement MLA Style Karpinska, Aya and Howe, Daniel Canazon. "open.ended." "New Media Poetry and Poetics" Special Issue, Gallery, Leonardo Electronic Almanac Vol 14, No. 5 - 6 (2006). 25 Sep. 2006 <http://leoalmanac.org/gallery/newmediap/open.htm>. APA Style Karpinska, A and Howe, D. C. (Sep. 2006) "open.ended," "New Media Poetry and Poetics" Special Issue, Gallery, Leonardo Electronic Almanac Vol 14, No. 5 - 6 (2006). Retrieved 25 Sep. 2006 from <http://leoalmanac.org/gallery/newmediap/open.htm>.
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