RM - Week 6 "Bring it to the Table"

Learning about interactive poetry was super fascinating, as I have never learned about it before! I learned the difference between interactive poetry, poetry requiring interaction, and kinetic poetry, poetry featuring animated text or motion. There is also generative poetry which is what Taroko Gorge is! In this chapter Rettberg also touches upon the history of certain digital poetry forms and where they got their roots which was super interesting. 

All of this week's E-Lit pieces were pretty cool. I think my favorite of the bunch was Janis 7 Ingrid Ankerson's "dear e.e." I liked the interactivity of this one and the complex message it was portraying. The "wake up" and "sleep" buttons were what made it for me! It liked this one cause I feel like I had the best attempt (out of the 3) of understanding what it was about. In the white darkness took me a while to figure out because I didn't realize I had to click things lol, but once I got it it was cool too! I liked how "clean" it was format wise. Cruising was cool too but the words went too fast cause it was hard to control and it gave me a headache.

I explored Anemic Cinema by Marcel Duchamp. "The juxtaposition of hypnotic kinetic drawings and the spiraling texts reinforces the material relationship between image and text." (-Rettberg in the book). Anemic Cinema is pretty interesting, and a bit hypnotic. It was satirical and humorous while also being a statement piece of e-lit. I found that the words in the title are both an anagram and a "near" palindrome! How fun.