slippingglimpse is a 10-part interactive regenerative Flash poem combining text with videos of ocean patterns seen along the Atlantic coast (chreods).
In a round robin of reading, the water "reads" the poem text (full-screen),
the poem text "reads" image/capture technologies (scroll-text),
and the image-capture video "reads" the water (hi-rez).
More precisely, the water reads the poem text (full-screen mode) using motion capture coding that assigns the text to locations of movement in the water;
the poem text reads image/capture technologies (scroll-text mode) by sampling and recombining words of visual artists who describe their use of digital techniques - it then explores older capture technologies, such as harvesting plants for food and flax for paper;
the image-capture video reads the water, reading for and enhancing water flow patterns (chreods) to which dynamical systems return even as they continuously change (best seen in hi-rez mode).
slippingglimpse requires the Flash player
In screens with scrolling text, click and drag the pointer to move text forward and back. Use "0" to stop it.
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Making this work has made us newly aware of commonalities in code, in poetry, and in chreods. We talk about that in our essay, "Dovetailing Details Fly Apart - All Over, Again, In Code, In Poetry, In Chreods."
http://www.slippingglimpse.org/pocode
http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/enfolded/dovetailing