a flash movie by dane
published in the Eastgate
Reading Room
shortlisted for the 2001
Electronic Literature Poetry Award
finalist
in the 2001 Boston CyberArts
Lite Show
"Iconic visual-design features are counterpoised with more mundane magazine text-snippets referring (pro-nominally) to men. Because the snippets themselves are appropriated material, the whole collage can be read as a critique of socio-journalisticconstructions of male identity. But the greatest power of the piece resides in its truly striking graphic design elements (of which an image of two birds pecking at seed, as objective correlative for marriage, is one unforgettable instance). The viewer gets caught up in exploring (and exhausting) the trigger mechanisms for text-sequences (the mix and match effects can be very funny). In a sense, the piece reveals the
underlying limits of an instrumental freedom." Heather McHugh the judge for the 2001 ELO poetry award these were her comments about 'him' |