Books of Sand

Sites that provide programming language a literary appraisal, without relapsing into the mystification of technique or into the dangerous celebration of the machine’s beauty. Creations that confer a narrative character to poems without flirting with the Epics. Works that resort to videographic procedures in literary construction and play on the passivity and participation of the spectator and the reader. Non-linear narratives, which reconfigure the literature/book relationship starting from the very notion of a volume.

truth is a moving target by eddie redl
Truths impose themselves in verticals and horizontals. Meanings mingle, changing the order of convictions. Extremely beautiful.

WIIL-N-TESTAMENT by olia lialina
Cyber writer disposes of her work. The heir to her will ends up being you, receiver of a online literature pearl. More by Olia Lialina.

No Memory by Valéry Brancher.
Contemporary affection in check in this lively ballad about love and un-love.

When the child was a child by Conor McGarrigle
One episode of the Play-lets series, a group of mini-series mixing ideas by the psychologist August Klein and the artist Arthur Doyle’s memoirs.

After Emmet by Miekal And
With three-phrase grids, formed by three-letter words, each of different fonts, Miekal And builds a hypnotic trip in fifty-three screens.

Je sui ton ami(e)... tu peux me dire tes secrets
An urban intervention with online interface that has been, for two years, making of the net of repressions in which we live a problem, giving body to the text of our silences.

e v i d e n c e by Maya Drozdz
A follower of Calvino who tries to build a encyclopaedic narrative. Here, a collection of small object operating as a treasure map.The trail of a never-told story.

codex series - beyond narrative
Four pieces created especially for CD-ROM. Attent to "heteropy", by Matt and Mark Owen, from Volumeone.

Grammatron by Mark Amerika
Cyberculture critic and curator, editor of e-zine Alt X and author of Telepolis’ column Amerika On Line, Amerika is also a lecturer at Brown University notorious author.  more  (see also connections)

That's what keeps me down
Frenetically drag your mouse on the window to the left of you and shuffle the images of Steve McQueen, Sid Vicious, Che Guevara. Submerge in post-macho icons.


Holo-X by Mark Amerika
If there is a place for post-macho, there is also one for post-female. S.L.U.T., a little doll conceived for navigation in VR, is an anchor for a stroll amongst countless Jennifers.

war
A kind of A Farwell to Arms revisited. First literary work of impact by Russian olia lialina, it deals with a relationship of post-war amorous meeting again/failing to meet B&W and beautiful.

anna karenin.  by   olia lialina
ana karenina’s train trip to Paradise. An itinerary made by search engines, where the key-word excludes senses

We May Think by Vannevar Bush (1945)