This narrative 'cyberpoem' started in 1995 with the goal of developing into a lengthy 'soapie' about the life of i. The project obviously didn't go on for a long time, though the 18 webisodes plus two alternate guest webisodes collected here are a testament to an ingenious exploration of the narrative potential of animated Concrete Poetry. Each piece is an ingenious animated GIF that illustrates and comments upon a moment in the early life of a character named i. The personification of the typographical character i and the transformation of other words into objects that i explores and interacts with truly exemplifies the Noigandres group's description of Concrete Poetry as 'tension of things-words in space-time.'
Excerpt of Leonardo Flores' description, I love E-Poetry
Artist StatementThis piece is a narrative cyberpoem which i first began working on in 1995 for my cyberpoetry CD-ROMs. That version, called "reality is a construct" was created in logo-motion in 3D and ran for seven minutes. This version, because of different connection speeds, different browsers, different hosts, etc., has to be restricted to animated gifs and whatever comes packaged with Netscape 3.
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