Vniverse
Developed with Stephanie Strickland, V: Vniverse is a textual instrument for exploring a sequence of poems that also appear in a double invertible book. The poem thus exists in the virtual space between book/s and screen. Dedicated to Simone Weil, the poem is written from the perspective of women’s knowledge from the Ice to the Information Age. Navigation/performance possibilities provide a micro-texture of interplay between patterns and their activation, both within the alphabetic forms and in relation to the diagrammed constellations.
Programmed all in its original frame, the piece gives the illusion of words moving directly in and out of the sky. Thus all the time resources of the piece go toward responsiveness and production of language, rather than visual display. Here space is fashioned to amplify the sense of resonance that internal timings create. The play-read process is iterative and the iterated returns overwhelm individual differences in sampling.