Exhibited as part of "freeFall future.text - escaping or excavating platforms", with dra.ft at ELO 2021.
Katherine Yang & Steffi Che
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- Items representing themes of work
- Different rooms and floors (how to preview? prompt to inspect? y/n)
- Dungeon crawler: monsters, traps, puzzles, treasures
- Cipher poems: solve to get a reward!
- Log of actions (you entered this room, left this room, viewed this work, collected this item)
- The whole exhibition is a collective e-lit: everyone's log of actions collected at the end
- Why dungeon crawler? Player agency, reader agency
- The exhibition itself as the artwork.
- Entrance and exit
- Secret room after you have viewed all the works / collected all the items
- Final lobby displaying all the metadata (find the secret room buried in all the text! X-RAY GOGGLES -> quine)
- Similarities between a system of codes beneath the functional surface and a system of dungeons underground?
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Dungeon crawl is a type of scenario in fantasy rpg in which the hero navigates a labryinth environment.
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Origins (Greek Mythology) of the 'labryinth': Designed by the artificer Daedalus to hold the Minotaur. Daedalus himself barely escaped because it was so well made. Theseus was able to retrace his path with a ball of thread.
- Is the visitor the hero or the monster?
- Are the artists/makers of this exhibition like the artificer who barely escapes from his own labryinth?
- Can the narrative/log be likened to the thread that allowed Theseus to navigate the maze?
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Dungeons are rooms/cells in which prisoners are held, usually/generally associated with Medieval castles.
- Clash/chemistry/re-contextualisation between Medieval fantasy, Contemporary reality and Futuristic fantasy?
- i.e. What would a spell book be in the present? A dictionary? A server with stored information?
- Perhaps a wand would be a password reset tool? Or a decoder?
[poetic] tool (
gem/artefact *
- pendulum ref: https://www.instagram.com/p/BosTtvYBQsN/
- transmitter ref: https://www.instagram.com/p/BrJXbl6B1BL/
- constellation/sky chart?
scroll ?
- (inanimate?) code poem ref: https://www.instagram.com/p/B55ZhnzFYya/
- 'inertia'
wand /
- '//'
- italicise
- choice between 2 words
potion !
spell book +
- 'in_form_ation' ref (slide 2): https://www.instagram.com/p/CEolhsaFal7/
- one line scattered poem ref: https://www.instagram.com/p/B0E-nX6FV3T/
- 'eyesight examination'
ring =
- 'Autosave ring' ref (slide 1): https://www.instagram.com/p/CEolhsaFal7/
Armour [
- '[ Stage directions'
- [ Staples?
http://www.generative-gestaltung.de/2/
- https://www.google.com/search?q=nethack&rlz=1C5CHFA_enHK895HK895&sxsrf=ALeKk00x18XK2MnETbQJNuQ33GxvyEzwgA:1621068113996&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjZl92opcvwAhW5IqYKHfWvAA8Q_AUoAXoECAIQBA&biw=1792&bih=1018
- http://www.katygero.com/poetry-experiments/
- https://products.minguhongmfg.com/river-typography/
- http://the-flow-of-time.glitch.me/
- https://blackout-poetry-tool.github.io/
- https://secretsecret.glitch.me/
- https://www.nethack.org/common/index.html
- https://inverse.website
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained_writing
- https://thefutureofmemory.online/hanzi-maker/
- http://faculty.ndhu.edu.tw/~chenli/visualpoems.htmq=nethack&rlz=1C5CHFA_enHK895HK895&sxsrf=ALeKk00x18XK2MnETbQJNuQ33GxvyEzwgA:1621068113996&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjZl92opcvwAhW5IqYKHfWvAA8Q_AUoAXoECAIQBA&biw=1792&bih=1018