Birds Still Warm from Flying • 2010

Birds Still Warm from Flying consists of interactive poetry cubes allowing multi-linear/dimensional play and reconfiguration. One possible reading is as 3-dimensional concrete poetry sculpture generator. The cube interface allows the reader to move the interface in 3-dimesional space, with the all elements placed on the cube transforming in proportion to the cube’s movement, perspective and warping is reasonably maintained as the cube is moved. Furthermore, each of the rows and columns can be moved to further recreate the placement and graphical nature of the poem. Each of the sides of the poem are colour coded to give the reader a reference point for the initial configuration of the interface, so changes become more apparent.

Published & exhibited

Smith, Hazel. 2012."Creative writing and new media" in The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing,
pp.102-117. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Select documentation

Elmcip entry: https://elmcip.net/node/6452

French article about my work, https://archive.nt2.uqam.ca/nt2-3/en/repertoire/birds-still-warm-flying.html ,
NT2 Laboratory, Département d'études littéraires of the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Playable version: https://flashmuseum.org/birds-still-warm-from-flying/