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"Genius"
Thomas Swiss, with Skye Giordano thomas.swiss@drake.edu Drake University and Technisonic Studios |
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| "Genius" is a Web-based poem,
incorporating multimedia design and images, text-based poetry, sounds
and sounded language. It means to represent a fragmented/mediated moment
in a character's life. And to suggest -- with some reservation and confusion
about the boundaries of this statement-- that there are hierachies of
pain. In this piece, that is, the woman's young son is in pain of some
kind and the woman herself experiences the emotional pain of aging, boredom,
responsibility and obligation. Nevertheless, "you don't have to
be a genius" (in the language of this piece) to see that she has it "good"
relative to the lives of those she sees and is ultimately irritated by
on televison.
Tech Notes on Composition of the piece: Macromedia Flash 5, Adobe Photoshop 6/Imageready 3, Adobe Illustrator 9, Macromedia SoundEdit 16, Cinnamon Hazelnut Coffee from Khaldi's St. Louis |
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