Abstract
Dolphins in the Reservoir is an interactive and recombinant work that employs moving images, text, and sound. It envisages a society stretching into the future through fragmented and transitory evocations of what our society is like now and how we might understand it. It confronts the many social challenges (climate, disease, authoritarianism and technological change) we face through the subjective, contradictory and often uncanny experiences of individuals. Saturated with media, the individual experiences a multimodal montage of the imaginal and the mundane, the institutional and the vernacular, the dystopian and utopian–discourses over which they have limited control. The interface, a programmed montage of media elements, evokes a murky, liminal realm. The piece is structured in six distinct cycles, which repeat with considerable variation. Users can either drive the piece with clicks or use the autoplay facility. In either case, they can click and drag to rearrange elements in each cycle.
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | U.S. |
Publisher | The New River: A Journal of Digital Art and Literature |
Size | multimedia work |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |