aug 6 1991
Text, Design and Programming by Erik Loyer
1996
aug 6 1991 is an interactive CD-ROM in which users experience a poem from the “inside out,” by exploring a cyclic web of links between the images, sounds, symbols, and themes the poem evokes.
L.A. Freewaves Festival 5th Celebration of Experimental Media Arts
Images
The “Browser” area allows users to playfully remix the raw elements from a given stanza of the poem—images, symbols, and pictographs.
Images and video from the locations described in the poem are used to provide users with a sense of context before reading a given stanza.
The “Pictograph” area combines graphics inspired by the poem’s symbols, media and text to create a pictographic representation of a line.
The appearance of the text is the final step in the cyclical navigation structure of the piece.