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Text by David Lloyd, Design and Programming by Erik Loyer September 2005 Launch Project |
An interactive essay about historical metaphors and metonyms for the Irish in which the non-linear aspects of the essay’s content are visualized as a virtual potato field whose root structure users can navigate at will. A collaboration with scholar David Lloyd.
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1. Lloyd’s essay has been divided into discreet chunks--represented here as potatoes--through which multiple threads of meaning and argument intersect. |
2. Clicking on a potato brings up its associated text, along with interface for navigating along the various interwoven threads of the work. | |
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3. By expanding the reader interface, the user reveals non-linear connections between themes, keywords, and works referenced in the piece. |
4. The “underground” area contains archival imagery which illustrates Lloyd’s points about common stereotypes of the Irish. |
