FR CityFish

FR J.R. Carpenter

FR 2010

FR Anglais

FR « CityFish » est une œuvre présentée comme une page web défilant à l'horizontal (vers la droite). Sur un fond d'écran blanc et bleu (division horizontale, le blanc est en haut et le bleu en bas), l'artiste présente des textes, des photographies, des vidéos et des illustrations dans le but de créer une histoire, celle de Lynne, une jeune femme de la Nouvelle-Écosse qui visite New York. Le lecteur lit donc l'œuvre en faisant défiler la page vers la droite jusqu'à ce qu'il se rende à la fin du texte. Une carte de New York avec des étoiles menant à des vidéo des endroits est aussi disponible sur l'œuvre.

http://luckysoap.com/cityfish/

FR « CityFish is a hybrid word, title of a hybrid work, tale of a hybrid creature. Part classical parable, part children’s picture book, CityFish is a web-based intertextual hypermedia transmutation of Aesop’s Town Mouse Country Mouse fable. Winters, a Canadian girl named Lynne freezes in Celsius in the fishing village of Brooklyn, Nova Scotia (Canada), a few minutes walk from a white sandy beach. Summers, she suffers her city cousins sweltering in Fahrenheit in Queens, New York (USA). By now Lynne knows everyone knows it’s supposed to be the other way around. Lynne is a fish out of water. In the country, her knowledge of the city separates her from her school of friends. In the city, her foreignness marks her as exotic. Meanwhile, the real city fish lie in scaly heaps on long ice-packed tables in hot and narrow Chinatown streets. CityFish represents asynchronous relationships between people, places, perspectives and times through a horizontally scrolling browser window, suggestive of a panorama, a diorama, a horizon line, a skyline, a timeline, a Torah scroll. The panorama and the diorama have traditionally been used in museums and landscape photography to establish hierarchies of value and meaning. CityFish interrupts a seemingly linear narrative with poetic texts, quotations, Quicktime videos, DHTML animations, Google Maps and a myriad of visual images. Combining contemporary short fiction and hypermedia storytelling forms creates a new hybrid, a lo-fi web collage cabinet of curiosities. The story of Lynne and the city fish unfolds in this strange horizontally scrolling world of absences and empty spaces – furious, intimate, and surreal.

There is a Google Map satellite view of Coney Island embed in CityFish, which - for now - shows the beach, boardwalk, amusement park, and bordering neighbourhoods in pristine condition. Coney Island was but one of the many coastal communities in the tri-state area hard hit by Superstorm Sandy in October 2012. Eventually the Google Maps satellite view will be updated to reflect the effect of climate change on this coastline, but the new images will reveal little of the loss experienced by these communities. My thoughts are with these families.
JRC November 2012

CityFish is a work of fiction, I swear. Any resemblance to real-life mothers, uncles, aunts or cousins anywhere may be attributed to the common craziness of all families everywhere. »

Mention de genre autodéclarée : « Part classical parable, part children’s picture book, CityFish is a web-based intertextual hypermedia transmutation of Aesop’s Town Mouse Country Mouse fable »

Navigation linéaire

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Défilement horizontal

Géolocalisation

Page web

Conte

Fable

FR Voyage

New York

Nouvelle-Écosse

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Ordinateur

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Son

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HTML/CSS

FR « That Lynne lived up the road from a fishing village called Brooklyn, that was not the real Brooklyn, was a sad fact the Flushing cousins would never let Lynne live down. How far away is it? They taunted. Farther than Far Rockaway? It's farther than Fulton Street, where the Chinatown fish comes from. It's farther than you can see from the torch arm of the Statue of Liberty. Lynne and her mother lived up the hill from the far edge of a raw grey ocean that spread out for days and days. »

Articles de presse :

Unlikely Story Episode IV.

Leonardo Flores pour I Love E-Poetry, « “CityFish” by J. R. Carpenter », publié le 28 juillet 2012.

Illya Szilak pour HuffPost, « Reorienting Narrative: E-lit as Psychogeography », publié le 11 juin 2013.

Kate Taylor pour le Globe and Mail, « Digital lit: How new ways to read mean new ways to write », publié le 9 juillet 2011.

Articles scientifiques ou livre :

soundsrite, A journal of online sound and writing University of Western Sydney, Australia Volume 3, April 2011.

Mentionné dans le travail final d'un étudiant, Jarid Schoelein, pour le cours Electronic Literature DTC 338 | Will Luers | CMDC @ Washington State University, « Final Project: “Drive” ».

Janis Jefferies, Sarah Kember, « Whose Book is it Anyway? A View From Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity », Open Book Publishers, 2019, chapitre 10.

Liens vers d'autres bases de données ou répertoires d'œuvres numériques :

NT2

ELMCIP

CELL

Autres :

Page du blog Goodreads de l'autrice.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109713966

FR Aude Meunier-Rochon