electronic signboard

This kinetic visual poem by a pioneer in electronic literature was initially written in 1982 to be displayed in electronic signboards and video monitors.The more recent Flash version replicates the signboard nicely, allowing each word to fit in the screen as it scrolls from right to left, the conventional way such signboards deliver texts for ease of reading. Kac doesn’t want to make things easy, though, because the words don’t make sense when you read them, even if you know Portuguese. Here’s the complete text of the poem from Kac’s website.

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