The layers and juxtapositions in this piece are fascinating because this pop-up book has been inscribed by AR codes, which blur the boundaries between RL and VR. What we see is a video documenting a reading of the work, so it is a far cry from actually experiencing it, but it gives us a taste of what reading an AR book through a digital lens could be like. The juxtapositions are also conceptual: the sequential nature of journeys and books, the Andromeda myth, the speaker’s voice and life, the sea, children’s books, and now (through no fault of Fisher’s) the “release the kraken” meme.
All silliness aside, this award-winning work is richly layered and merits multiple readings to conceptualize as a whole experience and arrive at its insights.
Featured in Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2.
