This suite of 26 pieces evoke the Lettriste tradition in the digital age, an age in which the letter is freed from its statuesque status in the page to dance with its reader on the screen. Cho’s work is as elegant in its simplicity as the characters on the screen are full of character. Each poem knows where the reader’s pointer is located and responds by moving, stretching, sliding, bending, and much more towards that location. Dance with these letters, and you’ll understand why Philippe Bootz says that the cursor is the reader’s symbolic presence in the text and animation is the author’s…
Featured in Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2.
