Leif Codices (2002/2003)
Leif Codices si articola in due sezioni: ‘Landscape’ e ‘Library’.
Cliccando su ‘Landscape’, lo spettatore attiva una serie
di animazioni dislocate su diversi browser. Il contenuto narrativo
fornisce l’anello di raccordo tra le finestre dei browsers, che
mostrano diversi elementi appartenenti alla stessa animazione, oppure
micro-narrazioni a se stanti che si susseguono confluendo in un’unica
macro-narrazione. L’intervento dello spettatore è essenziale
all’interno della narrazione: interagendo con l’opera,
infatti, egli fornisce l’elemento propulsore che attiva i browser
e innesca l’apertura a catena delle finestre i cui vengono visualizzate
le animazioni.
Cliccando su ‘Library’, si accede a una raccolta
di e-Books:
Pollen Connection Point, Border Patrol, Party
Turnstile, Conflict Mountain,
O[c|k]tober, Road Works e Equilibrium Panel,
che possono essere scaricate e visualizzate offline in un momento
successivo (tranne O[c|k]tober,
che costituisce un diario online di immagini tratte da siti web aggiornati
quotidianamente dall’artista).
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Project Description
Leif Codices consists of two sections ‘Landscape’ and ‘Library’: ‘Landscape’ takes
the viewer through a sequence of online-animations which employ
fragmented browser display and user activation as their main
formal feature.
‘Library’, is a container for a series of artist eBooks:
Pollen Connection Point, Border Patrol, Party Turnstile, Conflict
Mountain,
O[c|k]tober, Road Works and Equilibrium Panel. With the exception
of O[c|k]tober - an online diary of images collected from daily
updated websites and linked to news-sites across the world
- these books are available for download and off-line viewing.
Their often
complex structures merge abstract form and literal images in
an idiosyncratic investigation into possible meanings of landscape,
from the personally obscure to the politically obvious.
The eBooks are both linear and non-linear structures: the user
can simply use the arrow-buttons on the keyboard to browse
through the books, or discover hidden links within the pages
to move through
them. Pollen Connection Point, Border Patrol, Party
Turnstile and Road Works also contain
sub-books and parallel-books for the user
to discover, whereas Conflict Mountain and Equilibrium
Panel only have one image sequence. Each work employs pdf technology
with
javascript to create a new form of electronic book (or book
in general), that can also be printed out as a picture series.
Each,
with the exception of O[c|k]tober, is a self contained,
computer-based work of art. O[c|k]tober displays images
in small individual browser-windows that provide links to the
contemporary world
of news information:
the main source of literal imagery throughout Leif Codices.
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Leif Codices consists of two sections ‘Landscape’ and ‘Library’:
‘Landscape’ takes the viewer through a sequence of online-animations
which employ fragmented browser display and user activation as their main
formal feature. The spectator’s intervention is crucial in order
to trigger to opening of the browser windows where the animations are visualized.
‘Library’, is a container for a series of artist eBooks: Pollen
Connection Point, Border Patrol, Party Turnstile, Conflict
Mountain, O[c|k]tober,
Road Works and Equilibrium Panel. With the exception of O[c|k]tober -
an online diary of images collected from daily updated websites and linked
to news-sites across the world - these books are available for download
and off-line viewing.
Their often complex structures merge abstract form
and literal images in an idiosyncratic investigation into possible
meanings of landscape, from the personally obscure to the politically obvious. | 
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Production
date: 2002-2003
Software & Programming: FreeHand, Flash, Javascript, Actionscript, Html
programming of eBooks: Theodor H. Smith
other: The work was made possible through an AHRB Research Fellowship at Newcastle
University.
Technical requirements:
Browsers: best viewed on Internet Explorer 5+ (of other tested browsers, only
Netscape 6 works ok)
Plug-In: Flash5 Plug-in
Other: Javascript / Pop-up must be enabled
Connection: best viewed with broadband
eBook Reader: Acrobat Reader 5 only. Apart from Conflict Mountain and Equilibrium
Panel, they are Macintosh only. Conflict Mountain and Equilibrium Panel can also
be read in later versions of Acrobat Reader
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