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Super Atari Poetry is a
multiplayer game installation consisting of 3 Atari 2600 consoles, 3 joysticks,
3 self-manufactured cartridges, and 3 old (fake wood) 19" tvs.
Each cartridge contains a group of verses that are constantly changing colors
which can be manipulated using a joystick. In this way, the audience can either
freeze/move the colors or just move forward and backward the sentences. The
reading of the 3 verses printed on the screens produces an interactive and
coherent poem that's always changing its meaning and chromatic structure. With
Super Atari Poetry, players can make about 1000 different poems.
This work follows a non-lineal narrative system present in previous works such
as The Poetic Clock, 1997; The Poetic Machine, 1998 and
Poetic Dialogues, 2000-05.
Super Atari Poetry is also attached to an exploration based in Atari 2600
consoles that I started in 1985 and has precedents in works like net@ari,
1985; the Atari Poetry series, 2000-2005; and Justicia, 2003
(all the mentioned projects can be seen at
http://art.cibernetic.com)
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