Super Atari Poetry, 2005

3 Atari 2600, Cartridges, Joysticks, TVs
 

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)