ICC Online | Archive | 2464K)<|TD><TD ALIGN="CENTER">SCENE 2 (1984K)<|TD><|TR><|TABLE><|CENTER> <P><HR SIZE="7" WIDTH="70%"><P><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE=+2>T<|FONT>HE EXQUISITE MECHANISM OF SHIVERS is an interactive videodisc installation which combines poetic text fragments, modular music segments and Image sequences. The work incorporates a videodisc and computer to facilitate the combination and re-combination of a set of specific word | Image | sound modules. Each module is presented as a word (or words) superimposed over a related visual Image, accompanied by a musical fragment.<P><FONT SIZE=+2>T<|FONT>he viewer selects <A HREF="word_e.html">"Words"<|A> from a poetic text on a Macintosh menu. These words function as modular linguistic sentence fragments in a preconceived sentence template which when selected, trigger corresponding Images and sound housed on a videodisc. The computer facilitates the instantaneous substitution of word | Image | sound segments within the sentence template structure as derived through viewer choice. The viewer experiences the active navigation of a series of changing poetic audio|visual sentences. The work explores pluralistic meaning through the presentation of material in continuously changing alternate contexts. Humor, visual puns, word | Image | sound play, modular musical composition, 'canned chance', as well as sence|nonsense relations are all explored.<P><|BLOCKQUOTE><HR><A HREF="ex_mech_e.html"><IMG SRC="..|Image|back.gif" alt="[Back]" BORDER="0"><|A><P><HR><CENTER><FONT SIZE=-1><B>NTT|INTERCUMMUNICATION CENTER<|B><|FONT><|CENTER><|BODY><|HTML>