Meaning-making textual effects

Use any variety of textual effects (fonts, colors, animation, web widgets, handwriting/drawing, etc) in a way which alters and enhances the meaning(s) of the text itself. That is, if the words move, there must be a reason for them to be doing so; if they are shaped/colored/otherwise manipulated, it must be purposeful. Don't worry about others "getting" your meaning; the making of meaning is just as much the reader's/viewer's activity as it is yours. Your purpose is to create a textual effect which allows meaning to be created.

The text can be any length, from a single word to several sentences / lines.

 

Effects from class sessions

Refresh meta tag
Author meta tag
Undecorated links (no underlining)

 

Javascript open-window
Open in new window (target_blank)
Java applets

 

Models

Jim Andrews Vispo page (Flash and DHTML)

UbuWeb visual and concrete poetry
in particular, Michael Basinski (pen, paper, collage)

Poems That Go

Two java poems: fear and flower

 

 


 
© lesley smith and dean taciuch
fall 2002
new century college & the department of english
in the
college of arts and sciences
george mason university
last updated: 11 Nov 2002