A.Land is an online DHTML project in which users move through fragments of texts and images: both original and borrowed from sources as diverse as Heraclitus to Katherine Hayles presented via 'portholes of perception'. These portholes were inspired from Rackham's journeys on Baltic ferries, in which seemingly limited views can generate multiple material and immaterial 'worlds'. The work assembles a poetic hypertext narrative via user selecting java coded sequences which recur throughout the virtual worlds of the work. Description from Artist's notes
Artist Statement A.Land is a journey thru fragments of memory - internal and external landscapes that are common to us all. Inspired by ferry trips on the Baltic Sea, it is a glimpse of life from our cabin aboard a cruise ship on the seas of the www. A.Land offers gentle views through differing portholes of perception on love, longing, space, and time. aland's cyclic, poetic and immersive narrative maps both our internal and external environments via fragments of literature, 19th century paintings and partially recalled events. the purpose of a.land is to identify and reflect upon the physcological, geographical and virtual stratas which both visibly and invisibly connect us - where ever we happen to be physically located.
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