Challenge 1 (call for participation)

As per the guidelines in the previous post, we are soliciting submissions in any media that are, even tangentially,  related to themes addressed in this blog. However, wide open calls are often harder to submit to than calls with stringent constraints on what can be submitted.  (Textual constraints are a major part of the Oulipo literary movement, and were also used in writing the original NFE texts.)

So we offer this specific challenge:  Look at the lists of Erewhon keywords (some are actually phrases) and choose one list.  Then make a piece of media (text, image, video, animation, sound, interactive multimedia or even old style media such as painting or embroidery) that uses your whole list of keywords.  You can be strict about this and use the exact keywords in a text, or be looser and allow them to be altered or replace by something they evoke.  The piece does not need to contain text at all.  The keywords may be represented by images or sounds or some more indirect manner.

The results will be posted on the blog and possibly subjected to further remixing.

30 October 2009