Name you'd like to be published under, if accepted
lynchpoet
Short bio, written in the third person
lynchpoet/rudy is a hick from Malone NY who designs games, writes poetry and gets destroyed by 14-year-olds on League of Legends. when not doing any of those things, lynchpoet collects a disability check and works with friend, William, running Misery Tourism, a site that publishes outsider art.
Artist Statement, about your piece
Creation of poetry is a compulsion for me, and it sometimes (daily) overlaps with my other compulsion of generating supervillain concepts. I'd like to think my process is a good one: I come up with the name first, then extrapolate powers, identity, ideology, etc from that. It's simple: we name the Batman.
This poem about "General Assembly"—a dictator whose scheme is replacing Sub-Saharan Africa's people, cultures, and wildlife with replica nanomachines (then, uhh, profit?)—mostly deals with detached observation. The player has no active role except scrolling, which I think mimics the Zero's Journey a lot of us in the West take whenever we read through international headlines. There are, arguably, some consequences to the passive consumption of world tears (the microorganisms and nanomachines that follow your mouse only to be eaten by the General's arbitrary ethical calculus are a representation of all the adclicks, one-tweet political awakenings, and watercooler asides), but the process for many of us is: scroll scroll scroll, briefly stare at some horrific shit, make sense of it (or, more often, don't). Visually, this piece is a mindcastle for a lunatic where, as the physical space represented gets smaller, the concepts get more grandiose. All the while the reader gets... older [sleepier, hungrier, have-to-piss-er]? The fact that the text can be scrolled through endlessly with largely similar results, well, you know.
What do you need from us, when giving feedback on your piece?
I'm wondering if the scrolling pacing is right. There are parts where wide open spaces are meant to taunt the reader (specifically the "technology zooms ahead" section), but I don't know if these are too prominent or distracting.
Questions, Comments, Concerns?
This is awesome. Please do more than one of these.
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