Take Ogre is Irish Digital Poet John Pat McNamara's version of Nick Montfort's seminal work. It is his plea for the removal of his more primitive human nature as he seeks to understand his own creative relationship with technology. Take Ogre is just one of forty digital poems that constitute the broader digital narrative to be found at http://www.digitalvitalism.com
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In John Pat McNamara’s remix of Nick Montfort’s Taroko Gorge, the gorge becomes an ogre, a shadow self haunting a fantasy-driven reinterpretation. The work holds many echoes of classic medieval high fantasy as well as of Dungeons and Dragons, with nouns including player, knight, queen, magician, sage, banshee, and, of course, ogre. The background of the piece invites us to contemplate the creative process, depicting a cluttered work desk filled with papers, books, and disks in front of a window at night. A laptop is prominently featured and displays only the same picture of the desk, echoing forward through infinite repetitions of the screen-within-a-screen.
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