“I am buried here. You can resurrect me, but only piecemeal. If you want to see the whole, you will have to sew me together yourself.” -Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl Hypertext, the nonlinear form of digital text that allows a user to choose their own pathway among multiple interconnected elements, was…
Nicole Brunel’s Pain Index takes us back to the early days of hyperlinked artwork. With a similar format to Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson and Mouchette by Martine Neddam, The Pain Index is a labyrinth of links that guide the viewer through a swirl of fiction, history, and theory about the oppression…
“i am your girlfriend” – a performance piece by Columbia undergrad Hari Nef – is dizzying in its ambition. The first time I watched the lip-synced, 21-minute monologue, I cried. I was sitting in my on-campus apartment; it was just past three and I was still more stoned than tired. As…