Lover Texts

From Rhizome Artbase
Bret Nicely
2001
Description

Lover Texts addresses the oldest of subjects—love and want—through a series of text-based Flash animations.

Bret Nicely
11 November 2001
Rhizome staff

The Lover Texts are an attempt at distilling the essence of poetics to a basic, entertaining, and graphic form. Similar to Concrete Poetry, but utilizing animation for the internet and catering to attention spans on the internet, the Lover Texts address the oldest of subjects: Love and Want.

Bret Nicely
11 November 2001
Legacy descriptive tags
Bret Nicely, Free Williamsburg
Attribution: Bret Nicely
Narrative, Conceptual, allegory, social space, nostalgia, language, desire, body, Animation, HTML, Flash, Visual, Text
Attribution: Rhizome staff
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2001
Bret Nicely
static files
11 November 2001
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Rhizome staff