Authors: Jason Nelson, Anastasia Salter

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An Online Exhibition of Creative Work

Abstract

Given the global state of crisis, this year’s exhibition was migrated, and a new call was distributed for online works designed to use hypertext to drive engagement with the current challenges. The curators distributed a call for works responding to the overwhelming “climates of change,” with a particular emphasis on the ongoing environmental crisis. Thinking globally can be overwhelming: thus, this exhibition asks artists and viewers to engage with these global concerns through the lens of local and the personal. The exhibit features works that are brief and poetic; works that engage with moments and personal challenges; works that respond to local challenges and warnings for the future that is already here. The curators welcomed works positioned through the lens of the current moment; works that challenge and inspire us; and works that call out for reflection and change.

The curators particularly encouraged those submitting to draw on personal experiences or connections or understandings about climate change, the impacts, causes and effects. Pieces might also engage with how that understanding is changing every day under our growing collective challenges.

Works include:

Steve DiPaola, “Dueling Rain”

Alinta Krauth, “Prosthetics for a Changing Climate”

Mark Sample, “The Infinite Catalog of Crushed Dreams”

Rachel Donley, “I look but I can’t see”

“Alinta Krauth and Donna Davis, “Mountain Flora Plant

Science Rescue”

Samara Hayley Steele, Dargan Frierson, Mark C. Marino,

and Rob Wittig, “DESTINATION WEDDING 2070”

Alex Mitchell, “Monstrous Weathered”

Alexander Boyd, “Trail”

Patrick Jagoda, Heidi Coleman, Ashlyn Sparrow, Kristen Schilt, and Marc Downie, “Terrarium: A Climate Change Alternate Reality Game”

Stephanie Strickland, “Ancient Change-Ringing Algorithms to Remix Text on Multiple Platforms”

Gretchen Miller, “The Rescue Project”

Sophie Reid-Singer, “Response”

Yohanna Joseph Waliya, “Climatophosis”

CCS Concepts

Hypertext / hypermedia • Media arts • Computer games

Keywords

Electronic literature, hypertext fiction, interactive fiction, generative hypertext

ACM Reference format:

Jason Nelson and Anastasia Salter. 2020. Climates of Change: An Online Exhibition of Creative Work. In Proceedings of ACM Hypertext Conference (HT’20), July 13–15, 2020, Virtual Event, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3372923.3404861

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This online exhibition was cosponsored by the Electronic Literature Organization and hosted by the University of Central Florida.