A collaborative new language for poems, invented by visitors to Now Play This and A MAZE. / Berlin
A chance to create a universal, collaborative, chaotic glyph language for making poetry. Participants add their own new abstract glyphs to an ever-expanding database, write their own poems in the collective glyph language, and view other poems. A hand-picked collaboration between Harry Josephine Giles (UK) and bleeptrack (DE), co-commissioned with London based festival Now Play This. The glyph dictionary and poems will be added to and shared by visitors to both festivals. Now Play This is a festival of experimental game design running at Somerset House in London from 6-14 April 2019, showcasing interactive and playful work as part of the London Games Festival. They show digital and physical work that has play at its heart. In 2019, Now Play This is themed around community and communities: games which portray particular communities, communities which come together around making games, even games that create communities around them.
Harry Josephine Giles is from Orkney, Scotland, and is a writer and performer. They have lived on four islands, each larger than the last. Their work generally happens in the crunchy places where performance and politics get muddled up. bleeptrack is a computer scientist from Germany who makes generative art, games, videos, podcasts, and many other things.
@harrygiles @bleeptrack