The New River

Journal of Electronic Literature and Digital Art

If We Were Allowed to Visit

By Gemma Mahadeo and Ian MacLarty

Please explore the piece in fullscreen at this link. This work is not compatible with mobile phones.

If We Were Allowed To Visit is an anthology of poems by Gemma Mahadeo rendered by Ian MacLarty. As you move through the game’s environment, the poems are rearranged into the shapes of the objects they’re about, each frame becoming a new generative poem.