We were heavily inspired by the works of Jeff Noon when this project started out. At first we wanted to make an hypertext version of a vurt-dream. Then we wanted to make the whole thing more geometrical, so we discarded almost everything of the original idea, keeping only the feather metaphor.

We think that this metaphor, as presented in the books, is a great analogy for poetry, a poem being somewhat like a dream that lingers a bit after you read it. Dreams are real, even when you dream a lucid dream you feel the reality of it, the core of our essence, what poetry is all about.

Life is not really a virtual theatre of postmodern left-brain relativity (even though it may seem so at times). Sure, the menu is not the meal, but the actual process of eating that meal is as real as it gets. Since our history is mostly written by body-punishing French chainsmoking caffeine freaks it tends to omit the reality of life.

Logic is a way cool toy but it leads nowhere near any kind of truth. Truths are physical, like someone getting shot in the head; he may or may not believe in the reality of the bullet, yet he is inevitably going to end up dead. Of course truths are not static things (this is why logic fails).

What we like to revolt against here is the too-much-theory approach of Western minds towards technology and culture. Even we, on a basic plane, do feel the physicality of being, even though we drink more than 23 cups of coffee a day. The finger to key contact is still aesthetically pleasing for the observer. The physicality of abstract poetry perhaps even more so.

Consumer culture and everyday life may seem weird and strange from the viewpoint of the outsider, but J.G. Ballard has channeled his vision of ordinary life wonderfully into his books. By reclaiming social reality from the depths of hive-control, another aesthetic is born. Everything is aesthetic. We aim to please.

During the long production stage of this project we have tried different ways of writing hyperlinked poetry. Finally we chose to randomize the links by the use of Javascript. In some poems, all parts are linked to every other part of the document, in other poems the linking is more structured.

One of our first ideas was to make the link structure resemble three-dimensional geometric forms, as expressed in the telegraphwires poem. Each paragraph constitutes a "corner" in a virtual box. The telegraphwires poem also features the fuzzy MouseOver interface we intended to use on all the poems.

In the DADA poem, which was the next to be completed, we used the zen principle of random links instead - every document is linked to every other document. We also made a starting place that links to all the 100 permutations of the original (which we stole from somewhere).

Then we have poems like the hypercube, which is an attempt at explaining 4-dimensionality in a poetic right-brain way. We suggest that you try to keep a fast pace as you explore the poems, focusing more on the n-dimensional movement of the globe and let the texts be secondary.

Vurtlove, then, is an exposé of the forces of love. Insane, strictly geometrical, and yet so terribly pure. "Poised on the verge of explicit expression" as someone has put it.

Think of an army of neonate robots coming of age in a post-industrial environment, and you've got The Wild Bots.

The Archipelago - the Milky Way mist seeps into the very soul of the island folk. Beauty can be found in the mixture of seagull cries and lonely heavy metal riffs echoing over the silent water.

Life goes on, despite totalitarian intervention, on the edge of the Old Ring Road.

This site is also an attempt to explore the geometry of hyperlinking. As HTML architects, we build a structure where before was none. Normally the geometry of virtual places is incorporated within the architecture. We try to show "wireframes" of the poemic structure (except for the dada poem which is pure void).

The process of mapping space is reality creation; it literally creates space. Raw space is frightening. The creative artist is creating culture by wiring the virtual fences on the spaceless plain of virtuality and in this way creating the founding polygons of culture.

This site relies on Javascript, so you better surf with a browser version 3 or better. Also you need a color or gray-scale screen to see the graphix, which are an essential part of the poems.