Jason Edward Lewis
with Bruno Nadeau & Elie Zananiri

2007 - 2010

three versions:
1. 42" single-point touchscreen
2. 42" two-point touchscreen bi-lingual
3. single-point iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch

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What They Speak When They Speak To Me

Interactive touch poem.

What They Speak When They Speak to Me is an interactive poem about mistaken identity and the confusion--amusing and alarming--that happens when people believe you are somebody you are not.

What They Speak... is a formal experiment in different modes of presenting poems to be read through touch interaction. To date we have customized versions for 42" single-point touchscreeen (Oboro, Montreal 2007), 50" two-point touchscreen (English and French text, Biblioteque Nationale, Montreal 2010) and single-point mobile for iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch (iTunes 2010).

What They Speak... is the first work in the Poetry for Excitable [Mobile] Media (P.o.E.M.M.) series exploring poetry written to be read through touch interaction.

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Video and image documentation from Everything You Thought We'd Forgotten solo exhibition, Oboro, Montreal, January - February 2007. (42" single-touch)

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Video documentation from Montréal: Sur le fleuve des langues, Bibioteque Nationale due Québec, Montreal, October - December 2010. (50" two-touch bi-lingual English and French streams.)