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Métatextes - © Tim Catinat, all right reserved #1617
title : Métatextes
œuvre : Métatextes
category : website design
description : Metatexts is an interactive poetry website experimentating a mix of texts, code, sounds, images and animations. Intuition and meaning are to be questioned within an intimate atmosphere developed at the user’s pace. Navigation from a metatext to another is to be made via the press of the keyboard’s space bar. Ways of navigating inside a metatext depend on the feature and intuition. Features are randomly picked among an unknown selection from the artist.
Metatexts was first published in French [Métatextes.com] on the web in 2002, was noticed by the French national press [Le Monde Littéraire, Libération, Télérama] and participated to many off-lines exhibitions in France. Its international version Metatexts saw the light of the day in 2004 [thanks again to the late Martha Mast for her invaluable help with regards to its translation].
2021 note : initially built on the Flash technology which has been abandonned by Adobe in late 2020, only those with a former configuration can nowadays still access to https://metatextes.com/metatexts for a real immersion into this project [press keyboard’s space bar in case of bug – and make sure your browser enable pop-up windows for the metatexts url].
Youtube shortclips are also available as video memories, but the whole project's interest strongly relies on the interactive and random experience.

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