Rita’s starting point is that literature is considered
boring for teenagers as it’s hard to concentrate on a
book, because is taking such a small part of your
eyesight, with only white pages and black letters on them.
Creating a VR- experience, where your whole world is about
words and which is interactive, might give a new
perspective about literature as well. Rita Eperjesi
developed a prototype for a Virtual Reality Poetry Book.
She explored how these two genres can interact with each
other, if the content of literature can find new ways of
expressions through virtual reality. Does seeing the other
side of a letter make you get lost in the beauty of
shapes? Does walking between words add other dimensions to
the meaning? Here the experiencer’s brain is augmenting
different meaning making strategies and creates
personalized interpreting structures.
In this experience the experiencer is walking in the
forest of words. By encountering each words, they will
become part of his/her poem. That poem will be like a
wind, an own entity flowing around and whispering the
words. This project is inspired by the French movement
called Oulipo, Ouvroir de littérature potentielle, roughly
translated: "workshop of potential literature" which seeks
to create works using constrained writing techniques.The
group defines the term littérature potentielle as (rough
translation): "the seeking of new structures and patterns
which may be used by writers in any way they enjoy".