Anonymous Animal
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| Author | Everest Pipkin |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | electronic literature |
Publication date | 2022 |
| Awards | New Media Writing Prize, The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature |
| Website | https://everest-pipkin.com/projects/anonymous_animal |
Anonymous Animal is a work of electronic literature by Everest Pipkin. It was first published in the online literary journal HTML Review in 2022.[1]
It won the New Media Writing Prize in 2022,[2] and the Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature in 2023.[3]
Anonymous Animal is a poem that is designed to be read in a web browser and that can be viewed once an hour, on the hour. The poem lasts for 15 minutes, and in the breaks between runs the website shows images of animals.[4] The work uses the HTML element iFrame to pull in various content from the web, including images, database entries and livestreams.[2] The visual aesthetic is minimalist, with the iFrame surrounded by a white background and the text above it in a simple black serif font.[2]