Dakota is a piece of electronic literature that was expressed through means of jazz music and words controlled by the music’s flow. The story is straight and to the point with no time to look deeper into the meaning of each word. You can’t really look for a deeper meaning to the piece because it really doesn’t give you enough time to comprehend each and every word. The music, extremely large text, hard to read fonts, and speed of the text caused this piece to be just flat out difficult to read. It is a longer piece with a run time of about 15 minutes. Dakota is not interactive with the reader and there are no rewind, pause, or stop buttons, which can be extremely frustrating. The text seems longer than it is from the constant, quick word changes and the repetitive music.
The author of Dakota, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, said that this work was based on a previous work called Canto I and Canto II. Jessica Pressman wrote an article on some of the similarities and made the connection for how Dakota relates to Canto. Pressman said that Canto and Dakota follow the same storylines, and those come from Pound, who took parts of Homer’s The Odyssey. Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries actually mentions Pound at the end of Dakota further bridging the connection between the two.
The story was difficult to follow from the fast transitions that chopped up the phrases. The most a viewer could’ve got out of it through on turn was details from glaces at the flashing words. Some words were more emphasized than others due to the larger text, which caught the reader’s attention. These words are the ones most likely to be remembered by the reader. It’s a piece that needs to be read a few times to understand fully.
The beginning of the story seemed to take place during a road trip where the main character got drunk, and went on a weird adventure. The F word came up a couple times and stayed on the page longer than most of the other words, which did catch the reader's attention. Since the story is based off another, it can be helpful the read the story it was based off of. It could give the reader a better understanding of what the new story is about.
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