Mar de Sophia

Mar de Sophia is a collection of virtual poems presented in hypermedia format, in which the animated text on the screen is automatically generated from the lexicon of the poet Sophia de Mello Breyner Andersen, previously studied in terms of frequency. This lexicon, which (re)constructs the work of Sophia, and classifies and maps it within the network, is indexed to code lists in XML, accessible to the reader, whom can alter or add new words or units of meaning. The animation of the text is also inscribed in the sound component of the combinatorial variations that result from this process. Whenever a word is changed, the poem performs a search in sound databases with readings of the poems. Thus, the reader can recreate, in the axis of combinatorial language, any poem by Sophia, adapting it to his/her liking, as well as send some of his accomplishments, both sonic and verbal, to a PHP server installed on an Internet server. The various versions of the readers are archived. The combinatorial code and engine was programmed with the  collaboration of Nuno F. Ferreira and Filipe Valpereiro. All poems are also placed within a three-dimensional environment based on the critically-reflexive process of the central argument of this hypermedia. The creation of interactive spaces was developed by Luis Carlos Petry.