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Figure 10. Animated Text. In Kate Pullinger and Talan Memmot's elegant animated poem, Bronded,text animation takes the formof moving the text on screen a line at a time, dispensing the poem at a rate determined by the authors.mosa's "Ell sort de seta I'aigua," accompany the sound of the poet's readingby movtngwords and phrases of different sizes and colors across the screenfrom top to bottom and from one edge ofthe screen to another; words popin and out of existence, too, as the text performs itself.8 More radical experimentationwith animated text appears in Philadelpho Menezes and WiltonAzvedo's Interpoesia: Poesia Hipmed.ia Interativa (1998), in which elements (orfragments) of both spoken and written words react to the reader's manipulationof the computer mouse. Letters move, parts ofwords change color or disappear,and sounds become layered upon one another as the reader essentiallyperforms the text using the sounds provided.Moving text on screen, which has only become possible for most userswith the advent of inexpensive computing power and broad bandwidth, hashad an effect on digital literary arts almost as dramatic as that of word processingon academic institutions and the workplace. But are such projectshypertextual (and does it matter)l