A browser based digital poem in three parts

Aphiddd is a browser-based digital poem that uses a series of natural textures/shapes and animated texts to uncover the nature of a parasitic human connection.

Written and developed by Andy Campbell with a soundtrack by Barry Snaith, the work was featured as part of the Commiserate Chicago new media exhibition 2020 and in the Fall 2019 edition of The New River the internet’s oldest online journal of digital art and literature (established in 1996). It will be featured in the forthcoming Electronic Literature Collection Volume 4.

Use the mouse and your mouse’s scroll wheel (or the arrow keys on the keyboard and R+F to zoom in and out) to explore the poem. The poem is comprised of 3 sections.  

View Aphiddd in your browser

* Requires Chrome, Firefox or Opera. The work can also be viewed on high-end mobile devices.