Arenyeka’s web-native folktale unfolds as readers learn Itsẹkiri vocabulary; the piece appears among thirteen other interactive and generative works in the journal’s latest issue.
The piece is published in The HTML Review Issue 05, which collects web-native works including interactive fiction, generative poetry, and sound art.
Omayeli Arenyeka publishes as YellzHeard and brings a technical and artistic background—NYU graduate (2017) in computer science, art, and design—with prior web-based projects.
The work sits alongside thirteen other pieces in Issue 05, released this spring, a lineup spanning interactive fiction, generative poetry, sound art, and other work built specifically to live on the web. Neely-Cohen, built around publishing work that takes full advantage of the web as its own medium rather than treating it as a container for text that could just as easily sit on a printed page. Arenyeka, who publishes online as YellzHeard, brings a background that sits squarely at the intersection The HTML Review is built for.
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