I submitted "Pillophilia":
http://www.sporkworld.org/pills
to the Buffalo Digital Media Arts Festival at Canisius College:
http://chupacabra.canisius.edu/festival/index.php
where it won the Peoples' Choice award.

The piece consisted of the song "I am the very model of a psychopharmacologist" (my lyrics, adapted from Gilbert & Sullivan), performed by Michael Szpakowski, with his piano accompaniment. The song is presented in a Flash-based player with subtitles. The second part is a music video for the song with Elana Shneyer's acting, along with 2D (Flash) animation, and 3D (Swift3D) animation. The third part is a Flash application that gives information on each drug mentioned in the song.

Sporkworld also got a 3rd Place award in the Web Design & Interactive category for "News from Erewhon":
http://www.sporkworld.org/news
by Martha Deed and Millie Niss, which was originally published in the Iowa Review Web:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/mainpages/tirwebhome.htm
in 2005.


I am very grateful to Elana and Michael for their contributions to this project.

"Pilloiphilia" was made initially for the Huffington Post's Contagious Media contest last year (http://cf.huffingtonpost.com/archives/2-2006.php), where it did respectably but could not compete with works about Cheney's shooting "accident"...