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presentation   composition generation

     pattern

         demands    specialcapabilities

modelled         holography

                    project       general

literature  exist    programmablemachines

 words  text  glossed paraphrased etymologized

   allowed  interfere     words          text  set

     work   machine         poetry

writing             unexplored         body

    developing                       work

rules machine   computerprogram    defines  displays

   finishedwork                  introduction

                         pattern  languageproduced

acrostically   transformed  transformations

Networked  programmablemedia  opened     working

Net          definition         term  closely

forms        field   potential   new       creative

space     includes field                 artistic
 
from the Web site of John Cayley
 
 
 
 

 
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  var content; // chance process  
  var context; // dynamic process 
  var meaning = content % context;
 

 
 
Readings

Playing with
chance processing of pre-existing content and dynamic (chance) processing of context.

original > source > Readings < context

Content

Source texts
for Readings are generated from published writings by artists, theorists, and researchers in the new media.

    -
                     .  ,  , ,   ,         -.

    Processing
    of source texts is subject to rules:

      rules are many
      rules are arbitrary
      rules are applied consistently *
      rules are applied singly and in combination
       
      * as humanly possible, i.e., not mechanically absolute

      
        , ..,                ;         , .

    
               ,       -  .

Context

Processing for context
involves standard HTML coding of source texts for the Web, plus Javascript coding for dynamic presentation.

     
         :

      ()  () 
        () 
      ()  ()   ( )
      .()  (  )

       
      ''        ( -).           .

    Dynamic inclusion
    of chance-determined elements    - ,     ,             .        --   -- a 'contextual hint' to possible meaning(s)   .

Meaning

 
           ,   ,     .           ,      .

  ,
   . Realization is the meaning.
 

 
 

 
 


Readings

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