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realization literature
  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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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.

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    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

      
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Context

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

     
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    realization literature

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

Meaning

 
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   . Realization is the meaning.
 

 
 

 
 


Readings

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