Updated blog is now at Interference Patterns. Sorry for the inconvenience.
takes a while to load.....A month or so ago Alan mentioned to me that he had once written a text editor that was designed to "frustrate" the writing of the user. This editor would transform the user's writing as the user enetered text. I thought it was an ingenious concept for a piece: a work that combined the networking possibilities of user input and transformation...a work that would literally change what the user invested in the object...So I set about making an approximation of what Alan was talking about.
This is the web mix of that idea. A full blown piece of software based on this concept is still in the works (I'm writing THAT one in C++), but this Flash version combines that concept with some multimedia ideas. To use it, simply enter text in the blue box. Every time you press enter, your text will change; sometimes it will be replaced by a line from some of Alan's writing, sometimes it will spatter your text in asemic strings across the box, sometimes your text will simply disappear, and sometimes a combination of these will happen. I doubt that this work is anywhere near as capable as Alan's original program, but it seems to me to be a worthy web amusement.
