Artport Gate Page February 03
The Agent's Story
by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Adam Chapman, Brion Moss, Duane Whitehurst
http://artport.whitney.org
The Impermanence Agent began in 1998 as a storytelling Web agent that
customized its texts and images based on monitoring of each reader's Web
browsing. Five years later, the project is turning inside out - rather than
showing each individual a story customized for them, it now shows all
visitors the stories altered by a few "featured browsers." During the month
of February 2003, the Agent's story will be progressively altered for these
browsers, with the results continually viewable, and at the end of the
month, the final version will be archived on the Whitney server. With this,
the project's weight shifts between individual experience and collective,
between long-term customization and short-term surveillance, between
impermanence and archiving. Most users now will never see our original
story, but only the results of many browser-driven alterations - not our
story, but the Agent's. So we call this next stage The Agent's Story.
Featured Browsers: Julia Flanders, Nick Montfort, and Stuart Moulthrop.
Project support provided by The NYU Center for Advanced Technology.
Artport Gate Page Feb 03: Impermanence Agent -- The Agent's Story
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