The Quixote

From Rhizome Artbase
2000
Description

The Quixote is a web installation that uses Jorge Luis Borges' short story, 'Pierre Menard: Author Of The Quixote.' In his story, Borges challenges his own authority as the writer who is merely trying to correct a misconception of a novel that never existed, but whose original inspiration has become an institution itself. I used Borges' story to expose the formal aspects of the web, and show how previous ideas can become innovative if presented eloquently through a new form of art.

Eduardo Navas
6 June 2005
Legacy descriptive tags
Soccer, Sancho Panza, Pierre Menard, NY Times, MTV, Jorge Luis Borges, Don Quijote, Cervantes, T-shirts, The Quixote
Attribution: Eduardo Navas
Narrative, Formalist, Conceptual, allegory, Abstract, postmodern, nostalgia, language, Animation, Javascript, HTML, Flash, DHTML, Visual, Text
Attribution: Rhizome staff
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Variant History
outside link
2000
Eduardo Navas
static files
6 June 2005
cloning
Rhizome staff