http://www.lewislacook.com/alanSondheim/
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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.
There are four different background music sequences, and these load when this page loads. Revisit to hear them all.
The film loop is Alan's: I altered it, but it can be found in its original form on Alan's Internet Text site (http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt/).
http://www.lewislacook.com/
net art review: http://www.netartreview.net/
tubulence artist studio: http://turbulence.org/studios/lacook/index.html
furtherfield: http://www.furtherfield.org/home.html
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Alan Sondheim Web Mix
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marc
http://www.lewislacook.com/alanSondheim/
Flash 6
speakers on
A month or so ago Alan mentioned to me that he had once written a text ed=
itor 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 p=
ossibilities of user input and transformation…a work that would literally=
change what the user invested in the object…So I set about making an app=
roximation 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 w=
ill change; sometimes it will be replaced by a line from some of Alan's wri=
ting, 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 Al=
an's original program, but it seems to me to be a worthy web amusement.
There are four different background music sequences, and these load when =
this page loads. Revisit to hear them all.
The film loop is Alan's: I altered it, but it can be found in its origina=
l form on Alan's Internet Text site (http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet=
_txt/).
http://www.lewislacook.com/
net art review: http://www.netartreview.net/
tubulence artist studio: http://turbulence.org/studios/lacook/index.html=
furtherfield: http://www.furtherfield.org/home.html
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