Hi and thanks for this; I'm wondering though about "notoriously impenetrable" - I've read the book all the way through without any difficulty whatsoever; most of the people I know have had the same experience. Just curious, Alan
On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, New Radio and Performing Arts Inc. wrote:
Turbulence.org Commission: text_ocean by Zannah Marsh [Optimized for Google Chrome]: text_ocean is an experiment in random access reading and text visualization, using Herman Melville?s notoriously impenetrable whalefishery epic Moby Dick as source material. Selections of the text are blown apart and become a dynamic sea of words, animated according to grammatical function. The user ?reads? the text by ?hooking? and releasing words and, in the process, disconnects them from their original lines. Thus Moby Dick is slowly, randomly rewritten by the user, word by word, as she reads. text_ocean is a 2015 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for its Turbulence.org website. It was made possible with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. BIOGRAPHY Zannah Marsh is a Brooklyn-based artist, designer, educator, and programmer with an interest in narrative data and collaborative storytelling. She has taught multimedia art and design at New York University, the New School, and in the City University of New York system. Zannah was a resident researcher at NYU?s Interactive Telecommunications Program, and she?s interned with the Creative Systems Group at Microsoft Research and with Area/Code Games in New York City. She also worked as an exhibit developer at the Museum of Science in Boston, producing internationally-traveling interactive exhibits. She has a MPS from NYU?s Interactive Telecommunications Program (2009), and a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (2000). ?Like? us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/nrpa.org http://facebook.com/turbulence.org Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/turbulenceorg -- Helen Thorington and Jo-Anne Green, Co-Directors New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.http://new-radio.org http://turbulence.org http://somewhere.org
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