"Zannah Marsh is a Brooklyn-based artist, designer, educator, and programmer with an interest in narrative data and collaborative storytelling.
'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. A new text selection appears each time the browser is refreshed.
The user explores the text by diving into the depths or surfacing, using the up and down arrow keys. The user 'reads' the text by clicking to hook an intriguing word as it drifts or darts past. When a word is hooked, the other words belonging to its line are also slowly pulled in, and assemble, if reluctantly, to be read.
Pressing 'return' will release the words into the sea, but each time a word is unhooked, its connection to its original line of text may be lost. A wild unhooked word may find another line to swim with; the text is slowly, randomly rewritten by the user, word by word, as it is read." -- From Turbulence
C3 - Web PY - 2015 LA - English M3 - Algorithmic, Animated, Interactive, Visualization, Text UR - https://the-next.eliterature.org/works/1421/0/0/ DB - The NEXT Y2 - 2025-04-13 ER -