Grammatron

"Inspired by Derrida's Of Grammatology, Mark Amerika experiments in 'Grammatron' with narrative form in a networked environment. Amerika retells the Jewish Golem myth by adapting it into the culture of programmable media and remixing several genres of text into the story's hybridized style, including metafiction, hypertext, cyberpunk, and conceptual works affiliated with the Art+Language group.

Narrated from various authorial perspectives, the story introduces readers to Abe Golam, a pioneering Net artist who creates Grammatron, a writing machine. Endowed not with the Word (as in the original myth) but with forbidden data—a specially coded Nanoscript—the creature becomes a digital being that 'contains all of the combinatory potential of all the writings.' The 'Grammatron' is the personification of the Golem, which is also a personification of Amerika the artist. While the Golem and its environment have been depicted in any number of literary adaptations and works, in 'Grammatron', Mark Amerika creates a seemingly infinite, recombinant (text-)space in the electrosphere." -- From Electronic Literature Directory