User:Kim/Special Issue 1/Tracing Networks Backwards

Note: this is the documentation page of "Tracing Networks Backwards". For the draft page visit Wiki Hyperlink Game

"Websites themselves are almost meaningless — meaning exists in its links, not in its pages" Daniel Murray

Browser Version

a browser version is in process: you can find the current state here

interface

made changes

• The page is operatable by the usual mouse and trackpad input keys but also by using tap key and enter

Sounds of Making (event)

impressions

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  wip setting up computer and controller

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  installation at UBIK

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  sticker

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  circular interface

loose thoughts: visitors liked interacting with the web interface through the joystick. The whole installation required my frequent care and attention (which I did not plan with but enjoyed): printer was jamming at almost every print, prints needed to be posted to the wall in correct order, specialities of the interface and its navigation needed some explanation and then before and after: bringing cerealbox, safe transport (for the first time), making it presentable and functioning in a public space ...
This did not start as a group project, but in the event it was: I was super happy about getting so much help setting up and then introduced some classmates to the work who then took over and introduced their friends to it too!

manual

This printed manual was attached to the table in the event space and introduced visitors to interacting with the website using the joystick.

set up

Event Version 1 (Joystick navigation, printing over a duration of 4 hours, every 10 minutes): is running on few different languages and protocols.

traced links pdfs

The graph was collecting all wikipedia links clicked throughout the event. While it took many different shapes in its iterative printouts, this is its final form:
digital pdf: graph.pdf
scan of the printed original: