User:Pleun/thematic/Chain Reaction

Project

Nataliya and I looked at the way Youtubes autoplay and Googles method of crawling the internet works. We decided to create word poetry by creating a Python code and borrowing a line printer. The code works as follows:

• Goes to the URL you provide
• Lists all the links on the page
• Lists all the text on the page
• "Feed me a number" gives back the n't word of that page
• A second "Feed me a number" let's the code follow the n't link of the page to the next page.

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• When the number given is too high, so there's no word to print or link to follow, the poem ends.

In a small performance, me and Nataliya were part of the chain, as was everyone in the room.

• Nataliya asked the "Feed me a number" to a random person in the room.
• The people in the room provide the numbers
• Nataliya asks me to print the given word
• I print the word

• http://pzwart1.wdka.hro.nl/~pleun/ChainReaction/

Notes

• Succes and failure
• Beautiful and not so beautiful
• Beautiful collapse

“I understand the term “constructive instability” first in its most literal form, namely as the property of an artefact, constructed and built for the purpose of drawing maximal use from the processes engendered when it collapses or self-destructs.” –Thomas Elsaesser.

constructive instability of performanced failure

Prototypes about chain-reaction and constructive instability.

What do these things mean to you?

Chain: network of people. Contagious? Viral?

message chain, mouse trap

Inspiration

• http://www.koalastothemax.com/
• http://www.ifyesno.com/
• http://www.intotime.com/
• https://www.jasondavies.com/wordtree/?source=b4ede1958dc32685038777a52824f488&prefix=constructivism
• http://mrdoob.com/projects/google/chrome/collapse/