User:SN/Untitled

Originally the project was a performance made by Pleun and me during the thematic project "Chain reaction". Pleun and I played on the field of combinatory literature, machine art and chain reactions. We looked at the way Youtube autoplay and Google method of crawling the internet works and took it as a starting point. The process is based on the loops of chain reactions, where the error plays a role 'decision maker' where to stop poem.

During the performance, I was operating computer and played the role of a coupler between audience, computer and Pleun. Pleun was operating printer.

• The performance starts with providing the link to the Python script.
• Script follows the link, extracts all the text and links that are on this page.
• I ask a random person to feed me a number.
• The number determines which word to extract.
• I ask Pleun to print this word.
• After she finishes, I ask one more time a random person to feed me a number.
• The number determines which link to follow.
• Process repeats.
• The failure to follow a link or extract a word that causes the system to finish "the poem".