- from “Random By” (Process on Source), and: From “Una página de Babel” (Process on Source), and: from “Use of Dust” (Process on Source)
from “Random By” (Process on Source)
body {
[“quiet at her window”, 6],
[“fuck life”, 1],
[“but harmless”, 1],
document.body.style.background = “rgb(“ + r + “,” + g + “,” + b + “)”;
overflow: visible;
}
[“went down”, 3],
<body onload=”go();”>
[“own other living soul”, 1],
[“in the end”, 1],
g = g - 1;
[“mother rocker”, 1],
{
[“for a blind up”, 1],
height: 1px;
}
/*]]> */
[“dead one night”, 1],
[“no”, 3],
[“one other living soul”, 4],
<html><head>
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[“went back in”, 1],
[“saying to herself”, 3],
<title>Random By</title></head>
margin:0;
[“whom else”, 7],
[“and rocked”, 2],
[“facing other windows”, 5],
[“never mind a face”, 1],
[“dead one day”, 1],
[“let down the blind and stopped”, 1],
[“another creature like herself”, 1],
[“head fallen”, 1],
if (duration > 0) {
[“to and fro”, 1],
</html>
[“all eyes”, 7],
color:#000;
[“was her own other”, 1],
for (i=0; i<pair[1]; i++) {
[“in the end went down”, 2],
function stream() {
[“closing eyes”, 1],
pair=distribution.pop();
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[“to herself”, 5],
[“in the end went back in”, 1],
}
[“those arms at last”, 2],
[“till the day came”, 2],
[“the day came”, 2],y
[“gone off her head”, 1],
var pair, i, duration;
margin: auto;
font-family:sans-serif;
[“all eyes like herself”, 1],
[“at her window”, 6],
}
streaming = window.setInterval(stream, 1900);
}
}
[“in the rocker”, 1],
return duration;
function parameter() {
<style type=”text/css”>
<meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8” />
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From “Una página de Babel” (Process on Source)
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from “Use of Dust” (Process on Source)
< Strict
text
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Nick
modified
A House of Dust
a 1967 program by Alison Knowles and James Tenney
to use, modify, and
notice
THE AUTHOR
SHALL
DIRECT SEQUENTIAL DAMAGE
RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE
ARISING OUT OF
PERFORMANCE
round
family
size:14
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a
text
{
}
right
absolute;
height
ground
thin
* *
text
material = SAND
DUST
PAPER
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ROOTS
trans
parent
trans
parent
trans
parent
trans
parent LATE
FACT
trans
parent
OLD
LACE
trans
parent
trans
parent
IS
UNDERWATER = = =
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= = =
= =
= =
=
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and
choose
choose choose
choose
choose inhabitants
strict
last text
inner
litany
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litany
litany
body
of
Brown
13 March 2015
Use
this erasure
unselect
all the text and see [End Page 162]
Nick Montfort develops computational art and poetry. He teaches at MIT, has a naming firm, Nomnym, and wrote #! and more than fifty digital projects, including collaborations The Deletionist and Sea and Spar Between. Has has five MIT Press books, with Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities just out.