typofrenzy

Inspired by Dan Waber's Strings and Chris Ault's Hotair

Creative Question: Exploring the frantic human experience of trying to keep pace with the flow information through networks.

Process: The piece documents the writer/typists effort to keep pace with the news through the performance of reading and typing. The performer installs software allowing the display of 4 RSS news tickers on his/her computer. The piece begins when the performer initiates the five news streams and sizes the windows along the edges of the screen; then he/she opens a text editor in the middle of the screen.

The piece begins when the typist assumes his/her position at the keyboard, runs a screen capture program, and commences "retyping" the news feeds as they scroll upon the screen. No correction of typographic errors is allowed. The typing must continue four, finteen-minutes movements. At the end of the piece, the four "movies" are uploaded to youtube -- and the typist manually assembles all of the lines with a mistyped word in it -- this constitues the index of "Typofrenzy."