<div dir="ltr"><p><br><b>Turbulence.org Commission: <a href="http://turbulence.org/commissions/text_ocean" target="_blank">text_ocean</a></b> by <i>Zannah Marsh</i> <br>[Optimized for Google Chrome]:</p><p><b>text_ocean</b> is an experiment in random access reading
and text visualization, using Herman Melville’s notoriously
impenetrable whalefishery epic Moby Dick as source material. Selections
of the text are blown apart and become a dynamic sea of words, animated
according to grammatical function. The user “reads” the text by
‘hooking’ and releasing words and, in the process, disconnects them from
their original lines. Thus Moby Dick is slowly, randomly rewritten by
the user, word by word, as she reads.</p>
<p><b>text_ocean</b> is a 2015 commission of <a href="http://new-radio.org" target="_blank">New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.</a> for its <a href="http://turbulence.org" target="_blank">Turbulence.org</a> website. It was made possible with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.<span></span></p>
<p>BIOGRAPHY</p>
<p><a href="http://zannahbot.com/" target="_blank">Zannah Marsh</a> is a Brooklyn-based
artist, designer, educator, and programmer with an interest in narrative
data and collaborative storytelling. She has taught multimedia art and
design at New York University, the New School, and in the City
University of New York system. Zannah was a resident researcher at NYU’s
Interactive Telecommunications Program, and she’s interned with the
Creative Systems Group at Microsoft Research and with Area/Code Games in
New York City. She also worked as an exhibit developer at the Museum of
Science in Boston, producing internationally-traveling interactive
exhibits. She has a MPS from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications
Program (2009), and a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in
Boston (2000).</p>
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