Down The ASCII Hole / Batt-Girl (Kibbutzim College of Art & Education) and Eyal Gruss
"Down The ASCII Hole" is an interactive net adaptation of *Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland*, wandering between links of scrambled text and animated ascii-art fields. These impressions are based on the illustrations from the original book, alongside impressions of products and ads from the net.
The story is re-translated and re-born in scrambled English and coded into Leet language (see title). In order to read the texts or to view the whole image, the human body must move as a cursor: wandering, scrolling, clicking, zooming (in/out), mimicking actions that resemble everyday web surfing, asking to break from the real into the virtual. Textuality becomes hypertextuality—The WWW as Wonderland, Alice—as a clueless-geek girl, the navigation as a poetic user experience.
credit: Batt-Girl, Eyal Gruss
Down The ASCII Hole / Batt-Girl (Kibbutzim College of Art & Education) and Eyal Gruss
"Down The ASCII Hole" is an interactive net adaptation of *Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland*, wandering between links of scrambled text and animated ascii-art fields. These impressions are based on the illustrations from the original book, alongside impressions of products and ads from the net.
The story is re-translated and re-born in scrambled English and coded into Leet language (see title). In order to read the texts or to view the whole image, the human body must move as a cursor: wandering, scrolling, clicking, zooming (in/out), mimicking actions that resemble everyday web surfing, asking to break from the real into the virtual. Textuality becomes hypertextuality—The WWW as Wonderland, Alice—as a clueless-geek girl, the navigation as a poetic user experience.
credit: Batt-Girl, Eyal Gruss