f.loop

2018
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I made f.loop for a digital literature assignment in college. Playing with organic and inorganic, nature and infrastructure, I imagined how my parents’ town would look & sound if every person disappeared. How many alarm clocks would beep until they ran out of battery, one by one?

The set-up is relatively simple: 4 columns, each randomly generating text from a list of possible words or phrases I wrote. After 15 seconds, the poem resets; from that point, it generates indefinitely until you close the page. The words in each column will eventually pile up to form 4 almost-rectangles. No more meaning — just shapes.