Opening Sources is a poem continuously written by anonymous online authors. In live performance, the poem is projected on a screen and the audience is invited to edit the text while the reading is underway. A loop of feedback forms as the audience takes uncertain control over its collective voice.
Note: the text presented is often English, but could be in any language.
(Source: Author's description from project site)
In this piece the user can type whatever they wish into the application. The application takes this information and displays it in a more or less conventional manner. However, it does this in a number of different languages, including English, Greek symbols, the decimal ASCII codes that map keyboard keys to typography, the binary codes that equate to these, Morse Code and Braille. In all cases, except that of the Braille, the material is all remembered and displayed back to the user. All material written is also saved to the user's hard-drive, as it is typed in, so that they may keep a permanent record of that which has been written. The saved file is called "LossText" and you should be able to find it in the prefs or plug-ins folder of the browser you are using to run the application. You could find it using the FIND command of your computer.
As in other pieces, such as 'This is not a Hypertext' and 'Book of Books', this work also auto-resizes the text as required. If you choose to keep writing for long enough the text you are writing will eventually become reduced to 1 point fontsize, rendering all the different codes visually equivalent and equally unreadable (except for the Braille). Nobody has yet developed a Braille computer display so for those who would prefer to read their Braille with their sense of touch I regret I am unable to facilitate this option currently.
(Source: Artist's description from the project site)
