Signal to Noise is an internet-native work of hypertext fiction. It is designed to be read by multiple simultaneous readers. Trajectories of concurrent readings intertwine and subtly affect one another in real time.
Readers on different computers are unable to communicate with one another as characters, but each reader interaction creates a shared ripple on the surface of the text. These ripples, fragmentary yet intermittently intelligible words and phrases, are visible not only to the reader whose decisions created them, but to any other readers online. Within a few moments, the lines of scattered, shared ephemera (subtext, echoes, commentary, context) subside and disappear.
Publications:
Originally published in Streamflow Conditions (no longer online), Subito Press (2009)
Exhibitions:
ELO Visionary Landscapes Media Arts Show, Vancouver WA (2008)
Electronic Literature in Europe, Bergen, Norway (2008)
