Joseph Moore

Exercises in combination.

Simple Exchange allows users to exchange textual content between webpages. HTML and XML are the lingua franca of the web; they facilitate the ability to categorize enormous quantaties of information. At the same time they establish equivalences between what are often very different contents.

I contribute to the ShiftSpace metaweb project. ShiftSpace is an open source layer above any website. It seeks to expand the creative possibilities currently provided through the web. ShiftSpace provides tools for artists, designers, architects, activists, developers, students, researchers, and hobbyists to create online contexts built in and on top of websites. ShiftSpace was initiated by Dan Phiffer and Mushon Zer-Aviv.

Cutups is a addon for the ShiftSpace metaweb application. Cutups allows users to select and "cutup" text on any webpage so that new meanings and uses may be discovered and articulated. To use Cutups you must first install the ShiftSpace application for the Firefox browser.

A processed version of Charles Dickens' Philadelphia, and Its Solitary Prison.

Many Times is a sketch for an interface that allows users the ability to comment on content by reassembling it. Clicking on a word copies that word, clicking again in the document pastes that copied text into a new location. To save your changes for others to see, hover over the NYT logo and choose save.

Transubstantiation is the processes durning The Eucharist in which the body and blood of Christ are transformed into bread and wine, the form remaining the same while the substance changes. In this transformation we find what might be a reversal of the former: a word becomes an image and so form changes while substance remains unchanged. It often seems that the words are more "full of meaning" than the images. Perhaps only a portion of the original is passed on in the articulation. What is left to be said is that while the first is an act of magic and faith, the magical character of the second is only apparent.