Compositions of Disquiet (2023)

Compositions of Disquiet are a series of visual compositions computationally created from the Machines of Disquiet. Machines of Disquiet are a series of experiments about the manipulation of media materialities and textual forms that explore the free play of signifiers. They use the Book of Disquiet as a modular textual database for a series of applications that engage digital modalities and interactions through programmed permutations at different scales (from letter to word to sentence). These printed visual compositions are created by automatically combining and mixing elements from the interface of the Machines of Disquiet through scripting. As with these interfaces, we are interested in testing the generation of new perceptual spaces, such as when a visual composition is situated between an abstraction and a letter, or when a textual operation highlights the cognitive nature of reading. By choosing and fixing particular visual compositions, this work aims to highlight the role of the digital interface as a performance context in the experimentation and creation of textual landscapes.

Keywords

Book of Disquiet, scripting

Exhibitions

2023Compositions of Disquiet, Electronic Literature Organisation 2023 exhibition, curated by Daniela Côrtes Maduro, Manuel Portela, Alex Saum-Pascual and Rui Torres, Coimbra;