Gallery 404

Ed Burton
2003

"recentevents" consists of a flowing stream of letter tokens. As the tokens intermingle, they extend sticky tendrils to one another that form clots of letters, or words. Letters and clots that find many potential partners grow forked spidery bundles of tendrils as they compete to attract their prospective neighbours. As the process continues, the clots eventually coalesce to reveal three recent events siphoned from a BBC world service news feed.

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