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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.sign69.com/">http://www.sign69.com/</a><br>
by Phil Wood<br>
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"The web site sign69.org is structured around the concept of
randomness. Once the user enters the site, she has only two
possibilities, to watch the video that is being loaded or to click on
the button that randomly chooses another one. The choices are rather
simple, as Philip Wood has always kept away from the use of cryptic
interfaces. It is one of his stylistic characters not to use
interactive options. Unsatisfied by the low level of participation that
an active button gives, a button that changes color, dimension or that
simply connects to another image, he decided to concentrate on the
calculus options of the computing machine rather than on the
interactive possibilities. Here then stems the choice to construct <u>an
experience on line that reminds of television</u>: a screen and a
button that changes the channel. Each single video made by Philip Wood
constitutes a piece of an ideal random film about his life and about
web images. The possibility of accessing the infinite amount of
material only in a random manner creates a strong feeling of suspense
in the spectator, who each times experiences a different editing:
always the same story but edited differently each time. Difference in
unity." (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.digicult.it">www.digicult.it</a>)<br>
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V.<br>
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