Excerpt from < Liquid Texts >
by Giselle Beiguelman

...Processed and recombined, the typed texts derive new words,
multiplying meanings, as it was possible to go back to the
etymological nature of the text (derived from the Latin texere -
to weave).

"Textension" [8], by Joshua Nimoy, maximizes this reflection on the
computerized writing and exploration of new text-processing
formats that refuse the transference of the printed culture to
the digital sphere, not by simple opposition, but by recycling
methods that reconfigure both. It is software that does not process
text linearly. All typed words and phrases become bubbles, run in
diagonal lines. They are projected transversally on the screen,
straining and shrinking, defying the analogy of the keyboard with
the typewriter, demanding ergodic [9] processes and alternative
configurations of the media.

Beyond their surprising results, those programming solutions
indicate representative and imaginary transformations in the
hierarchy between program and author. These are stressed by
codework projects as they devote a special attention to the
reader experience...

(c) Giselle Beiguelman 2002

Giselle Beiguelman is a multimedia essayist and web-artist who
lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where she was born. She teaches
digital culture in the Communication and Semiotics Graduate
Program at the PUS-SP. Since 1998, she has run desvirtual.com
<http://www.desvirtual.com>, an editorial studio. Her webwork
includes "The Book after the Book," "Content = No Cache" and "Wop
Art." She has been presenting her webworks in exhibits, festivals
and scientific events devoted to new media art, including
Net_Condition (ZKM), Net‡foras (MECAD) and the twenty-fifth SP
Biennial. She was a featured speaker at the New Media Poetry
Conference at the University of Iowa in 2002 and will be a
featured artist at the 11th ISEA in Nagoya, Japan.