As we live through historic events, we participate in a conversation about their meaning—a conversation that tends to be both fragmentary and filtered through dozens of other experiences. One hears, for example, an important news story on the car radio, just before some jerk cuts you off. We may decry this trend, yearning for the focused public discourse of a town hall meeting, but for most of us, that's the way it is: the world leader dies, the bill passes, and soldiers mount an offensive while we rejoice at finding a good parking space. Despite the media overload, there's a kind of beauty in these fragmentary, filtered conversations: a phrase here, a resonance there, reflections glimpsed in passing, moments of seriousness amid the din.
"bite size" presents fragments of one of the key texts of our time, the 9/11 Commission Report, within a web page that embodies one of the most intriguing capabilities of digital media: the complete separation of form and content.
This is an open-source project. Here are the source files:
"bite size" was created by OT!OM! Labs and the Digital Defrabrication Unit of GEE Enterprises. Aleatory text concept, coding and deployment by Dave O'Meara; RGB boxes and background by Dave O'Meara and G Dumonthier.
This work is dedicated to the Public Domain.