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PooL Processing «Imaginary Library»
PooL Processing, «Imaginary Library», 1990
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On this level, the reader is activated and has the option to choose chapters that include writing processes involving historic speech and text samples: these include "virus sentences", infinite children's rhymes, linguistic loops that can be extended. "Mesochstichon", following the tradition of James Joyce and John Cage, offers a poetic way of visually rearranging letter sequences in order to enable the reader to read vertically, diagonally and in other directions. The chapter "The Infinite Book" employs the potentially infinite Ars Combinatoria. Using 64 single words one can realize different new texts enhanced with poetic semantics. "Questions and Answers" offers information on the theoretical and historic background to the work.


 PooL Processing
«Imaginary Library»

'Infiltrating production methods from the field of art into another way of handling communication media is a possible pointer to the way out of the dilemma posed by post-Modern apocalypse theories, and admits a new aesthetic production concept that plays itself out on the surfaces of the new media.'
Heiko Idensen

PooL Processing has been working not only on fragmenting and collaging surfaces and transforming the linearity of the reading process into a non-linear movement, but also on involving a large number of 'authors' in this since the late 80s. The 'Imaginary Library – Journeys into the rhetorical spaces of art-hyper-texts' appeared first in 1990 as an offline data-base, but is now also available in a HTML version. The program makes it possible to feed quotations and literary predecessors into personal thinking and writing processes as basic stock. Associative links trigger another kind of reading, known as 'HyperTextPoetry'.

 

Rudolf Frieling