ALLOY is an artist's book that weaves together human and computer generated writing to create a quasi-fictional textbook for use in the studio or classroom. It was created out of dozens of passages, quotes, memories, ramblings, and scraps of information pieced together using one of the many computer programs available for mixing text (openwound.mbutler.org). The book was originally created as a prop to help discover how to make sense out of nonsense. By forcing myself to find meaning in the book's random but familiar words, I hope to discover new ways of prescribing significance to familiar yet unpredictable aspects of life not associated with the book. It is both an instruction manual and an oracle. Since it's creation it has been used as a college textbook, theater script, devotional text, science fiction novel, and art object. It is available through Printed Matter, Inc.
The first 100 words: “Electricity and death, intimacy, of an imaginative resource guessing something in the center. We have a means for inanimate objects to enter the polarity and the need for connection of thought and the dreamy Savannas, through its power, it moves; a tea-party for emergence; wherever there still insisting on the power and other forms the certainty of the spiritual wave sends out similar thoughts which we engage in a quest myth are a vibration of an intimacy, the materialization of his linear vectors or stable expression of vision ray freedom of conciousness. By the right technique of the dense pattern of mind.”