A Reduction of Literary Works

A Reduction of Literary Works is a project that explores the use of text tag scripting applied in a reductive method to produce unlikely and printed works that are antithetical to todays’ common tag cloud systems. The source material used for these anti-tag clouds are classic works of literature that have been banned by libraries, communities, states, and so on. The printed pieces act like beat poetry but in a eulogistic sense. They praise both the work of literature that they re-present and they present a counter-intuitive approach to word clouds. The final printed works in some ways may not represent the project in its entirety. I have been working on a performace piece that would include me sitting in the gallery editing or censoring the book to match the list of words displayed in the printed word lists of the books. I am also considering either reading aloud the final book or reading the word list either in monotone or in a sentence structure like manner.

Some of the first books completed for this project are James Joyce’s Ulysses and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.