Happening

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

John F. Kennedy

What happens

The principal problem one has to face is the unobservability of the processes going on in the Net.

The only way to observe interactions with a certain home page or server is the amount of electronic mail, the count of log-ins into a certain page or the number of subscribers to a e-magazine or a discussion group. So we can only talk in a highly selective perspective which depends on where we are located, when we look into the Net and how, about the actual structure of the Internet as accessable to a certain observer at a certain moment.

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Alternumerics by Paul Chan

Alternumerics explores the intimate relationship between language and interactivity by transforming the simple computer font into an art form that explores the fissure between what we type and what we mean.

By replacing the individual letters and numbers (known as alphanumerics) with textual and graphic fragments that signify what is typed in radically different ways, Alternumerics transforms the act of typing into a digital performance and any computer connected to a standard printer into an interactive artmaking installation.