This, my final project for the class Intermediate Internet Art, is titled Any HTML. This piece is heavily inspired by All HTML by Evan Roth. The main principle behind my piece is using the DOM API to create an interactive, manipulable interpretation of the messages I interpreted from All HTML. You can access this project online here.
- Clicking on an unoccupied portion of the page creates a new sentence in a random HTML element.
- Clicking on an existing HTML element nests that element in another random element.
- Pressing the down arrow key nests every element on the page in another random element.
- Pressing the left arrow key clones the bottom element of every element tree contained in the body within its level.
What I intend to communicate with this piece is the possibility to create chaos using only a few simple elements and rules. With the html tags that create every single website available to us, I've created a system that generates permutations of these which a human would almost never create on their own, either because they're not useful or because they're too unwieldy. The result is glitch art and incomprehensibility.
Here are a few examples I made just playing around with this piece.
