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Click on a sentence to add it to the canvas. You can adjust the speed of the Infinite Scroller and randomness of the generated sentences in the settings above.
Canvas Help
Drag sentences around in the canvas to rearrange them. Click on individual words to erase them, and click them again to restore them. Drag sentences into the trash area to remove them.
About The Infinite Woman
The Infinite Woman is an interactive digital erasure poetry platform by Katie Schaag.
As a feminist critique and artistic intervention, the project remixes excerpts from Edison Marshall’s novel The Infinite Woman (1950) and Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy book The Second Sex (1949).
An n-gram algorithm procedurally generates infinitely scrolling sentences that recombine and recontextualize the two source texts’ vocabulary and syntactic patterns.
Users can select sentences from the infinitely scrolling text to send to the canvas workspace, where they can erase words and rearrange sentences.
Meanwhile, fog slowly erases the screen – materializing “the misty mirror of the eternal feminine” (Marshall/Beauvoir).
This platform was designed and implemented by Alayna Panlilio, Ryan Power, Josh Terry, Alex Yang, and Jeffrey Zhang at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2019, with Katie Schaag’s creative direction.