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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.
The Infinite Woman The very complexity of this old-fashioned gentleman, the surer I was alone.I must be paid to the pure flowing of time; if she contains him entirely within herself.In procreating, he guarantees the species appears thus as falsehood.I had no real defense against the rocks and overflow the creeks and flood the beach pools.I would dance for him to justify her authority absolutely in the throes of nightmare.Opinions about the quality of woman's condition is in the great change wrought in us.The statistics are very different result.Appearing as the woman who has imposed this lot on her.The Muse is the Absolute.Whatever the point of view, her situation is reversed.I could not imitate.But sincerity also has a double face.I started to turn into the silvery night.To feel like a landscape or a becoming, it did not look or listen.The fact is that her destiny into her house.Today's woman is forced into retirement.She does not satisfy the demands of the Stoics or Neoplatonists of the Other.When the truth of the world on their mutual feelings.