Re: <nettime> Contents of nettime-l digest Suggestion for discussion: Daily Noise ? a browser-based net art project

[Guido D'Apuzzo via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

Hi SG,

Thank you for your attentive reading and thoughtful questions — they help
me articulate aspects of the work that intentionally remain quiet on the
surface.

On structure and the relation between words

The words displayed on the homepage are extracted in real time from an ANSA
news feed. They are not manually curated and they do not preserve their
original syntactic or narrative structure. Each word appears independently,
maintaining the logic of randomness.

Their proximity on the screen does not encode semantic relation in a
traditional sense. Instead, proximity produces accidental constellations —
temporary semantic collisions. What emerges is not meaning in the editorial
sense, but mediated noise: fragments of public discourse detached from
hierarchy, urgency, or narrative framing.

If the user remains on the homepage without interacting, additional titles
are progressively added. The system continues to accumulate fragments over
time. In this way, stillness also becomes a gesture. The page thickens
slowly with informational residue.

On interaction and behavioral structure

The work operates through three simple gestures:

– A short tap refreshes the homepage.
– A long press (more than one second) opens a secondary minimal interface:
a white page displaying a progressively increasing user log number and a
randomly extracted word from the same ANSA feed.
– From that second page, another long press returns the user to the
homepage and automatically downloads a screenshot of the white interface.

This downloaded image becomes a portable trace. The user may archive it,
share it, manipulate it, or ignore it. The work therefore extends beyond
the browser into distributed circulation.

The log is progressive. It registers interaction cumulatively. The number
is not personalized but sequential, emphasizing collective behavioral
accumulation rather than individual identity.

On the secondary interface

The secondary interface is intentionally minimal and gesture-based. It is
accessed exclusively through long press. There are no visible buttons or
instructions. The absence of guidance is deliberate — discovery becomes
part of the work’s temporality.

If it was not immediately visible, that is likely due to the interaction
needing a sustained press rather than a quick tap.

On accessibility and potential installation

At present, I conceive Daily Noise primarily as a browser-based work. Its
natural habitat is the web — instability, refresh, latency, and user
gesture are integral to its structure.

However, I am also interested in the possibility of a physical installation
where the homepage remains open and accumulates noise in real time. In that
context, the long-press gesture could be preserved on a touchscreen
interface, allowing viewers to generate and download traces within a shared
physical space.

In such a setting, the tension between public informational flow and
embodied gesture might become even more visible.

On the absence of images

The decision to work exclusively with text is intentional. The reduction to
words foregrounds informational abstraction and avoids the immediate
emotional charge that images carry. That said, your suggestion of
integrating shared images from the WWW is compelling and opens a potential
future variation — perhaps as a parallel branch rather than a modification
of the current structure.

Daily Noise is, at its core, an exploration of mediated randomness,
behavioral residue, and the transformation of everyday digital gestures —
refresh, hold, wait — into conceptual acts.

I appreciate your engagement and would be very interested in continuing the
conversation.

Best,
Guido

Il mar 17 feb 2026, 01:09 Sawyer Gracer via nettime-l <
nettime-l@lists.nettime.org> ha scritto:

> Hi GD,
>
> I find your net art project quite interesting. I'm curious how you put it
> together/ if the words on a page have any relation to one another, and if
> so, if their proximity has something to do with said relation. I am also
> curious how you dream of this being accessible to viewers, do you want this
> to just be a site that one explores, or would you want it to be accessible
> in a physical space, already pulled up, for viewers to access.
>
> I also am not finding the secondary minimal interface you've mentioned.
> This piece makes me want to see a version of it with shared images from the
> WWW.
>
> Best,
> SG
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