a small register · of the synthesis pieces
a set of pages composed not as rooms but as readings of the labyrinth — each one a different mode of paying attention. in homage to noemata.net, whose long, patient practice is the model.
a thirteen-article synthesis of the noemata project; each article a small doctrine of net-art practice, with its echo in sometemple.
essay · 13 articles iia page entirely of margins. the body is deliberately empty — marginalia, footnotes, errata, running header, index. paratext as work.
experimental layout iiia sustained walk through the whole labyrinth in one document. twenty minutes' reading. one paragraph per wing, woven.
long-form prose ivfive letters between the keeper and m. —, 1957–1962. epistolary fiction; each letter links the rooms it describes.
epistolary · 5 lettersa live utc clock. with each civil insertion the clock pauses and offers a small prepared poem. a tribute to noemata's leap-second project.
live clock · interactive via deterministic live feed: nine observations of what the labyrinth is doing right now, keyed to the current minute.
live feed · deterministic viia small telegraph composes a fresh telemata at every visit, citing five rooms in the noemic stop-and-go syntax.
telegraph · procedural viiia swinging pendulum, beating once every four seconds. with every minute it names a new room, deterministically.
visual clocka single CSS-drawn door. click it; it opens once, onto one room of the labyrinth, drawn at random.
chance · single-use xa small mechanism for noemic re-spellings — type any word, receive five plausible rearrangements with small comment.
generative · brfxxcc xisay anything; receive a brief, italic reply citing one or two rooms. in the manner of the noemata responder.
dialogue · grammar xiia small CSS kitchen garden in summer. ten plants, each named; click any plant for its small biography.
illustrated · interactivefifty headwords of the labyrinth's invented or repurposed vocabulary — a small dictionary, with cross-references.
lexicon · 50 entries xiva small printable pocket booklet for the new visitor — sections, a hand-drawn map, twelve tools.
booklet · printable xva room deliberately left as it is — minimal, ambient, no content.
ambient · minimal xvian inventory of rooms the labyrinth refers to but has not built — useful absences, fertile ground.
paratext · catalogue xviia transparent record of how the labyrinth was built — 25 waves, with dates and themes.
meta · ledger xviiia small telephone exchange — twenty-four jacks, each connecting to a central wing of the labyrinth.
interactive · navigation xixa window left ajar — clouds drift across the pane; small lines of text pass slowly upward.
ambient · animated xxa long perspective corridor in CSS — eight doors visible, hover for the room beyond.
3d · interactive
together: twenty modes of reading the labyrinth, all variations on the noemic claim that what surrounds the work is also the work.
see also the original 14 tribute rooms · the atlas · all tools.