soft encyclopedia.(http://soft-encyclopedia.net) explores the web’s intrinsic network nature as a narrative tool. By claiming hypertext’s non-sequential and non-linear structures as an antidote to an alienating, heroic, and causal mode of reasoning dominating Western perception and belief system, soft encyclopedia enables connections between links that initially seemed distant. It fosters associations and opens up new perspectives, constantly (re)linking and (re)shaping truths. As a different kind of narrative, as a container “[...] holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us.”(link)Conceived as the dawn of a new world order by its creators, the web arises from the same systematic essence inherent to the fabric of existence—as a network of connections and interdependencies. These thoughts are made tangible through an installation centered around a hypertext document, where words evolve into a poem, a story, a lore, a spell, a ritual. Composed by the user’s navigation between hyperlinks, the document’s URL becomes the carrier of the narrative. Read my ba thesis(here).
The work was displayed as part of the exhibition fluid bodies on nonlinear underscores at K-LAB in Mainz and was also included in the BAMA exhibition at Mainz University of Applied Sciences.