The Impermanence Agent
To read this work, the reader had to browse the internet through a proxy server which kept track of visited websites and launched small windows in the readers browser, while the reader was viewing other sites, telling fragments of a story throughout the week. As the week progressed, the story would replace parts of the original text and images with text and images from sites the reader had visited. The work is no longer accessible.
[....] a Web-based storytelling agent that customizes its story for each user. The Agent is both a critique and employment of a number of Web technologies and mythologies. It begins with a story of remembrance and loss, a collage-story merging family history and personal narrative into relatively traditional fiction. Information from the user's Web browsing is used to customize this story, and this customization continues until almost none of The Agent's story remains.
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