Abstract | Blackbox is a poetry application designed to explore coincidence, destabalization of language, and indeterminancy as means of generating poetry. There are two formats. The first format allows the user to upload a 200 word block of text or choose to have a random 200 word excerpt loaded from the program's archives. The words are loaded into a 10(h)x20(w) grid concealed by a blackout layer. Users can click on any part of the blackout layer to reveal the word beneath. The user decides when finished. The process creates a poem of hybrid authorship between the chosen text and user that is continually destabalized by the users blind choice of word. The second format is similar to the first put accepts a jpeg scan of any page as the base. Users remove parts of the blackout layer using a tool similar to the spray brush tool in Adobe Photoshop. Concept stills:
