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onewordmovie.ch

I spent hours and hours thinking of words to type into this search. The program allows the person to create a movie by typing in a subject to search, as if you were doing something in altavista, or google. It takes images from the web and creates a movie. Depeneding what you are searching, sometimes you get extremely poignant juxtapositions. Besides a creative way of wasting your time, is this truly a work of multimedia?

The very fact that it allows you to create a movie allows a shift to occur between reader and writer or in this case viewer and director. How much of this movie is actually yours and how much is it the person who developed this program. Another dimension to this is whether or not the internet, and everyone who posts pictures dealing with your search word had something to do with this work of art. Which brings up the inherent global aspects of this piece. The internet is an extremely interactive and global space. People from everywhere can post things, edit and search. Every person who adds to the internet will somehow add to the composite of images that may show up in "your" movie.