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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <p align="center">This is the no frames version of the speedfactory page. Click <a href="name.htm">here</a> to see visit contributions..</p> <table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#98FF98"> <tr bgcolor="#000000" valign="top" align="center"> <td> <p align="center"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#3,0,0,0" width="200" height="45"> <param name="SRC" value="flash/speedtitle.swf" alt="speedfactory title: flash animation"> <embed src="flash/speedtitle.swf" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200" height="45"> </embed> </object><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3" color="#000000"> </font></p> </td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#FF0000" valign="bottom"> <td height="55"> <p align="right"><font color="#FFFF00" face="Courier New, Courier, mono">More details? <a href="mailto:bernard.cohen@ntu.ac.uk">Contact Bernard Cohen</a></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><font size="4" face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><b>What is Speedfactory?</b></font> <p><font face="Courier New, Courier, mono" size="4"><i>S</i></font><font size="3" face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><font size="2">peedfactory is a writing project/method/drive devised by <a href="http://www.mcs.mq.edu.au/Staff/mwark/home/homepage.html" target="_blank">McKenzie Wark</a> and <a href="http://www.poetrykit.org/iv98/kinsella.htm" target="_blank">John Kinsella</a>. Participants in Speedfactory 1 were Wark, Kinsella, <a href="http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/deep" target="_blank">Terri-ann White</a> and Bernard Cohen. Our rules were simple: in pairs, someone emailed exactly 300 words to another. The second person had to mail exactly 300 words back within 48 hours, and so on until we decided to stop.</font></font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><i><font size="3">B</font></i>ernard Cohen co-ordinated a superspeed, compact version of this writing game at trAce on 24th November 1999. Around 60 people signed up from 15 countries around the world. Most completed Phase 1; fewer stayed for the second course. <br> </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><i><font color="#FF0000">P</font></i></font><font size="2" face="Courier New, Courier, mono" color="#FF0000">hase 1</font><font size="2" face="Courier New, Courier, mono"> of the compact version suggested a 50 word target and a twenty-minute posting time. Near the day, Terri-ann White and Bernard Cohen provided each pair of participants with a trigger word. </font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><i><font size="3">F</font></i>rom there, results from the inital phase were posted to a webpage. These then formed a resource for <font color="#FF0000">Phase 2</font>, which ran from 1st to 8th December 1999. Once again, this exercise had simple rules: take what you like, do what you want with it, and send about 500 words to Bernard on 8th December. </font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><i><font size="3">T</font></i>his page indexes pieces of work from phases 1 and 2.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><i><font color="#FF0000" size="3">P</font></i><font color="#FF0000">hase 3</font> is a thought experiment about writing and the internet: Who owns these pieces? How autonomous are they? How are they linked? </font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><i><font size="3">I</font></i>magine a set of links from each of the works to many others, links which highlight agreements, contradictions, shared and disputed aesthetics and ideologies, links which complement, juxtapose, argue and index. The internet could be a collection of semi-autonomous cells, an electronic sponge (porifera, I mean, not "kitchen").</font></p> <p align="right"><font face="Courier New, Courier, mono" size="2"><i>Bernard Cohen,<br> trAce,<br> December 1999</i></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3" color="#000000"></font></p> </td> </tr> </table> <p>  </p> </body>