The Minotaur Project
“The Minotaur Project” is a four part poem, which reimagines the mythological Minotaur as a combination of human and machine. Each canto explores the Minotaur’s struggle to craft an identity that reconciles its human and machine selves.
“Canto 1: The Cartesian Chant of Making,” is made up of three layers. The top layer consists of six couplets that fade in and out, one line at a time. The final line breaks the pattern, appearing alone. The couplets are laid out in three columns. The narrow middle column displays a stanza consisting of flickering 1s and 0s.
The second layer is a 6 x 6 grid of couplets. When the reader mouses over a grid square, the artist’s digitally altered voice reads the couplet and the square momentarily fades to reveal a third layer–a photograph of the artist’s ear combined with a computer’s circuit board. This underlying layer can only be seen while listening. When the cursor moves, the square becomes opaque and thus, the hybrid human/machine body is always partially obscured.
The New Disease
A Journal of Narrative Pathology
Published 2003 – 2004, this fictitious online medical journal featured a collection of stories that examined the internet’s potential to become a breeding ground for psychogenic disease and misinformation.
The project was the collaborative effort of writers Devin Booth and Kim White and designer Michael McCaffery.
Kim White 