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Taylor is a Webmonkey contributing editor and a mild-mannered technologist who freelances for Web design firms across the Net. Even though he's never been photographed or seen with Captain Cursor, he insists that they are indeed two separate people.

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For a long time, I've been interested in nonlinear performance - events that move past the traditional dramatic structure and convey a message using more abstract methods. I tend to focus on the elements of a performance, rather than on its meaning. I'll provide the venue, the performers, and the methods; it's the audience's job to take something from it. I've experimented with this concept in everything from theater to improvisational dance to raves. Now I'm on the Web.

Earlier this year I attended a Nam June Paik exhibition in San Jose, California. The exhibit was a sensory overload of television images embedded in sculpture. The images changed in such a rapid-fire manner that they lost all individual meaning and assumed a global texture. Right around that time, we learned that animated GIFs would work in Netscape Navigator 2.0, so I produced a quick little Web page called 10-89 that sequenced thousands of GIF89 animations together on a page. I wanted to see how multiple repetitions of small (in terms of file size) objects could be used to fill a browser window and create a similar overwhelming effect.

A few months later I attended the Imagination conference here in San Francisco, where Brian Eno talked about this new direction in art that he was keen on: Generative art. Here, the artist sets the initial parameters for a piece, but surrenders ultimate control by creating pieces that are continually evolving. This concept expresses much of what I've been trying to achieve with my little artistic experiments.

So when I got a chance to do a Demo, I decided to flesh out the 10-89 piece I'd done previously. This current incarnation uses JavaScript to shuffle the images around on the page, and to change the types of objects that are shown without reloading the page. I've also experimented with creating a stage that always fits the user's screen, with no wasted space.

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Software: Netscape Navigator 3.0+ or IE 4.0+ with JavaScript turned on

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