Codeswitching

Theodoros Chiotis

Artist Statement

CodeSwitching 23µg imagines hypertext at the time when the Web has evolved into Web[∞].
CodeSwitching 23µg attempts to illustrate what will happen if the DNA sequence is replaced with the Dewey Decimal System.
CodeSwitching 23µg establishes how a hypertext might also function as a T-cell receptor complex.
CodeSwitching 23µg follows the information hygiene protocol.
CodeSwitching 23µg is an attempt to come up with impossible, non-existent information technologies.
CodeSwitching 23µg imagines a society where the self has long been proved as fiction; hypertexts in this society are marketed, packaged and sold as events.
CodeSwitching 23µg is part of a series of hypertexts called “10^–43: Blan©k Fiction”.

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Biography

Theodoros Chiotis has studied at the universities of London and Oxford. He has worked as part of a research group developing social software for use in the classroom; he has also taught literature and language. He has won two literary awards in the past. His research blog (in Greek) can be found at http://polleslexeis.wordpress.com.