has antecedents in the automatic writing of the surrealists and the cut ups of burroughs and gysin but is distinguished from these practices by the use of computer programmes to create, disrupt or reorder texts producing new "emergent" meanings for the human mind behind the reading eye. Here the computer and the programme, function as a kind of external unconscious.
Comment: Hmm -I used it in a couple of posts to Rhizome and elsewhere. It hasn't caught on - but I think its a runner.
