The book Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino was based on the idea of text permutation - the transition from the traditional static order of the codex book to the dynamic process of the post-digital text. In the history, grid is connected with order, regulation but also control (organization in military controlled cities). Italo Calvino applied a permutation scheme, which brought nearly unfinished text parts reorganization possibilities.
A travelling based on Nomad principle which is connected with moving, with maps and finally with rhizome.
The map is an image of the world, and also the arrangement based on Deleuze’s rhizom. I made the diagram of Calvino´s text using order of Permutation scheme of the story, theoretical principle of a city mental image (Lynch, 1960) and Venice map. The diagram was used as scheme of how text was ordered in interactive interpretation into 4 walls gallery space. The real material of Venice, such as pictures, noises and Calvino’s text were mixed together and trigged by spectators walk. The spectator´s imagination could enjoy Calvino’s idea of a text combinatory. The algorithm opened a text arrangement free of static grid, but we couldn't change delimitation of square shaped medium. Rethinking of a new form of written objects is not as important as process in which unfinished possible arrangements, caused by “swerves” (Brassett, 2017), can be organised.
For it the pattern which is organized a text has to be transient.

2018: Authors intermedia exhibition, (Ne)viditeľné mestá, gallery SATELIT SCD Bratislava, Slovakia
https://old.scd.sk/?galeria&galeria=neviditelne-mesta-16-august-2018-29-august-2018

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