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Here is a new stir fry text. This is by Amos Satterlee. Amos is taking a course called “Irony and Utopia: History of Computer Art” at a funky U. My work is not on the syllabus but Amos found my work on his own and made this stir fry on his own. The Stir Fry Texts is an ongoing project I started in 1999. Occasionally people create new stir frys, email me about them, and I publish them. Currently there are 8, in total.

Amos says about his stir fry that:

This project is based on two web sources. First is an analysis by Anne-Marie Schleiner of gender roles in the Lara Croft Tomb Raiders II video game. The second is a JavaScript cut up engine by Jim Andrews that powers the Stir Fry Texts. The engine causes word segments in the reference texts to twitch and change as the mouse moves over them, replacing segments from one text with a segment from another.

Schleiner says about her approach to understanding the game:

“…the Lara Croft archetype is best served by using an analytical modus operandum that is cyborgian, piece-meal, and polymorphous. This analysis does not privilege one theoretical lens antithetically to others; its shape is closer to a multidimensional matrix stack of interlocking data with alternating gender matrices pushing upward to the surface.”

The Stir Fry engine seems a perfect tool to examine the five different lenses Schleiner identifies.

Mouse over the text to stir fry.

Select different levels of fineness of the cut up.

Rotate through the full text of each lens.

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