Medium: Interactive website (HTML, CSS, Javascript)

Dimensions: Variable

Description: Palimpsest is an interactive, text-based web experience that seeks to capture the intimate and destabilizing act of reading in the digital age. It asks: What becomes of personal, meaningful writing when the boundaries between author and algorithm begin to blur?  

The work draws on postmodernist literature, seminal research on machine learning’s pitfalls, and glitch feminism to explore how language drifts, fragments, and reforms when the boundaries between author and algorithm blur. Through behaviors like drifting letters , fog-like visual effects, and live speech-to-text overlays, the piece unsettles linear reading and invites users into a space of multiplicity and instability. Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, Palimpsest functions as both artwork and prototype: a speculative tool for imagining what public, poetic AI infrastructures might feel like. It is designed for readers who have a complicated relationship with the screen — those caught between longing for the solitude of books and the constant pull of digital attention.

Visit the piece here