Text Document out of Focus

Text Document out of Focus, 2008
(JavaScript restoration of Flash original, 2024)

A text editor or word processor is an archetypical piece of software, a white sheet with a blinking cursor, ready to type, erase, copy and paste. The blur on the other hand is an artefact from a very different media culture, that of photography and by extension film. The out of focus effect is physically a produce of lens based media, and even our own biological lenses.

The work puts the focal depth of the observing lens on a plane far away from the screen, dissolving the always pristine crispness and sharpness of the computer interface in an absent yet fully interactive state.