The Impermanence Agent
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The Impermanence Agent (1998 - 2002) was an electronic literature piece that provided a web agent that used each user's browsers to present a story based on that browsing.[1] Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Brion Moss, a.c. chapman, and Duane Whitehurst created this work in 1998.
The agent added a small browser window to display the original story. When users browsed, the window would add details gained from each page to which the users went.[1] However, the agent also alters the pages that the user browses. Nick Montfort gives the example that a funeral image might appear in The New York Times.[2]
Noah Wardrip-Fruin, one of the authors, explains that "The browser is approached as a daily computer tool, in which the artwork becomes part of the daily browsing experience."[3]
