"APORIA" is a collaborative hypertext work done between Chicago and New York over a period of three weeks. The World Wide Web and the technologies that support it have created opportunities for explorations between artists and t(h)inkers, vis-a-vis text-based communication and file transfer protocols over network lines.

The web browser has created an interactive canvas space which can be shared and viewed simultaneously by multiple persons. The medium itself has built into it interesting tools which can be used or subverted to create new circumstances and anomalies. The forms feature in most browsers allow for various types of input, to be later processed and interpreted. The scalable window, which is now a convention in today's graphical user interfaces, allows for interesting elastic properties affecting text and other contents within the frame.

And with lower-level code to control the processing of input and output within the browser environment, another level of interactivity is possible within the medium itself, which extends beyond the passivity of the 'browsing' experience familiar to the present use of the web.

"APORIA" is a website where visitors may enter, create a representation of themselves, and leave traces of their activities, all the while contributing to the ever evolving composition of the project itself. By design, the site cannot be the same site upon subsequent visits. As long as there are visitors, "APORIA" extends itself. Perhaps indefinitely.

"APORIA" is Netscape 1.1b3 biased. Graphics and forms-capability required.

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