How can one play with their rental agreement?

The Document is designed to reside outside of time and politics. The Document is often presented as an immutable projection of authority. It's banal triviality disguising the violence and control that it is designed to legitimise.

My rental agreement sits-perfectly dust-free and unopened-in my downloads folder. Yet the clauses it contains retain at best an ambient, and at worst a direct and evicting control over the daily decisions of life as a renter.

This project aims to subvert the enforced displacement of The Document's politicality- make poems with your pay-slip. It aims to counter The Document's imperial language by remixing it and in doing so, obviates the primacy of officiation and obfuscation within its design.

Throughout this website are sketches and tools I have designed and coded (with the assistance of Copilot) in order to explore this project's aims and the resulting aesthetic/s which emerge.

The Document is malleable.

The Technics:
What is the methodology of all these tools? The user is asked to upload a pdf document. It could be anything, as long as it contains text. Then the pdf's text content is extracted including it's strings of characters and position coordinates relative to the page. The string is then further extracted and sorted into nouns, verbs, adverb and adjectives. These extracted and sorted terms are then placed into randomised layouts which form stickers, or emulations of the pdf's original layout in order to generate books. One can even animate these permutations and combinations. In performing these transformations The Document is engaged in a frivolous, iterative, playful manner. The architecture of authority is rendered strange–recomposed as fragments of poetic possibility.

I encourage anyone and everyone to play with these tools, download them, re-purpose them, break them, fork them.

This project is directly inspired by Chris Lee's Designing History: Documents and the Design Imperative to Immutability, Karen Ann Donnachie's and Andy Simionato's Library of Nonhuman Books and Aleatory poetry. The Art Institute of Chicago's API, 98.css and jspdf libraries are also utilised in this project.
I would like to give my sincere thanks to these works, their authors and contributors.