Roman Palimpsest Forum

This project was both my final thesis project for the class Rome: Republic to Renaissance given by Drs. Linda Mitchell and Fionna Tolhurst, and my first experiment in multiuser web design.

The project takes the form of an unconventional online forum, based in Macromedia Flash with server-side scripting in PHP to enable user interaction. The forum attempts to question the "preciousness" of art objects by forcing the user to deconstruct my writings in order to construct their own.

Amusingly, the end result unintentionally resembles the functionality of refrigerator poetry magnets.

• launch the roman palimpsest forum (The forum is not saving changes since the move, please check back later.)
• read the accompanying paper