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Erasures.net sounds like an interesting project which builds off of the method of Tom Phillips's The Humument.

The Humument--which came up at a phenomenal dinner last night with Jim Andrews, RIT professor Linda Reinfeld and her husband Don, Liz Lawley, and RIT professor John Roche and his wife Mary--is one of the most intriguing texts I have ever read and, to me, completely exhausts the notion of the book. For those who haven't run into The Humument: Phillips has taken a Victorian novel, W.H. Mallock's A Human Document, and has since created a everchanging epic poem (currently in its 3rd edition) by painting and repainting over the novel's original text to highlight and connect particular words as poetry. Phillips's "word bubble" aesthetic was behind one of my earlier attempts at banner art: the short flash work "Central Two."

Now, erasures.net collects image submissions (animated or not) of digital equivilents of Phillips's method. I'm planning on participating, and I'm interested in seeing how such a print-oriented project will fair when ported to and expanded in another medium.