Ariss Project

The Ariss Project was an experiment conducted in the early days of cloud computing to try to determine the shape of dreams by bringing together various disparate stories into one vague conglomerate whole. It took the form of a short telling, introduced by a listless dreamer who was nothing more than the illusion she believed the world to be, that after its more tangible start immediately jumped into a river and fell apart. Some theorists put forth that this was a possible reference to the genre of deconstructiveness, though due to the lack of a bulldozer and the watery nature of rivers washing away all the evidence, there is no proof one way or the other.

Ariss aimed to achieve its goals not through its content, though that was shady enough, but by telekinesis, picking up and subtly shifting the surroundings of the viewer while the vague interconnectedness of the largely arbitrary and shady words served as a distraction.

The project failed.