Richard Fisher interviews one of the artists behind The ARPANET Dialogues, an archive of imaginary conversations between politicians, academics and artists "as they could have taken place over ARPANET, the US military computer network that led to the modern internet":
Each of us – and invited guests when necessary – played the part of one of the characters. Without rehearsing, we simply met in an instant messaging chat and had a conversation, letting the discussion go where it may. We trust that the structure of the project is strong enough; we need only capture the flavour of the characters in order for it work. The dialogues are published verbatim without any editing.
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