| Sumario: | Is a study on institutionalized tools for presenting information, featuring numerous forms of misreading and corruption native to those systems -- including automated captioning and stabilization, noise removal, layers of lossy compression, and the broader assumption that a PowerPoint slide show can communicate any knowledge worth knowing -- as well as the unintended poetics that emerge from such misreadings. Created during a slow and dry workshop introducing a particular unnamed software tool, I aimed to discover what amusing or enlightening artifacts might emerge by maximizing the software's features and faults and turning it on itself. This process achieved "deeper" meaninglessness as I had the software process the sound in dramatic ways and attempt to transcribe it again, yielding two layers of captions, moving in and out of view thanks to the hopeless attempts of an automatic image stabilizing feature.
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