At home on Caydance's studio table, John Cage's First Meeting of the Satie Society -- printed on continuous feed computer paper -- was several inches thick. If unfolded, this work that Carl Loeffler had left her before he departed for Austria, would require a football field, but it was possible to peruse it with an unfolding process reminiscent of the reading of certain medieval manuscripts. Indeed, Cage himself had referred to his homage to composer Erik Satie as an electronic manuscript.

When displayed on Art Com Electronic Network on The WELL, it appeared on a computer screen menu, where by entering a number at a prompt, a reader could select each of the ten sections, one at a time. Thus, although on the computer screen, each reader could clearly select where to begin, the printout followed one reader's path through the work. To show her students how this worked, Caydance would bring her own computer and modem to the classroom and use the telephone to connect online. She wanted to demonstrate not only how John Cage's work could be read from a printout, but also how it could be read on the screen -- and discuss how these reading experiences differed -- as well as discuss if artists books could be created with this technology and how screen-based interactive reading might impact reading in the future.