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1. database

   database is an electronic reading device that deals with the inversed functionality of three electronic devices: a printer, a video camera and a database. Consequently, it raises issues about the erasure of text, the act of reading in real time (i.e., listening to a printed text), and physical databases. Through the opposition between presence x absence, recording x erasing, memory x forgetfulness, present x continuous time and reading x listening, we challenge the idea of the database as a non-linear and digital structure, and the printer as an output device as well as an information recorder. Critical for the connection of all these concepts is the idea of present time as a time that is always passing by.

   (Source: 2002 State of the Arts gallery description)

   Scott Rettberg - 30.05.2011 - 13:13

2. Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database

   Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database is a DVD release with a movie series generated with the Soft Cinema software.

   The three films presented on the DVD reference the familiar genres of cinema, the process by which they were created and the resulting aesthetics fully belong to the software age. They demonstrate the possibilities of soft(ware) cinema - a 'cinema' in which human subjectivity and the variable choices made by custom software combine to create films that can run infinitely without ever exactly repeating the same image sequences, screen layouts and narratives.

   Elisabeth Nesheim - 03.02.2012 - 16:42

3. Die imaginäre Bibliothek

   The 'Imaginary Library – Journeys into the rhetorical spaces of art-hyper-texts' appeared first in 1990 as an offline data-base, but is now also available in a HTML version. The program makes it possible to feed quotations and literary predecessors into personal thinking and writing processes as basic stock.

   Source: Rudolf Frieling on medienkunstnetz.de

   Patricia Tomaszek - 10.10.2012 - 16:40

4. The Poetry Cube

   This is a gateway for print poets into the e-poetry world, helping them translate their poetic text into a 3-dimensional, multi-linear an recombining format.

   The cube consists of four sides top, bottom, front, and back. Between each of this esides are four stanzas, or four sets of four lines. The poet writes a 16 line poem and enters it into the form. Thoe lines are then automatically entered into the cube and can be saved into the database. 

   When writing a poem for this cube, the poet must think of how the poem will fit and the recombine in the cube. As you turn the cube, the lines move as well.  For example the 1st, 5th, 9th and 13th lines form the top of the cube, with the shallow meiddle, deep middle and the back lines changing as well.

   Source: http://www.secrettechnology.com/poem_cube/poemcube.html

   Scott Rettberg - 16.10.2012 - 14:00

5. RACTER

   Racter is an artificial intelligence simulator from 1984. Similar to Eliza, Racter will converse with the user until boredom occurs. However, there's a twist - Racter is not quite sane! This makes for a lot of fun conversation.

   Racter was originally programmed on an early Apple computer. 

   Additional comments by developer William Chamberlain and Thomas Etter:
   RACTER was designed in a tongue-in-cheek manner, using remarkably minimal resources, to amuse and entertain its users, rather than to advance the research in natural language processing. In conversation, RACTER plays a very active, almost aggressive role, jumping from topic to topic in wild associations, ultimately producing the manner of - as its co-creator Tom Etter calls it - an "artificially insane" raconteur. Its authors publicize RACTER as an "intense young program [that] haunted libraries, discussion societies, and sleazy barrooms in a never-ending quest to achieve that most unreachable of dreams: to become a raconteur."

    

   Source: https://www.chatbots.org/chatbot/racter/

   Scott Rettberg - 09.02.2015 - 12:13

6. Basta con abrir las puertas de un hotel (Hotel Minotauro)

   Basta con abrir las puertas de un hotel (Hotel Minotauro)

   Daniele Giampà - 11.04.2015 - 15:49

7. El 27 || The 27th

   In Eugenio Tisselli's own words, "[t]he global financial dictatorship presents us with a paradox: while the economic transactions capable of shifting the destinies of entire countries are the result of performative language, it is language itself that, in turn, is transformed and subjected to the flows of financial markets." In 1917, Article 27 of the Mexican Constitution declared all land to be property of the people. This law protecting indigenous territories and communal modes of living was altered in 1992 as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed into existence. El 27 || The 27th procedurally allegorizes the slow encroachment of finance capitalism and linguistic colonialism in to Mexican political life. Ever day that the New York Stock Exchange closes with a positive percent, a section of Article 27 of the Mexican Constitution is translated from Spanish into a highly distorted computer-generated English. The work is a simply yet scathing expression of the loss of Mexican culture and political autonomy in the wake of NAFTA under the excesses of computational capitalism.

   Erik Aasen - 02.09.2016 - 09:50

8. Occupy London (with Cartoons)

   During the Occupy protest at St Pauls Cathedral in London, there were many drawings and paintings sellotaped to the walls; the area became a public Art gallery. Works full of slogans and messages, full of passion.

   While visiting the site, it occurred to me that many people want to express their views in this way, and contribute their own art work to share with Occupy London, to express their support and solidarity; but they couldn’t physically be there.

   I built an online cartoon tool to makes it easy to make political cartoons to support Occupy London. Once a week I printed them, went to St Pauls and put them on display. I also exhibited the cartoons in other places, such as cafes and bookshops, to get wider exposure.

   Well known artists contributed work, and we built up a big stock of ‘ready-made’ fantastic drawings and cartoons – for everyone to remix.

   The project is a collectively authored and networked satire, giving everyone a chance to participate/ support/ speak out/ in a creative way.

   Dave Miller - 10.11.2016 - 15:41

9. Heating Season

   Autorem tej książki jest miasto, a konkretnie Kraków w sezonie grzewczym 2016/2017. Mówi ona o zabrudzeniu języka, analogicznym do zanieczyszczenia powietrza, które występuje w Krakowie od października do marca. Producentami tekstów są zarówno nowi mieszkańcy miasta (studenci i studentki pierwszego roku), osoby żyjące w nim od pokoleń, jak i postaci z awangardowego środowiska artystycznego. Poszczególne partie książki powstały w wyniku zastosowania różnych technik pisarskich, w tym uwzględniających zbiorowego nadawcę. Obejmują one: ankiety przeprowadzone wśród losowo wybranych użytkowników telefonów stacjonarnych, zapisy sesji obserwowania smogu (tzw. smogwatching), niezapowiedzianą klasówkę w krakowskiej uczelni, smogowe śledztwo przeprowadzone w mediach społecznościowych i transkrypcje pogody.

   Piotr Marecki - 26.04.2018 - 17:42