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1. Completely Automated

   I have formally performed “Completely Automated” on stage at a few conferences/venues and I think it could be a good fit for HASTAC’s themes. I would be very excited to perform it as part of an evening of performances. Total run-time is a duration of 15 minutes and it occurs in three parts. In the first part, I do a performative reading of a “historical” document that I have forged. To create the language of the forgery, I programmed a computer program to run a text analysis on a group of historical law tracts. I then skimmed the results and authored my own version of an early law tract. Calling on theater training, I perform this poetic text. In the second stage, the live performance overlaps and blends in with a short video that tells the story of how this forged document is digitally archived on google books as an “authentic” text. This video is blended with voice over of poetic text taken from the document. In the last stage I give a final performative reading of the changes that were made to the document when a group of users prepared it for upload in the digital archives.

   Stig Andreassen - 20.03.2012 - 15:14

2. Writing To Be Found In Common Tongues

   Recently, my work has been concerned with using quasi-algorithmic techniques to generate texts from the natural language processing affordances of so-called network services, such as internet search. For example, I search for short sequences of words and then, from the ‘results’ returned, I collect—as a human reader—some ‘preferred’ longer sequence that contains the sequence originally searched. I then select another short sequence of words from this result and continue, iteratively, to produce ‘writing to be found,’ composed and stitched together into extended pieces of text, substantial passages of words, that I have chosen and ‘composed,’ although they are, in every instance or event of inscription, written by someone or something other than myself. In related engagements, for the seed sequences that supply my searches, I may gather them from a text that was written by another human, from a well-known text, from one that has been ‘authored.’ I may try to find these same short sequences of words, independently and coincidentally ‘authored’ by other humans or other writing processes on the indexed network.

   Scott Rettberg - 27.04.2013 - 23:18

3. Four Guillemets

   This event investigates how one reads a literary text in the digital environment. The presentation is presented in several parts, as follows. The poem is meant to extend the idea of poetic structure from a static/print environment to the structures of digital language. It means to move it forward, not dizzied by technical effects, but along a trajectory that thoughtfully moves structures into New Media environments.

   1. A general introduction. Each part of the four-part digital poem, “Four Guillemets”, is composed in sections that vary in their content on a periodic basis, indeed during the actual reading of the text. The introduction asks participants to listen to the text and to fill out response pages. Ideas about what the text means, what lines are memorable, what the “larger” meanings of the text might be.

   Scott Rettberg - 27.04.2013 - 23:25

4. Evolution

   Evolution is a online artwork that emulates the writing and compositions of poet and artist Johannes Heldén. The application analyzes a set of all published text- and sound-work by the artist and generates a continuously evolving poem that simulates Heldéns style : in vocabulary, the spacing in-between words, syntax. In this performance, the digital version of artist meets the original. The aim is to raise questions about authenticity, about the future, about physics and science fiction.

   (Source: http://chercherletexte.org/en/performance/evo-lution/)

   Alvaro Seica - 25.09.2013 - 12:22