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1. Taroko Gorge Remixed: Repetition and Difference in Machine Texts

   In 2009 Nick Montfort wrote a short program--first in Python and later in Javascript--that generated an infinite nature poem inspired by the stunning Taroko Gorge in Taiwan. While Montfort never explicitly released the code of “Taroko Gorge” under a free software license, it was readily available to anyone who viewed the HTML source of the poem’s web page. Lean and elegantly coded, with self-evident algorithms and a clearly demarcated word list, “Taroko Gorge” lends itself to reappropriation. Simply altering the word list (the paradigmatic axis) creates an entirely different randomly generated poem, while the underlying sentence structure (the syntagmatic axis) remains the same. Very quickly Scott Rettberg remixed the original poem, replacing its naturalistic vocabulary (“crags,” “basins,” “rocks,” “mist,” and so on) with words drawn from what Rettberg imagined to be a counterpoint to Montfort’s meditative nature scene--a garage in Toyko, cluttered with consumer objects. J.R.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 18.06.2012 - 13:36

2. PO.EX (Interview with Manuel Portela)

   Manuel Portela collaborates with the PO.EX archive of Portuguese media poetry.

   As a scholar, he explores reflexive qualities in reading operations. For Portela, formal analysis of the processes of reading and viewing reveal a continuity that transcends apparent differences in distribution technology: meaning, recursive as a worm, burrows into the mind on a path of words.

   For a thorough discussion of these issues, see Manuel`s book "Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines" (MIT Press, 2013, forthcoming).

   Interview 2012-06-22 at ELO Morgantown.

   (Source: David Jhave Johnston, Vimeo)

   Scott Rettberg - 12.02.2013 - 15:23

3. XS, S, M, L: Creative Text Generators of Different Scales

   Creative text generation projects of different sizes (in terms of lines of code and length of development time) are described. “Extra-small,” “small,” “medium,” and “large” projects are discussed as participating in the practice of creative computing differently. Different ways in which these projects have circulated and are being used in the community of practice are identified. While large-scale projects have clearly been important in advancing creative text generation, the argument presented here is that the other types of projects are also valuable and that they are undervalued (particularly in computer science and strongly related fields) by current structures of higher education and academic communication – structures which could be changed.

   (Source: Author's abstract)

   Scott Rettberg - 19.02.2013 - 12:20

4. Autoautor, Autotexto, Autoleitor: O Poema como Base de Dados

   This article contains an introduction to contemporary Portuguese electronic literature, focusing on works by Rui Torres. Starting from texts by other 20th-century authors, Rui Torres’ generative works recode their source texts by opening up their syntax and semantics to digital materiality and programmed signification. Randomized algorithms, permutational procedures
   

   Alvaro Seica - 14.10.2013 - 11:41

5. Autoauthor, Autotext, Autoreader: The Poem as Self-assembled Database

   This article contains an introduction to contemporary Portuguese electronic literature, focusing on works by Rui Torres. Starting from texts by other 20th-century authors, Rui Torres’ generative works recode their source texts by opening up their syntax and semantics to digital materiality and programmed signification. Randomized algorithms, permutational procedures
   

   Alvaro Seica - 25.10.2013 - 13:15

6. XS, S, M, L Creative Text Generators of Different Scales

   Creative text generation projects of different sizes (in terms of lines of code and length
   of development time) are described. “Extra-small,” “small,” “medium,” and “large”
   projects are discussed as participating in the practice of creative computing differently.
   Different ways in which these projects have circulated and are being used in the
   community of practice are identified. While large-scale projects have clearly been
   important in advancing creative text generation, the argument presented here is that
   the other types of projects are also valuable and that they are undervalued (particularly
   in computer science and strongly related fields) by current structures of higher
   education and academic communication – structures which could be changed.

   (Source: Author's Abstract)

   J. R. Carpenter - 21.12.2014 - 13:06