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1. First Screening: Computer Poems

   A suite of a dozen kinetic poems programmed in Apple BASIC. Later, as the first versions became inaccessible, the works were recreated in HyperCard in the early 1990s (after bpNichol's death), and then in 2007 recreated in javascript for the web, and simultaneously the original BASIC and Hypercard files were republished for download.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 08.02.2011 - 21:04

2. Mindwheel

   Mindwheel

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 07.03.2011 - 13:02

3. The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed

   With the exception of this introduction, the writing in this book was all done by a computer. The book has been proofread for spelling but otherwise is completely unedited. The fact that a computer must somehow communicate its activities to us, and that frequently it does so by means of programmed directives in English, does suggest the possibility that we might be able to compose programming that would enable the computer to find its way around a common language "on its own" as it were. The specifics of the communication in this instance would prove of less importance than the fact that the computer was in fact communicating something. In other words, what the computer says would be secondary to the fact that it says it correctly.

   (Source: from Bill Chamberlain's introduction at Ubuweb)

   Scott Rettberg - 25.08.2012 - 14:13

4. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

   The interactive fiction version of the immensely popular book series by Douglas Adams.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 16.09.2012 - 20:48

5. Abracadabra

   Multicolor hologram (WL transmission).

   Luciana Gattass - 25.11.2012 - 02:24

6. Kontrabant (Smuggler)

   Kontrabant (Smuggler)

   Dan Kvilhaug - 14.03.2013 - 13:46

7. Kontrabant 2 (Smuggler 2)

   This game is not in slovenian but actually in serbian.

   Dan Kvilhaug - 14.03.2013 - 13:54

8. Travesty

   A Perl program for scrambling a text based on the frequency with which pairs of words appear in the original text. The result is a strange parody of the original It can also be used to scramble multiple texts - which creates a parody that algorithmically draws parallels between the two (because it reveals how some of the same idioms/structures are used between the two.)

   Travesty is often thought to have originated from the Perl hacker community - the Perl source is distributed as part of the Perl distribution, and in fact, it is popular with Perl hackers.

   However, the original implementation was written (not in Perl) in 1984 by literary critic Hugh Kenner and Joseph O'Rourke as an algorithmic poetry tool.
   They introduced it in an article in Byte magazine called "A Travesty Generator for Micros."

   So Travesty has its roots in both the literary world and geekdom.
   (Source: Runme.org - say it with software art!)

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 09.06.2013 - 23:45

9. Universe

   A story-generator that generates soap operas.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 29.08.2013 - 15:19

10. Sherlock

    A text adventure game. A double murder has been committed in the town of Leatherhead and Dr. Watson has encouraged the player, who plays Holmes, to investigate. Inspector Lestrade is also investigating. The game came with paratextual elements such as time tables for the train, which served as a form of copy protection as you needed the information to play the game.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 20.06.2014 - 18:33

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