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Elys, The Lacemaker: The Book of Hours of Madame de Lafayette
The story of Elys, the Lacemaker to the Princess of Cleves is a double-true fiction. First, a lacemaker is not mentioned in the text of Madame de Lafayette's Princess of Cleves. However, the Princess surely had both seamstresses and personal fitters for her couture. It was not uncommon for a proper trousseau to be many years in preparation. Elegant ladies were sewn into their gowns before setting off to the ball. Also, no record attests that the Viscount of Chartres had a natural child--or certainly not one named Elys. But it was customary to donate unwanted souls to the service of the many needs of the Court. As a fictional lacemaker, Elys would certainly have heard the folktale, "Little Red Riding Hood." Early, oral versions of the tale include the wolf asking Riding Hood if she planned to take the "path of pins" or the "path of needles." The Grandmother, too, is blind--attesting to the fate of the real lacemakers who worked from age four until their sight failed in adolescence. I have adapted the Cinderella story for Elys' mother, Elle.
Dene Grigar - 08.11.2021 - 20:25
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Aarhus Urban Operating System (AaUOS)
Aarhus Urban Operating System is situated as a parasitic ‘flipside’ of the ELO 2021 conference website, where you’ll find a chatroom populated by e-literary bots that are trained to be connoisseurs of certain aspects of the city of Aarhus. The bots of Aarhus Urban Operating System are based on equal parts handcrafted conversation trees and recurrent neural networks. Each bot is a character in a metropolitan drama, from the head of the tourist department to the local bog body, the Grauballe Man (who you’ll get to know by interacting with the work).
Malthe Stavning Erslev - 12.11.2021 - 14:02
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Poems About Things
Poems About Things is a project that generates poetry from everyday objects around us. It consists of a mobile website that constructs quirky sentences about the objects it sees through the users camera feed.
As the user's camera focuses on an object, a built in machine learning model gives its best guess as to what object it is seeing. Based on this estimate a short query is sent to Google Suggest API, which in return sends back a list of sentences inspired by the detected object. The poem appears on the screen overlaying the image of the object. It consists of a handful of sentences expressing thoughts, questions or comments related to the immediate object as well as the bigger world outside it.
Malthe Stavning Erslev - 12.11.2021 - 14:22
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☯
A stack of simple handmade booklets (also entitled ☯) made available for free to festival attendees on a pedestal. The booklets present thirty-four Unicode glyphs, two per page spread, representing empty/full oppositions. After these is a “cast of characters” with the official names of the glyphs (in English).
Nick Montfort - 14.11.2021 - 20:14
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Arf Magna
“Arf Magna” sings the praises of the canine, not the divine, elaborating on the virtues of man’s best friend. The piece is based on the system of Ramón Llull’s Ars Magna, published in 1305 and including a paper wheel, or volvelle, to allow readers to produce different propositions about God by combining sixteen dignities. “Arf Magna” is also a simple, interactive, verbal machine, with Llull’s volvelle unrolled onto an implicit grid on the computer’s screen. As the user moves the mouse horizontally and vertically to produce propositions, colors shift and notes sound. The entire artwork is contained in a single page of HTML and is free/libre/open-source software, offered under a permissive license.
Nick Montfort - 15.11.2021 - 00:34
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Artificial Emotions
Partiendo de un data-set compuesto por obras maestras de la pintura occidental, se utilizó el API Emotions (un desarrollo de Microsoft) para analizar los rostros que aparecen en dichas pinturas. Lo que puede verse aquí es el resultado del accionar de dicho algoritmo, puntuando, en cada rostro reconocido, las distintas categorías que según el API componen las emociones -enfado, desprecio, desagrado, miedo, felicidad, neutralidad, tristeza y sorpresa-.
Laura Sánchez Gómez - 30.11.2021 - 14:06
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Poesie Elettroniche
Cosa succede quando la poesia incontra il codice di programmazione per computer? È quello che succede nell'ebook di Fabrizio Venerandi "Poesie elettroniche". Sei diversi modi di interpretare l'electronic poetry in un originale ebook dove i versi cambiano nel tempo, reagiscono al tocco del lettore, si modificano sotto i suoi occhi, generano a loro volta altri versi, si muovono nella pagina avvicinandosi e separandosi. Per questo ebook in versi Fabrizio Venerandi ha deciso di utilizzare l'ultimo formato per la creazione di ebook arricchiti, l'ePub3. Ha scritto i versi e contemporaneamente ha programmato il codice per animarli e renderli instabili. "Tutte le quattro sezioni del testo - spiega l'autore nella sua introduzione - contengono cose che non avrei voluto rileggere. Che non avrei voluto fermare in una forma. Queste sono poesie che non vogliono essere finite, ma che credono che la cosa di cui parlano sia ancora una cosa in mutazione". Per questo il lettore si troverà di fronte a versi cancellati, mutanti, in movimento.
Irene Fabbri - 30.11.2021 - 14:21
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Bot or Not
Bot or Not, a 2019 Mozilla Creative Awardee, is an online game that engages people in thinking critically about artificial agents that pretend to be human. Potentially matched to either a bot or a person, players are forced to question not only the human-ness of their opponent, but also themselves as they engage in a two-way guessing game. Today, more and more sophisticated bots are proliferating online and off, and it's getting harder to tell who's human. While this technology can be useful, it can also be used dishonestly: either through scam bots on Tinder and Instagram, or corporate bots that steal your data. There is a ton to learn about bots - particularly how to identify them - which you can explore by visiting the work.
Description taken from: https://www.foreignobjects.net/bot-or-not
Malthe Stavning Erslev - 30.11.2021 - 14:31
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Roes der zinnen (Flush of senses)
Voor zover Bullinga weet is het de eerste keer dat op deze manier een roman in Nederland verschijnt. Roes der Zinnen' is een raamvertelling over de ervaringen die de auteur heeft opgedaan als fotomodel en danser (de flashbacks). Ook vertelt Bullinga het verhaal over de depressies die hij overhield aan het model staan (het heden).
Voordeel van deze manier van presentatie is, volgens Bullinga, dat lezers door het grafisch linken van informatie (bekend onder de naam hypertext) een aantal extra mogelijkheden krijgen. Ze kunnen namelijk zèlf de verhaallijn kiezen die ze willen volgen, bijvoorbeeld door alleen voor de optie van de flashback te kiezen. En ook horen er foto's bij 'Roes der Zinnen', die los op te roepen zijn. Ze bieden weer de mogelijkheid het verhaal ook te laten vertellen door één van de vijftien fotografen die in het boek voorkomen. (bron: https://www.trouw.nl/cultuur-media/stop-de-persen~becd347d/)
Siebe Bluijs - 17.01.2022 - 15:57
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Compoëzie
Een van de eerste online dichtbundels uit de Lage Landen. De eerste versie kwam in 1992 uit op de BBS van de auteur. In 1994 verschenen ze voor op De Digitale Stad. Volgens de auteur zijn de gedichten 'geschreven voor beeldschermweergave. Ze horen op het web thuis en via een modem tot de mensen te komen. Alleen op die manier komt deze virtuele bundel het best tot zijn recht.'
De geïllustreerde versies van deze gedichten verschenen tijdens een online performance vanuit Paradiso in Amsterdam tijdens het N5M mediafestival op afstand bij de Bredase Kunststichting ter gelegenheid van de opening van Art-Doc-Com-BBS in 1992. De technische ondersteuning was in handen van het Xybertag Artburo.
Siebe Bluijs - 17.01.2022 - 16:26
