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Radio Salience
"Radio Salience" is an image-text-sound instrument with certain game-like features. The player (user? listener? reader?) watches an array of four image panels, showing component slices from various larger images. When any two slices match, slot-machine style, a click will initiate a poetastic moment. There is no score, so no way to win, lose, or escape. Radio is all.
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"I have known that which the Greeks do not know -- uncertainty" (Borges).
Just another entry in the Babylon Lottery, this project explores indeterminacy, accident, and resonance, taking as its muse the breathless voice of the airwaves, or radio. What did those Greeks know, anyway?
Some may ask, are we yet reading? Well, somebody had to, but in most cases they weren't human. No sirens were harmed, and no one is like to drown. Also, this is once again not a game. Though what you will see is certainly playable, there is no real contest, no score, no leveling. Let's play Twister, let's play Risk.
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Stuart Moulthrop - 20.06.2012 - 19:10
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No Time Machine
Quiet time, dead time, free time—call it what you will, there seems to be less and less of it. What do people give up in the race to maximize every second of their waking life? What kinds of activities are replaced by the panicked drive for efficiency? No Time Machine explores these questions by mining the Internet for mentions of the phrase “I don’t have time for” and variations such as “You can’t find the time for” and “We don’t make time for.” Based on a set of procedures we’ve set up, a program analyzes the search results and reconstructs them into a poetic conversation. Interwoven with this “found poetry” generated by the program are sentences that we re-contextualized ourselves; a human-computer collaboration that expands the field of creative writing to include networked and programmable media.
(Source: authors abstract from Turbulence)
Patricia Tomaszek - 24.08.2012 - 16:08
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Missed Connections
Missed Connections is a 2-Channel internet-aware software piece that continuously fetches the latest posts in the "missed connections" section of Craigslist.org. Each post is presented one at a time, and is filtered by looking for so-called stopwords. Computer Scientists define stopwords as those words that do not convey the meaning of a message. In essence, they are considered signal noise in the stream of potential information. Each post is presented simultaneously in two ways: one just with stopwords, the other with non-stopwords, and in both cases the filtered words are displayed as dashed lines, akin to the way words are presented in the game Hangman. Thus, both posts present the same "graphical" structure, but have the potential for very different readings. Source: work description at author's website
Patricia Tomaszek - 28.08.2012 - 14:49
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Every Word I Saved (Book)
Every Word I Saved (Book) is the second in a series of works based on a database of every word that the artist has written saved in his various computers since 2002. In this work, the database is printed in its entirety, in a format that vaguely resembles a ledger. Words are keyed for their origin, and they are accompanied by a time stamp that reflects when they were saved. The 11x17in. book contains over 300 pages, and it is fully navigable. By hand.
(Source: artist's description on project website)
Patricia Tomaszek - 28.08.2012 - 15:06
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Time Train
"Timetrain" by Dorothee Lang is an ethereal experience created in Flash that uses the visuals of a train station in combination with audio and carefully crafted text to take the reader along for a ride. As images and phrases move across the screen and new juxtapositions are created, the reader is presented with opportunities for self-reflection. As the bottom of the picture moves to the right, forward, while the top of the picture moves to the left, backward suggesting spatial as well as temporal movements as trains "arrive" and "depart." The text floats in the middle as the pictures show a 360 degree view of the station.
(Source: Electronic Literature Directory entry by Joy Jeffers)
Scott Rettberg - 16.10.2012 - 15:58
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Searchsongs
searchSongs captures the stream of words of Lycos' live search. This stream of words might be understood as an expression of collective desire, as the net's melody of yearning, which is played by thousands of people, who at any moment try to reach the desired by means of a search engine. This melody of yearning is made audible by searchSongs. Words contain playable tones of the musical notation system (c, d, e, f, g, a, h, c, fis, ces ...). On one side searchSongs' web interface shows the stream of words of the live search, on the other side there are lines of musical notes below which transform playable letters in musical notes. Non-playable letters define the length of a tone. In ancient Greece there already was a notation system of letters which was used for indicating the pitch of a tone, and the length of a tone was marked with a symbol written above the letter. A traditioned example is the Seikilos epitaph dated from the second century B.C. The most well known example of a word set to music by a letter notation system is the B-A-C-H motif, which Johann Sebastian Bach repeatedly used in his compositions.
Johannes Auer - 05.11.2012 - 12:43
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sniff_jazzbox.audible_city
sniff_jazzbox creates an audible city. it converts the wlan-waves into sound waves. the wlan conversion uses a streamsearch algorithm which was also used in streamfishing and searchsongs. the extended version for iphone will let the user control instruments and speed of the melodies. sniff_jazzbox captures the wlans in the immediate area like a wardrive-tool and produces a stream of wlan-names. this stream of words might be understood as a subconscious expression of the presently existing communication networks. sniff_jazzbox renders private data visible, translates it and makes it audible as a melody of yearning for contact and exchange. the names of the captured hotspots contain playable tones of the musical notation system (c, d, e, f, g, a, h, c, fis, ces ...). as you walk, ride or drive through town you will inevitably encounter loads of hotspots which are accessible for your little machine. sniff_jazzbox.audible_city is made for the iphone, it registers all the hotspots and turns them into music. through a set of instruments and different speeds for the tunes the user can interact with the tunes and adapt the music. Try it out!
Johannes Auer - 06.11.2012 - 11:17
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Over and Over, Even
sound micro-installation
Luciana Gattass - 14.11.2012 - 17:36
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Sujeitobjeto (Practices of Meaning)
Using a transparent oilbar and a window reflecting the sunny sky in Basel, Betty Leirner relates the subjects of language, thought and object, while Florian Kutzli relates photography to film by shooting 2.538 pictures with a Nikon D2 photo camera in order to actualize 'practices of meaning' - a fotofilm. (Source: reelport catalog)
Luciana Gattass - 22.11.2012 - 14:12
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Hors Catégorie
Hors Catégorie is an interactive fiction by Chris Calabro and David Benin developed in 2007.
It is possible to play it on almost every system, even on Smartphone.
The used Software is a z-machine Interpreter, which is a game’s requirement as the player needs it in order to emulate an Infocom machine.
It takes place entirely in a single hotel room, with several subrooms. Unlike many adventure-like interactive fictions, location, possessions, and strength are not the main obstacles of this game, but rather player knowledge and moral choices. The point is to explore the inner conflict of the protagonist and shape his character. This is why the typical presence of interactive fictions’ obstacles makes Hors Catégorie innovative and different because here they are the player moral choices.
The title of the game comes from the 'out of category' classification of difficult climbs in the Tour de France, where the game is set. The protagonist is a rider in the Tour, just waking, getting ready to take on the day's current stage.
How to play:
Scott Rettberg - 07.01.2013 - 16:24
