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Eric Dean Rasmussen - 16.02.2011 - 15:41

Inspired by Derrida's Of Grammatology, Mark Amerika experiments in GRAMMATRON with narrative form in a networked environment. Amerika retells the Jewish Golem myth by adapting it into the culture of programmable media and remixing several genres of text into the story's hybridized style, including metafiction, hypertext, cyberpunk, and conceptual works affiliated with the Art+Language group.

Narrated from various authorial perspectives, the story introduces readers to Abe Golam, a pioneering Net artist who creates Grammatron, a writing machine. Endowed not with the Word (as in the original myth) but with forbidden data—a specially coded Nanoscript—the creature becomes a digital being that "contains all of the combinatory potential of all the writings." The Grammatron is the personification of the Golem, which is also a personification of Amerika the artist. While the Golem and its environment have been depicted in any number of literary adaptations and works, in GRAMMATRON, Mark Amerika creates a seemingly infinite, recombinant (text-)space in the electrosphere.

Eric Dean Rasmussen - 16.02.2011 - 15:42

Birds Singing Other Birds' Songs

Author description: This work originated when I was invited to exhibit at the Medway Galleries. The most interesting features of the gallery were its high ceiling and three large windows, which I was inspired to use in the work. I wanted to explore kinetic typography, the animation of images and sound. I came across a transcription of birds' songs in the book The Thinking Ear. Suddenly, I was drawn to this transcription because of the similarities with the phonemes I was using in my other works. The repetitive aspect of letters and what looked like syllables reminded me of sound poems. So, I decided to ask some singers to sing their own interpretation of the transcriptions of the songs, in order to play with the interpretative process of these translations. Having been translated first from birds' song into linguistic interpretations, now the birdsongs would be re-interpreted by the human voice. The sounds that emerged from this study were later attached to the animated birds in the shape of calligrams. The outlines and letters of the text birds corresponded to the transcribed sound made by each bird, so making the birds sing their own visual-textual compositions.

Eric Dean Rasmussen - 17.02.2011 - 11:35

Steven Hall

Eric Dean Rasmussen - 17.02.2011 - 16:34

The Raw Shark Texts

Eric Dean Rasmussen - 17.02.2011 - 16:37

Nachtkrabbel

yra van dijk - 18.02.2011 - 01:03

Will Crowther

Jill Walker Rettberg - 18.02.2011 - 14:51

Don Woods

American programmer, perhaps best known for his role in the development of the Colossal Cave Adventure game, which he found by accident on a SAIL computer in 1976. He received permission from Will Crowther to continue working on it, adding most of the game-like qualities.

Jill Walker Rettberg - 18.02.2011 - 14:53

Francesco Cordelli

Jill Walker Rettberg - 18.02.2011 - 14:58

L’avventura è l’avventura

Italian blog about interactive fiction.

Jill Walker Rettberg - 18.02.2011 - 15:01

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