Archive for December, 2006
Critical Code Studies in ebr
5 Comments Published by Mark Marino December 18th, 2006 in Features, CCS, Criticism, Conferences.[updated 1/02/07] This post follows up on two previous posts on WRT ( 1, 2 ) and a follow-up. Link directly to Critical Code Studies in the ebr.
Critical Code Studies first began as an inspiration here on WRT. This December marks the formal launch with the publication of “Critical Code Studies” in the electronic book […]
Excelling: an interview with Danielle Aubert
0 Comments Published by Jeremy Douglass December 15th, 2006 in ASCII, code, poetry, Poetics, Features, Text Art, Interviews.Recently, WRT featured the art book 16 Months Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel. WRT interviewed artist Danielle Aubert about her Excel art, and more:
WRT: Can you tell us a bit about yourself?
Danielle Aubert: I’m based in Detroit. I moved out here in June of 2005 after finishing up an MFA program in graphic […]
Excel and Artbooks: the daily drawings of Danielle Aubert
0 Comments Published by Jeremy Douglass December 11th, 2006 in ASCII, code, poetry, Poetics, Features, Text Art, Criticism, Publications.16 Months Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel is a new book out from artist Danielle Aubert. As the preface details:
The 65 drawings in this book were selected from drawings made in Microsoft Excel between March 2005 and June 2006[…]. Each drawing took between 20 minutes and an hour to complete and was […]
Wikinovela — A Tale of Multiple Tongues
0 Comments Published by Mark Marino December 11th, 2006 in HCTI, hyperfic, Poetics, Researchers, Features, Criticism, Conferences, Software, Fictionality.From the 3rd Congress of the Cybersociety comes: The wikinovela
If wikis are a definitive collaborative technology, what happens when a group tries to write a multilingual novel using the form?
[What follows is a commentary on the project involving a bit of translating and paraphrasing of the conference essay “Wikinovela: a project of hypertextual, collaborative, and multilingual creation on the Internet” by Patricia Fernandez Carrelo and Santiago Perez Isasi.]
Produced by the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of University of Deusto (Bilbao, Spain) under a Creative Commons license, Wikinovela began April 24, 2006 and eneded July 24, 2006. Over the course of the three-months, the collaborators produced a work that stretches across languages: Castilian, euskara (Basque), and English. That is not to say that the work has been translated, but that distinct parts of Wikinovela appear in each language.
Participants could modify the text of others, continue any of the on-going storylines, create new plots (or “hypertextual ramifications” of a plot), or add metanarrative commentaries.