Archive for the 'HCTI' Category
Gnoetry: interview with Eric Elshtain
4 Comments Published by Christy Dena April 2nd, 2006 in HCTI, generators, Poetics, bots, CCS, Text Art, Criticism, Software, HAI.Many readers of this blog would be familiar with the poem generator:?Gnoetry. It is, basically, a computer program with which a human collaborates to create new poems out of a pool of texts. It is a form of constrained writing and an experiment in human-computer collaboration.?It has been described and labeled in many ways, such?as […]
Quantum Writing
14 Comments Published by Christy Dena March 8th, 2006 in Uncategorized, HCTI, generators, Text Art, Criticism.In quantum physics, there is the idea of alternate and contending realities. The famous hypothetical?of Schrodinger’s Cat (see also this wonderful animation by Adam Duncan of this problem being contemplated by robots) explores the idea : imagine a cat in a box. Is the cat alive or dead? Quantum physics says that both possiblities exist, […]
Curious George Landow
7 Comments Published by Mark Marino March 1st, 2006 in Uncategorized, HCTI, CYOA, News, Text Art, Criticism, Education.What can we learn from Curious George?
(By no means do I mean to make a monkey out of one of the forefathers of eliterary criticism and a mentor of mine, a man who worked harder than most to firmly plant hypertext in a literary and academic arboretum.? If anything, this post swings?between homage and?lament).
**CURIOUS GEORGE […]
PoeTry It - animated text art
3 Comments Published by Jeremy Douglass February 3rd, 2006 in Uncategorized, ASCII, HCTI, code, News, Text Art, MSA.Try It, uploaded by _william
Take a moment to watch this very brief animated poem, a gif file which reads “towards a new poeTry - Try It”… the full version is available on _william’s Flickr account.
What genre are linear animated digital text sequences? Are they essentially analogous to film? The text and layer effects in this […]
Crash, don’t chat: simple reflex tropes
1 Comment Published by Christy Dena December 10th, 2005 in Uncategorized, HCTI, generators, bots, HAI.The web is swamped with advergames at the moment as they are the new holiday season card. One advergame that has come out recently is season agnostic but has topped my list of great gifts: Entertainment Anytime (I’m calling it Taxi). The advergame, created by Organic for US telco Sprint is in the ilk of […]