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Literatronica: The next generation of hypertext authoring
4 Comments Published by Mark Marino May 22nd, 2006 in Uncategorized, ASCII, HCTI, hyperfic, Poetics, Features, Criticism, MSA, Software, Fictionality.Hypertext literature?is ready for a new?tool and it’s name is Literatronica.
Screen as Tabula Lucida
0 Comments Published by Jeremy Douglass May 22nd, 2006 in Uncategorized, Poetics, Off Topic, Text Art, MSA.Pan Am Stewardess, uploaded by splorp
Begin with an old distinction: on the one hand, photographic images, which reflect the existence of real things in the real world. On the other hand, drawings, paintings, renderings, and other representations which may signify things, but do not testify to their reality. Digital camera files belong to the first […]
Super-Spectacular Day
1 Comment Published by Mark Marino May 18th, 2006 in Uncategorized, Off Topic, Text Art, MSA.In 1980 (c1979), MAD Magazine featured a form of what Christy has been calling Quantum Writing. Amidst the pages of the magazine was a free record. Upon placing the needle on the record, you hear a song begin with a pre-Prozac, bright sunny intro about what a wonderful day it is going to be….
Words On Skin
1 Comment Published by Jeremy Douglass May 17th, 2006 in Uncategorized, ASCII, Poetics, Off Topic, Text Art, MSA.For a while now I’ve subscribed to various online sources of words on skin images, and recently I also found Darren Barefoot’s collection of observations on Textual Tattoos. The following are some thoughts about words-on-skin - thinking towards (as usual) digital-words-on-skin.
When people think of words-on-skin, they generally think of tattoos. Examples of plain-text (or reasonably […]
Prayer Bot 2.0
2 Comments Published by Jeremy Douglass May 15th, 2006 in Uncategorized, Poetics, bots, Text Art, MSA.Prayer Bot 2.0, uploaded by Pete Mandik.
We previously discussed how digitally annotated images can form a commentary. But what about when they tell a story?
Prayer Bot 2.0 is a fascinating short story / photo / sculpture, created by Peter Mandik, a researcher in Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Psychology, as well as a writer, photographer, and robot-hobbyist. […]