Archive for the 'Social' Category
Computers in the Composition Classroom (Great Debate)
7 Comments Published by Mark Marino March 29th, 2006 in Uncategorized, Text Art, Software, Education, Social.(This begins another of the Great Debates on WRT.)
Previous debates: Frustration, Hamlet, Intelligent Design.
What is the place of digital character art (and computers in general) in the composition classroom?
Many of us who research new media and games also end up in in the composition classroom, teaching English 101. Our temptation is to go straight to […]
Automated Hobo recording project
0 Comments Published by Jeremy Douglass January 30th, 2006 in Uncategorized, Poetics, Researchers, Off Topic, News, Text Art, Social.Speak Softly, uploaded by SF buckaroo
This image is from the California high-desert bacchanal Burning Man, during which Mark G. circulated Automated Hobo, a sound-harvesting experiment using cheap tape recorders and hand-written instructions.
I purchase cheap tape recorders at thrift stores and wherever, load them with batteries and blank tape, and write instructions on the outside that […]
An annotated faux-box (via Flickr)
1 Comment Published by Jeremy Douglass January 25th, 2006 in Uncategorized, Off Topic, News, Text Art, MSA, Fictionality, Social.A Telstar Logistics Celluploaded by jurvetson
According to the owner, “this TLC is a territory-softening Syn-Ack ‘air cover’ node for the Telstar interventional-photography troupe and their urban assault vehicles”… which roughly translated means that the mass of wires and circuit-boards in the picture is actually a collection of stage props (kitchen mixer, periscope, VHS deck, equalizer) […]
Digital text art in the news
0 Comments Published by Jeremy Douglass January 20th, 2006 in Uncategorized, ASCII, hyperfic, IF, bots, News, Text Art, Publications, Social.Following up on the recent discussion of IF news, here is a grab-bag of digital text art news items. Our general practice at WRT is to add interesting articles to our bookmark feed as we find them (del.icio.us/wrt), but only blog on when we have substantial commentary. We may experiment with writing a monthly […]
Transclusion and Google Print
7 Comments Published by Jeremy Douglass November 14th, 2005 in search, News, Text Art, Social.For those of you who haven’t typed your favorite topic words and phrases into Google Print, I highly recommend it. Some search terms I tried included:
interactive fiction
hypertext fiction
eliterature
electronic literature
chatbot
Some results are, of course, better than others. “Electronic literature” is a bit hit-and-miss compared to eliterature, and “chatbot” results are quite thin. Still, when looking at […]