Report or White Paper

Funkhouser describes the PO.EX’70-80 project and highlights several elements of the database, praising the taxonomy and preservation/representation of works.

A letter of support of the PO.EX’70-80 project research proposal

Creative text generation projects of different sizes (in terms of lines of code and length
of development time) are described. “Extra-small,” “small,” “medium,” and “large”
projects are discussed as participating in the practice of creative computing differently.
Different ways in which these projects have circulated and are being used in the
community of practice are identified. While large-scale projects have clearly been
important in advancing creative text generation, the argument presented here is that
the other types of projects are also valuable and that they are undervalued (particularly
in computer science and strongly related fields) by current structures of higher
education and academic communication – structures which could be changed.

(Source: Author's Abstract)

The current paradigm for synthetic reality based interactive fiction features familiar kinds of worlds realistically presented. This approach is unsatisfying in that it excludes several interesting classes of worlds, such as worlds where the user experiences the subjective reality of a character with a substantially different personality. We wish to extend the current
paradigm to include classes of worlds such as these. To achieve this, we survey cinema technique and develop a theory of narrative and roughly sketch a system architecture to support enriched interactive fiction based on analogy with film techniques. This work is significant because it brings us closer to our goal of making interactivefictioninto a rich, high
quality artistic medium.

The original proposal for CERN on which the World Wide Web is based.

A research report commissioned by Arts Council Norway to provide an overview over how literature is affected by the digital. A large portion of the report discusses how authorship and conventional literature is affected by digital media, and how social media and ebooks affect the distribution of conventional literature. There is also a discussion of electronic literature as a separate form.

Creative text generation projects of different sizes (in terms of lines of code and length of development time) are described. “Extra-small,” “small,” “medium,” and “large” projects are discussed as participating in the practice of creative computing differently. Different ways in which these projects have circulated and are being used in the community of practice are identified. While large-scale projects have clearly been important in advancing creative text generation, the argument presented here is that the other types of projects are also valuable and that they are undervalued (particularly in computer science and strongly related fields) by current structures of higher education and academic communication – structures which could be changed.

(Source: Author's abstract)

A trivial program, one that simply prints “y” or a string that is given as an argument repeatedly, is explicated and examined at the levels of function and code. Although the program by itself is neither interesting or instructive, the argument is presented that by looking at “yes” it is possible to better understand how programs exist not only on platforms but also in an ecology of systems, scripts, and utilities.

(Source: Author's abstract, prepared for the Critical Code Studies Working Group 2012.)

Chris Funkhouser's report on the 2003 E-Poetry Festival.

Principles for organizing a laboratory with material computing resources are articulated. This laboratory, the Trope Tank, is a facility for teaching, research, and creative collaboration and offers hardware (in working condition and set up for use) from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, including videogame systems, home computers, an arcade cabinet, and a workstation. Other resources include controllers, peripherals, manuals, books, and software on physical media. In reorganizing the space, we considered its primary purpose as a laboratory (rather than as a library or studio), organized materials by platform and intended use, and provided additional cues and textual information about the historical contexts of the available systems.

(Source: A technical report from The Trope Tank Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Ave, 14N-233 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA http://trope-tank.mit.edu)