Via skype, the author presents her work and gives a reading of two works "about nothing, places, memories, and thoughts: robert creeley (1926-2005) and patricia tomaszek in a cut and mixed poem-dialogue" and "Planting Trees Out of the Grief: In Memoriam Robert Creeley"
petite brosse à dépoussiérer la fiction" (small brush to dust off fiction) is a generative piece written in French. A scene of thriller is generated at each time you run the program or ask for a new scene. This scene explores different possibilities of a scenario. But the reader must continually "dust" a picture that covers the text while reading. The text is a pastiche: the scene is located at a time in a single location. Some features happen out of this room, they are computed by the program but not expressed into the narrative. The piece begins with some "adapted" poems by Jean de La Fontaine.
(Source: The ELO 2012 Media Art Show.)
Note on the "lability of the device" and the inclusion of the work in the respective collection: viewed and accessed on a tablet, the finger-based navigation experience turns this work to be labile and does not provide the same experience as with the mouse on screen (Patricia Tomaszek).
The work was adapted to a tablet/mobile version in 2011 by Inés Laitano.
'Sintext,' an "automatic text synthesizer," or text generator, was first developed in DOS by Pedro Barbosa in collaboration with Abílio Cavalheiro, who wrote the program in C++. For the later version for the Web, developed in Java with the collaboration by José Manuel Torres, see the ELMCIP record for 'Sintext-W:' http://elmcip.net/node/8009
"Gutenberg Galaxy Revis(it)ed: A Brief History of Combinatory, Hypertextual and Collaborative Literature from the Baroque Period to the Present"
Literature in computer-based media cannot be contemplated without a long literary tradition.This article aims at substantiating this assumption with numerous examples of combinatory,hypertextual and collaborative texts from German literary history since baroquetimes. Therewith it provides us with a historical basis in order to work out the commonfeatures and differences that with computers have entered literary texts.
Source: author's abstract in book publication
The Ars magna sciendi, Athanasius Kircher’s adaptation and elaboration of Lull’s Ars magna, illustrates a common tendency of the Baroque era: In additionto books, alternative Aufschreibesysteme (“systems of notation”) (Kittler) appearthat are storage media of traditional knowledge and generators of new knowledgeat the same time (134).