Processing

By Alvaro Seica, 18 February, 2016
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This book introduces programming to readers with a background in the arts and humanities; there are no prerequisites, and no knowledge of computation is assumed. In it, Nick Montfort reveals programming to be not merely a technical exercise within given constraints but a tool for sketching, brainstorming, and inquiring about important topics. He emphasizes programming’s exploratory potential—its facility to create new kinds of artworks and to probe data for new ideas. The book is designed to be read alongside the computer, allowing readers to program while making their way through the chapters. It offers practical exercises in writing and modifying code, beginning on a small scale and increasing in substance. In some cases, a specification is given for a program, but the core activities are a series of “free projects,” intentionally underspecified exercises that leave room for readers to determine their own direction and write different sorts of programs. Throughout the book, Montfort also considers how computation and programming are culturally situated—how programming relates to the methods and questions of the arts and humanities. The book uses Python and Processing, both of which are free software, as the primary programming languages. (Source: MIT Press)

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How do we perform ourselves in digital space? In Not Not 0.1, Catherine Siller uses her own custom software and a motion capture camera to generate projected text and images of herself. She immerses herself in these projections and dances between the virtual and the real in a duet with her digital double. The piece destabilizes language and gesture as it repeatedly redraws the boundary between the physical and the digital self.

(Source: ELO Conference 2014)

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(Source: Punkto 0)

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The poem tantascoisasparadizer [somanythingstosay] is an electronic recoding of the visual poem with the same title, whereas in this version it has removed spaces that previously separated the words that hold its name. (Source: Author. Trans.: Seiça)

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O poema tantascoisasparadizer é uma recodificação electrónica do poema visual com o mesmo título, aqui com supressão dos espaços que antes separavam as palavras que lhe dão o nome. A ideia era replicar em meio digital a poética interior ao texto que está na sua génese, o que considero ter sido conseguido. Isto, julgo, vem colocar em evidência o facto de o texto experimental partilhar, de certa forma, das premissas que estão na base da criação assistida por computador. No fundo, e sem ir muito longe nesta reflexão, é como se o poema visual tantas coisas para dizer fosse uma cristalização no espaço-tempo do poema electrónico tantascoisasparadizer. Mas, se virmos as coisas por outro lado, o poema visual não continha já em si uma ideia de movimento? Não estava, também ele, focado no processo? Não era já a sua natureza uma natureza performativa? Este poema foi construído com recurso ao software Processing e parti do código Text – Pulse, escrito por Bruno Richter e por ele partilhado em código aberto. Em larga medida, é a estas linhas de código que devo a existência visual e processual do meu poema. Poucas foram as alterações que fiz ao código deste outro Bruno; a base por ele construída está aqui toda, apenas lhe introduzi pequenas variantes. Às suas linhas de código acrescentei algumas outras de modo a incorporar áudio no poema. As vozes que se ouvem quando se navega no poema são as vozes da Célia e do Cristiano, dois seres cibernéticos que vivem dentro de ferramentas text-to-speech. O poema electrónico tem de ser corrido a partir do disco rígido do utilizador. O download pode ser feito através dos ficheiros abaixo, de acordo com o sistema operativo do/a utilizador(a). É provável que o anti-vírus instalado no computador salte no ecrã para avisar que os ficheiros são perigosos. Mas, asseguro: digam o que disserem, a poesia ergódica não é assim tão prejudicial. (Source: Author)

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Le duo Akenaton a été créé en 1984, en Corse (Ajaccio) par Philippe Castellin, poète proche des courants des poésies expérimentales et Jean Torregrosa, plasticien. La performance proposée s’appuiera sur la lecture d’une centaine de textes au choix tirés au sort par une machine, qui les déclamera par voix synthétique. Ces choix seront opérés sur le clavier et lanceront parfois des vidéos préenregistrées, toujours tirées au sort par la machine. Opérant en duo, chacun des artistes peut tour à tour monter sur scène, lire en live et accompagner par la lecture de la machine manipulée par le second artiste.

(Source: http://chercherletexte.org/fr/performance/lectures-assistees-par-ordina…)

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This panel session will explore the curation of electronic or born-digital materials in literary manuscript collections. Speakers will discuss how they applied (or tried to apply) traditional archival theories of appraisal, transfer, processing, preservation, and access to electronic records within their collections. The session will interest writers and artists, scholars, and curators and archivists specializing in electronic media and provide a unique chance for intellectual exchange between these groups.

(Source: 2008 ELO Conference site)

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RiTa is an easy-to-use toolkit designed to facilitate experiments in natural language and generative literature. It is currently available in two 'flavors': Javascript (with rendering via the HTML5 Canvas or ProcessingJS) and Java (with rendering via Processing). Some of the optional packages available include RiTaWordNet (integrating with the WordNet ontological database) and RiTaBox (integrating with the Box2D Physics library). All RiTa tools are free and open-source.

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"The Executor" was written in an unusual way. Each author took turns writing sentences, beginning with the final sentence of the story and working backwards.

In a release from Spineless Books, Montfort and Gillespie state that "without planning the content of the story, [they] alternated writing sentences" (Montfort). Each author contributed sentences without knowing the direction that the narrative would take.

The plot follows Jeremy Salader, who returns to a past he has left behind. At some point in his life he made the decision to escape from his life and move towards a new future. A phone call forces Salader to return to his home. By simply looking through the phonebook, Jeremy realizes that his sister, Selma, is still living in the family home caring for their dying mother. When Jeremy meets with Selma, Jeremy's attachment to his estranged mother becomes clear. Selma feels that Jeremy and his mother need to reconcile because she can no longer deal with a dying parent alone. No decision is made and both siblings are left contemplating the future.

"The Executor," built on both processing, an open source programming language and environment for the creation of images, animation and interactions, as well as Java. The story is presented as a scrolling text with the speed of the scrolling gradually increasing as the story progresses. The screen gradually darkens, from white to black, and the text pulses as the story unfolds. The pulsing, and breathing of the text describes the collaborative nature of the work. It mirrors the back and forth process of writing the authors used to write the story. The visual elements also convey Jeremy's growing anxiety about seeing his mother and the mother's progression towards death. The reversible chronology of "The Executor" formally suggests that the past is not distinct from the future: the two intertwine and act upon each other in social, psychological, and narrative systems alike.

(Source: Electronic Literature Directory entry by Jonathan Jarvie)

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This event plans to discuss the relation between literature, its diverse theoretical, practical and artistic perspectives, and the digital medium, giving emphasis on computer languages processing, which include the processing of natural languages, in their various forms (from statistical text analysis to web-semantics). This includes literary digital libraries and databases; reading, teaching, and learning digital support tools; digital arts and creative writing; digital treatment of literary texts; digital literary journals; writing in the digital media. These topics cover various areas of knowledge, in addition to literature, such as design, library science, computer science, linguistics, among others, also related to the event's proposal. In short, with this symposium, we intend to make clear once and for all the relationship between the area of Arts and science, technology and innovation, focusing resolutely on overcoming mutual prejudices that date ages back.

(Source: Nupill website)

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This poem, together with 'Square 01', is part of an ongoing series of interactive, experimental and generative poetic texts to generate visual compositions, which fill the viewable space in time, with a growing pattern triggered by sound and silence. If the sound is loud the letters become thicker and bigger. As in many of my pieces, the poems don’t exist until the viewer interacts with them. String_code is the visual representation of the code in Square 01, this is why I am presenting both as a pair. In all poems, the three communication systems converge: image, writing and code. Square 01 is formed by the western alphabet. All the letters appear lineally, in rows, superimposed over each other, until they eventually become an indistinguishable blob. It was my intention to explore the tradition of concrete poetry, its formal representations and production processes using the programming language of Processing. Taking model in Hansjorg Mayer’s alphabetenquadratbuch poem, its minimalist visual form of multiple layers, the desire to escape from the linguistic through the obliteration of the letters and the encapsulation in it by the square. Quality which is even more emphatic in the generative poems, due to the added quality of time engendered in their generative form. This kind of textuality has the impact of a visual artwork, provoking other senses and emotional states as well as open meanings. The shifting from the visual to the linguistic and viceversa to create that in-between state of verbal-visual energy is itself the poem.

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This work is presented in Processing. The applet application function in Macs and Windows operating systems with no need of Processing being downloaded or any plug-ins. (both applet applications are included - I have coloured them in blue to make it easier for you to see what you need to open - you see blue-colour on Macs and the original file in yellow).