Meaning Maker is a guided interactive response structure tailored to specific styles of experience.
Meaning Maker enables users to round out and develop closure with any given experience.
When used over time, Meaning Maker becomes a powerful and useful tool to assist in understanding and evaluating one's life experiences and activities.
Making distinctions is essential for human survival.
(Source: Meaning Maker project "about" page)
A response to his opponents' discussion of his PhD dissertation in the same issue of Edda.
A poetic tribute to the writings of J.D. Salinger, this work explores Nine Stories (1953), by inviting participants to write their thoughts into a book in response to nine individual prompts, each corresponding to one of the stories. Interacting with the book reveals a series of poems that follow thematic gestures from the original writings.
To interact, open the book to any one page, read the typed prompt and then write down either a single word, or short phrase as a response, writing onto the adjoining page’s writable section using the pen. A nearby screen responds by offering several composed verses with each inscription. When a section is filled, that gesture is considered complete.
(Source: Author's description for ELO_AI)
A response to Nick Montfort's "Remediating the Social" keynote talk. Rettberg was subsituting for Rita Raley, who was unable to attend the conference due to Hurricane Sandy's impact on New York. Rettberg provides two examples of collaborative procedural writing practices as a contrast to the social programming examples such as the Demoscene Montfort discusses, and some followup questions on the four main points of Montfort's essay.