From 9e7d7c4f5479b20a5e1f4bf78258ba8d5f58d0a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Murtaugh Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 18:53:00 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] updated notes --- epicpedia_2024/2024-10-21-SI25-NOTES.html | 139 +++++++++++++++------- epicpedia_2024/2024-10-21-SI25-NOTES.md | 61 +++++----- 2 files changed, 122 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-) diff --git a/epicpedia_2024/2024-10-21-SI25-NOTES.html b/epicpedia_2024/2024-10-21-SI25-NOTES.html index c423ac3..c7b96d6 100644 --- a/epicpedia_2024/2024-10-21-SI25-NOTES.html +++ b/epicpedia_2024/2024-10-21-SI25-NOTES.html @@ -165,14 +165,13 @@ class="uri">https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Radio_WORM:_Protocols_for_Collect href="https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/book/789">Bellos in Mainframe Experimentalism)
  • Some Examples
    • -
  • An (off-screen) Exercise

    • Oulipo

    https://oulipo.net/

    N+7, an algorithm?

    -

    In Oulipo, their protocols are defined as -constraints,
    -You could also usefully consider N+7 as an example of an +

    Perhaps one of the most well known constraint as they are +called by Oulipo practioners.

    +

    You could also usefully consider N+7 as an example of an algorithm.

    Another famous constraint: No e

    -

    La Disparation (A Void in English), by Georges Perec

    +

    Also very well known is Perec’s La Disparation (A Void in English), a +novel written without the letter e.

    +

    It’s inspired a whole Mastodon instance where no e’s are one of the +central requirements for posting on the social network:

    +

    Oulipo zines

    +

    Oulipo worked with members who produced limited edition pamphlets +(basically zines).

    https://oulipo.net/fr/publications

    Who are the Women of Oulipo? (a constraint ;)

    -

    In revisiting the history of Oulipo, it’s useful to consider this -article by Sarah Coolidge that explores the question: Though mostly populated by men, in revisiting the history of Oulipo, +it’s a useful constraint to consider, as Sarah Coolidge does in her +article, Who Are the Women of Oulipo?

    BUT the broken links are quite numerous and tragic…

    @@ -242,6 +249,8 @@ href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26196054-one-hundred-twenty-one-days"> Hundred Twenty-One Days, that traces Mathematicians lives through World War I and II. +

    Examples of printed Oulipo pamphlets from Michèle Métail and Michelle +Grangaud are on the Special Issue shelf in the XPUB library!

    N+7 applied

    Let’s feed the first paragraph of Who @@ -272,30 +281,6 @@ entrenched the novice that the wound of literary rummage-breaking is in fag a brags clutter, that mandibles alone are the piranhas at the fruit of literary inquiry.

    -

    Sources

    -     -

    Examples

    -

    Unknown Unknowns

    Self-publishing project + publications from Angie Waller

    href="https://www.unknownunknowns.org/category/love-unknown-romance" class="uri">https://www.unknownunknowns.org/category/love-unknown-romance

    Last Night Bus Stop Yoga Pants, Chicago Illinois

    +

    Some other (inspiring) +examples

    +

    Epicpedia

    -

    notes on epicpedia

    -

    Han Kang as script…

    -

    If time perform? or just read.

    +

    A different example of a “script generator” is Annemieke van den +Hoek’s Epicpedia.

    +

    notes on epicpedia (2024)

    Rhetorical Space

    Lorraine Code, Rhetorical Spaces, Essays on Gendered Locations (1995)

    @@ -366,26 +375,64 @@ conditions, on engaged responses both favourable and critical. (p. x

    Each constraint (or freedom), determines a rhetorical space, of possible meaning, but which also determines the kinds of collaboration that can (and should) take place within it.

    -

    Exercise

    -

    As a group: choose a text (Women of Oulipo, TOS, Definition of -Rhetorical Space?)

    -

    Starting in pairs, develop some protocols/algorithms to treat the +

    An exercise

    +
      +
    1. As a group: choose a text (Women of Oulipo, TOS, Definition of +Rhetorical Space?)
      2. +
    2. Starting in pairs, develop some protocols/algorithms to treat the chosen text. Perform your algorithm by hand (or on -paper) – ie not with code.

      +paper) – ie not with code.
      3. +

    Exercises for over break

    +

    For over the break, think about a protocol/algorithm/constraint that +you would like to try to implement in some way (as a program, on paper, +in a web page using HTML + javascript, and/or eventually other libraries +or APIs. It’s important to formulate an objective that is attainable. If +coding is new to you, start with something relvatively simple or perhaps +already well-defined, but which still interests you such as:

    -

    Would be good to visit each to find a suitable project, make sure -good resources are available.

    -

    ?>?

    +

    What (additional) resources do you need?

    +

    Readings+Listenings for the +break

    +

    The Laurence Rassel Show is a radio show made in 2007, a +collaboration between the art and media org Constant (where Laurence +Rassel was a core member at the time), and DJ/musician Terre +Thamlitz.

    +

    Consider, some different links of the progam online, from Terre +Thamlitz’s own site, to an archival copy of publicrec.org (with +supporting documents), to the physical CD (in library):

    + +

    And contrast with less contextualized presence on other networks: * +https://www.discogs.com/master/191938-Laurence-Rassel-Terre-Thaemlitz-The-Laurence-Rassel-Show +* https://soundcloud.com/fedoriko/useless-movement * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_LNOBUAmLI

    +

    READINGS to go with TLRS…

    -

    Install our -own jsbin?

    +

    ALSO: check out the printed CD in the library for +the physical poster inside that contains a full “libretto” … all the +quoted texts and sources.

    diff --git a/epicpedia_2024/2024-10-21-SI25-NOTES.md b/epicpedia_2024/2024-10-21-SI25-NOTES.md index 680d42b..00f2a32 100644 --- a/epicpedia_2024/2024-10-21-SI25-NOTES.md +++ b/epicpedia_2024/2024-10-21-SI25-NOTES.md @@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ * Review of the reading ([Bellos in Mainframe Experimentalism](https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/book/789)) * Some Examples -* An (off-screen) Exercise ## Oulipo @@ -14,7 +13,8 @@ ## N+7, an algorithm? -In Oulipo, their *protocols* are defined as *constraints*, +Perhaps one of the most well known *constraint* as they are called by Oulipo practioners. + You could also usefully consider N+7 as an example of an *algorithm*. ![](A_Computer_Glossary-Algorithm.png) @@ -24,20 +24,25 @@ You could also usefully consider N+7 as an example of an *algorithm*. ## Another famous constraint: No e -La Disparation (A Void in English), by Georges Perec +Also very well known is Perec's La Disparation (A Void in English), a novel written without the letter e. * + +It's inspired a whole Mastodon instance where no e's are one of the central requirements for posting on the social network: + * ## Oulipo *zines* +Oulipo worked with members who produced limited edition pamphlets (basically zines). + -## Who are the Women of Oulipo? (a constraint ;) +## Who are the Women of Oulipo? (a constraint ;) -In revisiting the history of Oulipo, it's useful to consider this article by Sarah Coolidge that explores the question: [Who Are the Women of Oulipo?](https://www.catranslation.org/feature/who-are-the-women-of-oulipo/) +Though mostly populated by men, in revisiting the history of Oulipo, it's a useful constraint to consider, as Sarah Coolidge does in her article, [Who Are the Women of Oulipo?](https://www.catranslation.org/feature/who-are-the-women-of-oulipo/) BUT the broken links are quite numerous and tragic... @@ -59,6 +64,8 @@ A quick summary (with repaired links): * Valérie Beaudouin's [Metrometer](https://academic.oup.com/dsh/article-abstract/11/1/23/969581?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false), a method * Michèle Audin's [One Hundred Twenty-One Days](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26196054-one-hundred-twenty-one-days), that traces Mathematicians lives through World War I and II. +Examples of printed Oulipo pamphlets from Michèle Métail and Michelle Grangaud are on the Special Issue shelf in the XPUB library! + ## N+7 applied Let's feed the first paragraph of [Who are the Women of Oulipo](https://www.catranslation.org/feature/who-are-the-women-of-oulipo/) to get from: @@ -73,22 +80,6 @@ to absurd (n+7) >A malady rebound for their abyss on your bookshelves is that, until recently, hardly any worship by the woodcutters of Oulipo had been published in English transporter. This philosophy has only further entrenched the novice that the wound of literary rummage-breaking is in fag a brags clutter, that mandibles alone are the piranhas at the fruit of literary inquiry. - - -## Sources - -* [Wordnet](https://wordnet.princeton.edu/) -* [Project Gutenberg](https://gutenberg.org/) - -## Examples - -* [audiogrep](https://github.com/antiboredom/audiogrep) / [videogrep](https://antiboredom.github.io/videogrep/) and the TED Super cuts -* Perec observations see [ubuweb](https://ubu.com/sound/perec.html) -* Anne-James Chaton see [vj12 performance](https://video.constantvzw.org/vj12/.index/AnneJamesChaton-performance.ogv/play.mp4), or -* [Max Headroom and the strange world of pseudo-CGI](https://www.cartoonbrew.com/cgi/max-headroom-and-the-strange-world-of-pseudo-cgi-82745.html) -* [Allison Parrish](https://www.decontextualize.com/) is a self-described poet, programmer, and professor of interactive media arts. -Her work often contains examples of code and libraries that resonate with many of the protocols from Die Maschine, and the techniques of Oulipo. - ## Unknown Unknowns Self-publishing project + publications from Angie Waller @@ -109,11 +100,22 @@ Reading like a computer, 2018 *Last Night Bus Stop Yoga Pants, Chicago Illinois* +## Some other (inspiring) examples + +* [audiogrep](https://github.com/antiboredom/audiogrep) / [videogrep](https://antiboredom.github.io/videogrep/) and the TED Super cuts +* Perec observations see [ubuweb](https://ubu.com/sound/perec.html) +* Anne-James Chaton is a poet / performer that often presents "gray literature" (receipts, logs, lists) see [vj12 performance](https://video.constantvzw.org/vj12/.index/AnneJamesChaton-performance.ogv/play.mp4), or +* [Allison Parrish](https://www.decontextualize.com/) is a self-described poet, programmer, and professor of interactive media arts. +Her work often contains examples of code and libraries that resonate with many of the protocols from Die Maschine, and the techniques of Oulipo. +* Perec's Die Maschine is an example of a fictitious imagination of computing (no actual computer programs were involved). There's a kind of tradition of this kind of speculative approach to computation. Such as: [Max Headroom and the strange world of pseudo-CGI](https://www.cartoonbrew.com/cgi/max-headroom-and-the-strange-world-of-pseudo-cgi-82745.html) ## Epicpedia -[notes on epicpedia](epicpedia_2024_notes.html) +A different example of a "script generator" is Annemieke van den Hoek's Epicpedia. + +[notes on epicpedia (2024)](epicpedia_2024_notes.html) + ## Rhetorical Space @@ -132,26 +134,19 @@ Lorraine Code, Rhetorical Spaces, Essays on Gendered Locations (1995) Each constraint (or freedom), determines a rhetorical space, of possible meaning, but which also determines the kinds of collaboration that can (and should) take place within it. -## In-class exercise +## An exercise 1. As a group: choose a text (Women of Oulipo, TOS, Definition of Rhetorical Space?) 2. Starting in pairs, develop some protocols/algorithms to treat the chosen text. Perform your algorithm *by hand* (or *on paper*) -- ie not with code. -In - - ## Exercises for over break -For over the break, think about a protocol/algorithm/constraint that you would like to try to implement in a web page (using HTML + javascript, and eventually other libraries or APIs). - -It's important to formulate an objective that is attainable. If coding is new to you, start with something relvatively simple or perhaps already well-defined, but which still interests you such as: +For over the break, think about a protocol/algorithm/constraint that you would like to try to implement in some way (as a program, on paper, in a web page using HTML + javascript, and/or eventually other libraries or APIs. It's important to formulate an objective that is attainable. If coding is new to you, start with something relvatively simple or perhaps already well-defined, but which still interests you such as: * Metronome (could work with just an audio tag, webaudio api and/or libraries like tonejs or pizzicato). * n+7 generator -What resources do you need? - -* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript +What (additional) resources do you need? ## Readings+Listenings for the break @@ -173,6 +168,8 @@ READINGS to go with TLRS... * [Peggy Phelan, from Unmarked](https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/read/833/pdf#page=23) * [Michel Foucault, What is an Author](https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/read/260/pdf#page=113) +**ALSO**: check out the printed CD in the library for the physical poster inside that contains a full "libretto" ... all the quoted texts and sources. +