It's inspired a whole Mastodon instance where no e's are one of the central requirements for posting on the social network:
* <https://oulipo.social/about>
## Oulipo *zines*
Oulipo worked with members who produced limited edition pamphlets (basically zines).
<https://oulipo.net/fr/publications>
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/)
## Who are the Women of Oulipo? (a constraint ;)
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...
@ -37,20 +64,9 @@ 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.
## Oulipo *zines*
## Algorithm
N+7 is useful as an example of an *algorithm*.
Examples of printed Oulipo pamphlets from Michèle Métail and Michelle Grangaud are on the Special Issue shelf in the XPUB library!
## N+7
<http://www.spoonbill.org/n+7/>
## 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:
@ -64,42 +80,42 @@ 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.
## Unknown Unknowns
Self-publishing project + publications from Angie Waller
## Sources
<https://www.unknownunknowns.org/>
* [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.
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## Some other (inspiring) examples
Example.
* [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.
## Han Kang as script...
[notes on epicpedia (2024)](epicpedia_2024_notes.html)
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.
## An exercise
## 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 chosen text. Perform your algorithm *by hand* (or *on paper*) -- ie not with code.
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.
## 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:
* Metronome (could work with just an audio tag, webaudio api and/or libraries like tonejs or pizzicato).
* n+7 generator
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):
Michael Murtaugh