Digital Language Art

The dynamic nature of digital language art as a medium was what the readings focused most on. I was really interested in the notion of how to think about traditional art as digital art brought up in "Digital Oulipo: Programming Potential Literature." Specifically, the Cent mille milliards de poemes , which humanizes computer generated poetry. When I think of computer generated poetry, I think of a random assortment of non-meaningful words and sentences. However, visualizing it as a compilation of different poems composed by a person whose lines can be isolated and reconfigured by turning pages and make some sense brings in the human actor that I would otherwise not have even thought about. Computer generated poetry isn't just random words stacked together, it's randomness with a purpose in mind which is a point "Context Free Grammars" brings up in explaining how people are able to program computers to make meaningful sentences. A really good example of compu...

I learned how to use Adobe Animate for this. CW: Depiction of panic.

The following is a transcript from a group chat read by the Adobe Audition text-to-speech feature. The purpose is to highlight the fact that our minds create inflections and ironic undertones that differ greatly from the flat text. Group Chat

The image taken from Internet Poetry I think encapsulates Schifani's discussion of "shallowness" in electronic literature, and how electronic literature, though it is flat, can really have a depth to it depending on the intent of the artist. I think this image gets across the message that, even though seemingly "shallow" media (like cat videos that Schifani mentions) circulates the internet, technology actually has the potential to bolster our creativity as long as we build upon digital art, as long as we "DO NOT LET THE FIRE DIE." The image taken from Ana Uribe's website is one of her poems entitled " It's Raining ." Similarly, I think it connects to Schifani's idea of "flatness." Even though the poem itself seems flat and simple, it is actually quite experiential if read aloud.  Uribe repeats the word "gota" ("raindrop" in English) throughout the poem, slowly squishing the letters closer ...

Before reading the articles, I did not know much about electronic literature, let alone that it was a medium of literature that was gaining popularity. I found one particular point in the "Principles of New Media" article interesting—digital language art is a collaboration between human creation and computer interface. It is an idea that should seemingly be common sense, but that I personally did not think about before. Prosthesis was particularly interesting when thinking about the idea of human/computer collaboration to create art. Ian Hatcher sampled his own voice for his work but implemented the samples in a way that sounded computerized and artificial but still somehow human, as though it were in were in between the two. I feel like this concept highlights digital language art being partly human and partly digital, and how it can manipulate language in ways that traditional art like creative writing and oration cannot. "Long Rong Song," too, utilized coding ...