February 22nd, 2009
Show

So, my show was last week. Here is some documentation of the work.
The work that I did for the show are three different texts that were generated from a Processing sketch that I wrote. I was interested in William Burrough’s cut-up technique and using that as a starting point. So the sketch that I wrote does a web search on a term, returning the entire text from the top ten site related to that search term. Those texts are then broken into sentences, brought together, and reassembled at random into new texts. For this show, I chose to only assemble paragraphs. I choose related search terms for this — “free market,” “drunkenness,” and “decadence” — with each work representing a different term.
Hit me up if you are interested in the source code (its a bit loose to send out into the world at the moment).
Below are details of the work. Click on them for a close up.




February 22nd, 2009 at 2:35 am
Love it. It can be so difficult to believe such beauty can be randomly generated. Love the idea of random text generation. really nice work thanks
paul
February 22nd, 2009 at 2:36 am
Thanks! I really appreciate it.
-Ian
February 25th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
really awesome! can you assemble a single image based on the same sort of criteria?
February 26th, 2009 at 12:10 am
Yeah, I don’t see why not
May 31st, 2009 at 11:10 pm
[...] work that will be going into the show this week and _ Quarterly. It’s a continuation of my previous work with text cut up, this time using news feeds from major news sources as the source, capturing and recontextualizing [...]