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Pierre Depaz edited this page Nov 27, 2017
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- week 1 - introduction
- week 2 - cuts/pastes
- week 3 - grammars
- week 4 - dialogues
- week 5 - hypertexts
- week 6 - sources
- week 7 - finals
- set up a class blog, and add it to the wiki page -it can be the same as for software art: image
- find one poem that you like, post about it on your blog and be prepared to discuss it in class. it can be in english, or in any language that you like.
- class introduction
- performing robots collaboration
- readings
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- virtual muse, charles o. hartman, chap 2.
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- on doubt, vilem flusser
- discussion
- introduction to python
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- input data, process data, output data
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- environments, modules, scraping, markov chains, speech
- first exercise: strachey's love letters.
meeting at 10:25am in C3-029
- introduce concepts for performing robots collaboration
- come into class with a strong concept that you have discussed with your collaborators. what is the main theme behind your vignette? what are some different ways that you can explore it?.
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- you're expected to show a moodboard (a collection of found images/text/videos that represent the overall atmosphere and feeling that you're aiming for)
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- as well as sketches (drawings/prototypes/montages you've made yourself)
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- and preliminary research (diagrams/pseudo-code on how you're going to make it happen)
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homework
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- find a textual dataset on the internet that you think is interesting (get inspiration from these but feel free to think outside the box!)
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- post samples of it on your blog and explain why it would be a good raw material for a computational poem.
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readings
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- virtual muse, charles o. hartman, chap. 5.
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overview of possible datasets
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scraping the web in python
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- using requests
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- using beautiful soup
- guest lecture - jill magi
- readings
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create your own dataset (e.g. by parsing a website, loading your own text messages, cross-referencing two datasets)
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post about it on your blog and add it to the class github
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python libraries
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- textblob
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- wordnik
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- python ttsx
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guest lecture: jill magi
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time to review, work on your final projects
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readings
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- computation as figures of thought, florian cramer
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- virtual muse, charles o. hartman, chap. 6-7.
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markov chains
- read/play one of the interactive fictions.
- blog about it. what did you like? what did you not like? what was your favorite moment? what did interactivity add? what did it remove?
- using all three concepts in class, generate three short paragraphs (three to six sentences)
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- one using an existing sentence and replacing synonyms with wordnet
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- one using an existing sentence and replacing random words with wordnik
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- one using markov chains to create a whole new sentence structure and using words either from an existing dataset
- post it on your blog
- readings
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- cybertext, espen aarseth
- making interactive fictions
- make sure that your speech program is loaded on the robot and ready for presentation.
- come into class ready to demo the internal aspect of your vignette. what is the performer thinking? what is she/he/it feeling? how does its physical expression complement its verbal expression?
- come into class ready to demo the external aspect of your vignette.
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- how is the actor moving? how is she/he/it reacting to its visual environment? what kind of space is suggested by the stage design (software art images) and how is the performer a part of it?
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- at this point, you should also prepare a pre-mortem, concluding with what is he bare minimum you would like to achieve.
- pick a poem from #! and post about it on your blog.
- readings
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- #!, nick montfort
- source code poetry
- work session for performing robots (speech or stage)
- tech rehearsal!
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- all groups will get together for a first run-through of all the vignettes.
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- by the end of the rehearsal, everybody should have a to-do list with things they need to change or fix in order of priority.
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dress rehearsal!
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- this class is the last one before the IM show. it will be the last opportunity to test any changes and improvements you've made and make sure that your vignette is a coherent, compelling whole which runs smoothly.
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work session
- class recap