Here are a couple of quick sketches for Failure: Cameras positioned above each screen shoot the data representation and render the image as well as possible. Gallery visitors interrupt the camera’s path causing data dropouts in the rendered image.
Monthly Archives: April 2007
the memex twists
I’m watching the Scrybe overview video especially the part about pulling clippings from the web. The demo user is grabbing a variety of content and putting it on a new web page in her own space. Here’s an important difference between Vannevar Bush’s idea of the Memex and what the web has become. We’re still [...]
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language as the sixth sense
With John Searle telling me in one ear that the structure of language closely resembles thought, and Noam Chomsky summarizing his ideas on embedded grammars, I’m starting to formulate a strange new take on the world. Add to this the certainty their passionate and well-reasoned demonstrations that there is no split between the mind and [...]
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100% Austen, notes on method
Somebody asked me to describe my method over the weekend. It’s been a long time since I wrote the text generator, but this is what I recall. First you gather the model writing into a database. Guternerg.org provided ASCII transcriptions of the complete works of Jane Austen which I strung end to end in a [...]