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Posted on 2014/12/05 by
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Boot Camp: “Composing a Backward Essay;” or: “Making Deformative Poetics with My Computer;” or: “How to Completely Erase Your Hard Drive;” or: “Sabotaging Conclusions”

The titles always come last. Before that, comes the final warning: This essay irrecoverably destroys data! Eulogy: I regard the wasted corpse that used to be my computer. Once glitched beyond repair, now a useless assemblage of titanium, plastic, wire and glass. Many of its sensual qualities remain: the keys that have embraced the impact of my Read More

Posted on 2014/11/30 by
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Emoticon Love, the Transmission of Affect and Breaking up via Text: New Ways to Map “Emoticontent”

Still feeling depressed after being dumped more than one month earlier, 2 has found difficulty in making sense of a range of negative emotions. Sad YouTube does not help. Nor do a variety of online psychological helpsites. After experimenting with an online “mood journal,” 2 reports an incapacity to “find words to type out the Read More

Posted on 2014/11/27 by
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Guitar Glitching? A Study of Absences

The Idea Struck by John Law’s article “Making A Mess With Method,” I became interested in the necessarily “othered” parts of research in general – those factors that are ignored or left out in any given experiment’s report which indeed likely have some sort of significance in any given experiment, its process and its results. Read More

Posted on 2014/11/19 by
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Working With Mess: Building Alternative Game Platforms

I got the idea of working with a spring-reverb after seeing Laetitia Sonami (http://sonami.net) performing in Steims Summerparty 2013. She was playing on a self-made instrument and we were watching her very first performance with it. The Lady Web is a spring-reverb taken apart and mounted on a metal ring. She performed together with James Read More

Posted on 2014/11/14 by
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Poetry As Waveforms, An Experiment

The Idea Faced with the task of engaging with waveforms, I decided to use a program that I have used for many years now for the purpose of audio recording: Adobe Audition 3.0. My idea was to have my peers and colleagues read three different poems, record the readings with Audition, and then compare how Read More

Posted on 2014/11/12 by
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Reading series/reading sound: a phonotextual analysis of the SpokenWeb digital archive (Al Flamenco, Aurelio Meza, Lee Hannigan)

The Reading Series In the past twenty or so years, a large number of poetry sound recordings have been collected and stored in online databases hosted by university institutions. The SpokenWeb digital archive is one such collection. Housed at Concordia University, SpokenWeb features over 89 sound recordings from a poetry reading series that took place Read More

Posted on 2014/10/26 by
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Google Maps as a Politic: A Conversation Between Aline & Lizy

This is our attempt to recreate the dialogue we have had while developing our Maps Boot Camp exercise. We recognized that the differences in our knowledge, personal, and academic practices/experiences would help, rather than hinder, our collaboration. “Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.” – Robert Quillen Rather than one Read More

Posted on 2014/10/08 by
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Dracula as Epistolary Database – Alanna, Jess and Hilary

For our Boot Camp, we worked together with programmers to create a database of the epistolary texts present in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Alanna on her conception of the Dracula database project: This project was a bit like diving into the deep end of a pool, never having seen water before. This is my first foray Read More

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