Wednesday, January 8, 2003

The Show Must Go On! While I figure out where to upload some funny pottery oriented material..I need to get back to the show idea from Sunday How to title the pieces? There are a couple of approaches to take in coming up with titles for the pieces. One could go the 'usual' way by thinking up titles from the various title types: Evocative (The sea awaits), Expository (Experiment in processes and found objects) Descripting (Mug), Cataloging (Opus 43), Decline to State (untitled) (That's my list of title types, let me know of others.) I could require a process for the Installer of the exhibit (you?) to come up with their own tile. I could have the 'title' be a URL from which one would get the actual title (and it could change.) Another way to go is to use something else to come up with a title. Here are two ways: Random: Aleatory and aleatoric compositions that depend on chance. Potters are well known to utilize the chance effects that occur in a wood fire of raku to generate pleasing results. Perhaps some free assocaition or random clicks through the web to collect words? Algorithmic: Members of the Institue of Artificial Art Amsterdam have an interesting take on art and automatic literature, that we could consider: Art is not a means of communication. It is meaningless raw material, to be used in open-ended processes of esthetic reflection by a culturally diverse audience whose interpretations are totally arbitrary. There are no serious reasons for making one particular artwork rather than another. Remko Scha ...In the meantime, however, there has been a lot of progress in research areas such as formal syntax, logical semantics, corpus linguistics, story grammars, knowledge representation, parsing technology, speech recognition and voice simulation. The books that I am longing [faor], can therefore now finally be [rih-taxn]. And they [w"ihl] be [rih-taxn]. But [n"aat] by human persons. They will be [rih-taxn] by [kaampy"uwtaxr] programs. Conclusion. So far, most literature was journalism, concerned with the petty feelings and silly [aop'ihnyaxnz] of individual human persons. Literature has not been geared toward the production of [t'ehks-chuwaxl] objects suitable for disinterested aesthetic reflection. But if we allow the computer to take ["owvaxr], we may now finally be able to develop a [tr"uwliy] artistic literary practice. (not sure why the odd words in the parentheticals, but I will keep them in- JN) Algorithic Literature"October 19, 1995 Lecture by Huge Harry Probably not exactly what the folks at Institue of Artificial Art Amsterdam had in mind, but here's The Genuine Haiku Generator at everypoet.com (or some similar ones.) hmmmm...maybe all of these? 11:02:19 PM