NORIGINALS: The Art of Uncreativity

A multiplatform project about the future of creativity in a digital age.

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It's Like Tweeting, But You Can't Use the Letter E

Mastodon has an instance with some very specific rules and people are into it.

Oulipo.social is fun!

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Old Masters for the Digital Age on Sotheby's Blog

New York creative duo Molly Young and Teddy Blanks set about creating their own emoji sticker pack when they felt what was already on offer...

“Specialists at The Mauritshuis in The Hague recently reached out to suggest that we include a 1670 Jan Steen painting from their collection in our app. The suggested painting features an exceptional crying toddler and we were delighted to transform the little guy into an emoji.”

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Come check Colin Rothfels' poetry generator POETASTR at the International Digital Arts Biennal of Montreal, from April to June 2016 at the Place-des-Arts' ARTVstudio.

With the support of the ICI ARTV Digital Arts Grant.

Thanks to ARTVstudio, Pierre-Anaïs Parent St-Gelais and Jonathan Grenier.

http://bianmontreal.ca/en/program/poetastr

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POETASTR gets ICI ARTV Grant

#Poetastr, a poetry generator that’s part of the NORIGINALS multiplatform project, is one of the 2015 ICI ARTV Digital Arts Grantees. It will be presented at the ICI ARTV Studio in Montreal during the 2015-2016 season.

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I’m very happy today to be able to introduce a new project I’ve been working on for a while, Sad YouTube Books. For the last several months I’ve been organizing and cataloguing the over 550 stories...

Check out @noriginals_doc co-director Mark Slutsky’s new SAD YOUTUBE free ebook series, coming out this Spring and throughout the summer.

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POETASTR goes to Interactive at Sheffield

Poetastr, the poetry generator that’s part of the NORIGINALS project, has been nominated for the Sheffield Doc/Fest Interactive Award and will be performed by code artist Colin Rothfels at the Interactive at Sheffield exhibition program.

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http://www.newsweek.com/people-who-perform-internet-286295

Great piece about The Blogologues and Sad YouTube.

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NORIGINALS at the 2014 Pixel Market

NORIGINALS is among the 32 international crossmedia projects selected at the 2014 Powel to the Pixel Finance Market. We're looking forward to meet with potential funders, curators and partners from around the world to help us putting this thing off the ground next year!

Thanks to La SODEC for helping us attending this amazing event.

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Cory Arcangel interview: "Working on My Novel"

"Working on My Novel" is a book of tweets of people claiming to be working on their novel. 'Curauteur' Cory Arcangel says why and how.

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Making Music Out of Internet Video Sensations

YouTube just doesn't stop to be this compelling place to discover new, accidentally-conceptual material year in, year out. Turning jumping cats or Obama's speech into musical collages thanks to cheap, customised editing suites was all the rage a few years ago. Posting homemade live-sync, single camera, instrumental renditions of classic rock artefacts still continues to attract a lot of basement, amateur musicians. And you cannot count anymore the number of musicless/wordless videoclip experiments or shredded version of hit songs.

Unlikely duet composites not dissimilar to Cory Arcangel'S 00s web stunts started emerging online lately, as musicians filmed themselves making music out of non-musical, Internet viral sensations. There has been the Heavy Metal reconstruction of the "Have you ever had a dream" kid video, then Dan Weiss' drum interpretation of auctioneer Ty Thompson, but the pinnacle of this phenomenon would be both the guitar and the piano relectures of the Internet viral video of Japanese politician Ryutaro Nonomura sobbing over dubious spending at a news conference on July 2014.

These are real gems of both detournement performances, and just good plain musicianship. One could find echos of found poetry, late-night imitation comedy, or even see this as a new, more sophisticated twist to the strange and short-lived breed of animal-led 00s bands such as death metal unit Hatebeak and grindcore quintet Caninus, which composed their songs to fit previously recorded 'vocal' tracks performed respectively by a singing/screaming parrot and a female pit bull terrier duo.

Thanks for sharing other weird duet composites on our Twitter feed @NORIGINALS_doc.

http://youtu.be/gmFEpC9qlTw?list=RD-ApwKs3eU9g

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French Gen-Mo Touch

French art duo @ebroutmmarion are into algorithmic and generative cinema. And it's pretty cool. Check out their work at http://eb-mm.net/

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Zazzle bot products 

Generative designs found on the Zazzle Marketplace. Sometimes a bot will stumble upon a bad choice of words such as ” I laugh at Cancer, I’m a nurse”.

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What Matters to Adrian Chen This Week

Adrien Chen on @everyword, Adam Parrish and poet Jackson Mac Low

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ARST ARSW: Star Wars sorted alphabetically -- all of the English dialogue in "Star Wars", split into words, and sorted alphabetically.

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A protest bot is a bot so specific you can’t mistake it for bullshit

A Call for Bots of Conviction

A Call to Arms by Mark Sample on Medium.

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After seven years and 109,229 tweets, @everyword is on the brink of tweeting every word in the English language.

"The man behind @everyword, a programmer and New York University professor named Adam Parrish, suspects his creation is the most widely read piece of conceptual literature in existence."

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'THE YOLO PAGES' trailer! SCARY IF WATCH FULLSCREEN BRAVE

Order the book at - http://www.boost-house.com/store/the-yolo-pages the yolo pages is an epic anthology of poems, tweets, image macros, and prose from over 5...

Check out Boost House's new THE YOLO PAGES anthology trailer.