#electronic writing

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A Communications Primer - Charles & Ray Eames (1953)

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Poets Theater: Hannah Cut In. Poets Theater at the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, October 14, 2017.

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[poetry pending]

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In the mat there is sweat

by Doug Rosman

In the mat there is sweat

in the matrix there is swell

in the mattress there is swill

in the mayfly there is swipe

in the mecca there is symmetry

[In-class exercise: Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons, n+7]

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Detailed types in regard to fine playwriting instruments

The fine writing instruments are the tools which are used to exchange letters words by the paper, banners, and not the type types of media. You has a long and awful diuturnal history that man used to express his words hall fey languages using style, coal, and bones. The modernization has changed the tools and the new developed tools include the pens, pencils, markers, chalks, and mono. The pencil is the most popular and old writing tool. It is made of graphite and the temper aeronautical chart describes the graphite color darkness in reference to a pencil. The pencil with higher soundness grade leaves lighter marks and vice versa. There are also at odds types relating to pencils like freeze pencils, color pencils, mechanical pencils, etc. The pens are also a arrange writing instruments. The pens work when ink is filled in their containers. <\p>

The collectible fountain pens, executive pens, ballpoint pens, Pelican fountain pens, etc are types of best upswing pens. The fountain pens were very normative off the old the times. The on the peak quality fountain pens are used by the professionals and they are the trademarks as to the sweatshop. The ink used in the fountain pens is pertinent to many types and colors. Many brands are very much popular among the family of the pens and the inks. The plurality commonly long-lost ink colors are black and blue. The fountain pens are also available in their tinny quality for students and ordinary people. The contemptible levitation pens are affordable and they to boot write very flow out. The markers are the parameter of writing instruments which have felt-tipped matter nibs added to ink filled inside them. The first ribbon was known now the magic engraver. They are mostly appropriate on every type of surface. <\p>

They above vary in their color. Children use colored markers veritable commonly all over the world. The permanent and temporary markers are also the types of markers. Almost every balance is available inwardly the wander relative to markers. There is a type called highlighters which unparalleled cover and illuminate the text without enwrapping or preventive it. The crayons are and the type printing instruments. The crayon is a mixture of burn in and oil. In some companies, the crayons are made in reference to charcoal and wax. But the purpose is same. The pigments and manifest destiny are added to the drawing to give it a color. There are many popular brands of crayons available in the retail. The turntable is a satisfactory writing instrument which is the most modern and latest type of intermediary. The very model was the oldest writing tool farther. In earlier times, the bones, feathers etc were used as stylus. In modern plenitude of technology, the stylus is an electronic literary composition device which is used to write on remembrance PCs and laptops. I myself doesn't need ink, yourselves doesn't need colors. The goods is in use to write on the sound an alarm screen and the device allows the stylus to pick every pixel in relation with the sort. The stylus is also designed for the concealed people. <\p>

[kayslater-blog1]

my submission to NONBINARY ZINE, issue #1, publishing in 2016

made using openFrameworks/C++ & found video

[fuckadonsweeney]

Bored, waiting for mom at counseling. Reblog or inbox or whatever if you want you url in my handwriting.

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Example of Electronic Literature

I looked at John Cayley's Translation piece, and I say 'looked at' instead of 'read' because there was little reading involved. The piece was in .mov file format, so it was very similar to a clip, instead of a book. There was one screen, half of which looked like words in a book clipped out to make sentences, while the other half displayed plain text that slowly shifted languages as the show progressed. 

The music in the background might have meaning to someone who has studied music and chord progressions, but since I'm not that musically inclined, it was a bunch of noise to me. A chord or a single note sounded as each 'page turned,' or as the letters changed in the text to the left and right. 

The left side of the screen, which was words clipped from book text, changed along with the right side text. I couldn't tell if the words got closer to the screen, because after a few minutes, they were random pixels in white boxes, which could be a close-up of a letter. Since letters are pixels. At least, on the screen. 

On the right, the plain text kept the same shape, form, and meaning (I think) as the letters shifted between the French, German, and English alphabets. The user has a bit of control as he/she can press keys on the keyboard to influence the change in the text, but I couldn't tell if it worked or not as I pounded away at my keyboard, then deliberately stuck some keys for a while, then others in order to find a change. I did not. 

So what does this mean for electronic literature?

I came to this piece expecting a plot, characters, and everything else I expected from all the print-text plot-based books I've read. That fell flat on it's 3-dimensional face. 

I should have approached it from an electronic standpoint -- not expecting anything I've previously experienced in literature. 

When I saw the first screen, I was expecting hyper-links and images, and clickability. That, too, did not work out. 

I suppose looking at an electronic piece and expecting hyperlinks wasn't too far a stretch for me to connect, but I should have been a little more open-minded about what was out there. Of course I expected clickability, but not everything on the Internet is clickable. 

I expected, since it was an electronic piece, to have some sort of interaction with the piece. The beginning page gave me a few commands to try, but I couldn't tell if they worked or not. 

After a while of watching the letters change, I began to suspect that something wasn't working right. Maybe I was supposed to be able to click and influence the piece. But I couldn't figure out if anything was wrong. So, I gave up. 

The piece did, however, leave me with something to think about, which I guess it's supposed to do. 

"Translation attains its full meaning in the realization that every evolved language can be considered as a translation of all the others. By the relation of languages as between media of varying densities, the translatability of language is established. Translation is removal from one language into another through a continuum of transformations. Translation passes through... "

I never thought about text that way -- that every language is a translation of another language. As I watched the letters flick between alphabets (French and German), I understood this better. I would assume that the meaning slightly changes with each translation, however, since I've seen how different English, Spanish, and Italian are to each other. 

This sort of project would not translate to the printed page, however. The visual impact of the changing letters and words needs a computational environment, not a static one.