A2Z-F24

Introduction

“Constrained” Writing / “Algorithmic” Writing

• Constrained Writing Slides
• “Cut-ups”
  • Cut-up Method from Leroi Jones, ed., The Moderns: An Anthology of New Writing in America (NY: Corinth Books, 1963).
  • Cut-up machine
• “Erasures”
  • Erasure Poetry
• “N+7” or “V+__”
  • N+7 technique
  • N+7 machine
• Jackson Mac Low and the Diastic Technique
  • Excerpt from Virtual Muse: Experiments In Computer Poetry pgs. 95-96
  • Science, Technology, and Poetry: Some Thoughts on Jackson Mac Low
  • Online Diastic generator

p5.js DOM Review

• Beyond the Canvas, p5.js tutorial
• What is HTML? (video)
• What is CSS? (video)
• Creating DOM Elements with p5.js (video)
• CSS Property Reference

p5.js Loading Text (videos)

• Text from user: input, textarea
• Text from file: loadStrings()
• Text from file: drag and drop

JavaScript String (videos)

• JavaScript String object (video)
• JavaScript String object (docs)
• Creating a Diastic Machine

Code Examples

• All web editor examples
• Older 2018 Notes and Examples

Workflow (videos)

• WorkFlow videos for local development outside of the p5 web editor: VSCode, Shell, Node, Git, Python venv

Assignment

1. Accept invitation to class Discord and Google Group mailing list.

2. Read / watch

   • The Eyeo Festival was an incredible conference that ran from 2011 to 2022, bringing together “a rich intersection of people doing fascinating things with technology.” So many talks of the talks are highly relevant to the material in this class for the semester, pick one to watch and let’s share what you learned in class next week! Here are some suggestions: Stefanie Posavec 2022, Stephanie Dinkins 2019, Sarah Goff Hennigh-Palermo 2019, Janelle Shane 2018, Darius Kazemi 2016, Allison Parrish 2015.
   • Introduction and Chapter 8 (which includes section on Jackson Mac Low’s diastic) from Virtual muse experiments in computer poetry, Charles O. Hartman 1949- Project Muse., Hanover, NH : University Press of New England c1996 - login via NYU for access to downloadable PDFs
3. Using a source text of your choosing, manually perform one of the “constrained writing” techniques described above (or one of your own invention!) Document your results online in whatever format you like—blog post, notion, p5 web editor, Glitch, GitHub pages. There is no need for programming for this assignment, it’s just about getting set up in an environment and starting to think about creative ways to play with text. However, you may choose to include animated or interactive elements if you like. Think about creative ways for the page to be “self-documenting”, i.e. instructions for the text mashup, references, etc. In case it’s helpful I talk through this assignment in an this now 8 years old 2016 A2Z Homework video.

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• Name – assignment title
• Weber – HW1
• Michal Shoshan – week o1 TEXT-INPUT
• Joyce – Happy Filter
• Seun Elemo – Constrained Writing / Algorithmic Writing
• Lening – Assignment 1
• Cara – Week 1 - letter play
• LovelyA72 – Assignment1
• Xiaoan (Sean) – rhymes replacement
• Wallis –week 1 — Constrained words
• Lening – Chinese N+7
• Zhiyang – Complex your sentence
• Shun – week 1
• Caroline – Week1