Summary and Recommendations | Beyond Productivity is a report by National Academy of Sciences that looks at the importance of fostering creativity and information technology. The report looks at how creativity emerges and the need to support play.
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Text Toy Language 2
The grammar of TBC (Text by Code) should have:
– Primitives: Paths, Glyphs, Characters, Words, Strings, and Element
– Methods: To get text, parse it into primitives, manipulate it, place it, render it, and make it move.
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Valence
valence | ars 2001 | benjamin fry is a work that uses text visualization to explore two German texts by Goethe and Wittgenstein.
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Text Toy Language
Text By Numbers. Is it possible to design an interactive text toy development language? Has this been done, or do we have the tools already? Can we do this in the spirit of Design By Numbers or Proce55ing?
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Eunoia
Christian Bˆk Eunoia Toronto: Coach House Books, http://www.chbooks.com/online/eunoia/index.html, 2001 is a book with Oulipian experiments. Eunoia is written with a chapter for each vowel. Each chapter works within constraints, one of which is to use all words that only use that vowel. The chapters also begin with something about writing. There is a Flash version of the Chapter on E online along with the full text of the other chapters.
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Patterns for Web Usability
ACM Ubiquity Review: A Pattern Language for Web Usability. This review is of a book by Ian Graham (not, I think, the Graham of the HTML books) on applying pattern thinking to web usability. The interesting thing is the way patterns are becoming a form of interdisciplinary theorizing.
http://www.trireme-international.com/Wu/whatis.htm
Radiohead Pictures
H A I L T O T H E T H I E F is a page in the www.radiohead.com site where they have some neat word orientied shows done in Flash. The “89 instances of LA” is a series of found texts that flash by. The last one “No Way out” is intriguing – it is a black box navigating like a car around a Mondrian cityscape while words flash below.
Literary Devices
Here is short review of what should be an important short story:grandtextauto: ‘Literary Devices’. Richard Powers, the author, wrote Galatea 2.0 which proposes a humanities computing Turing test. (Computer must pass an English MA test.) In Literary Devices the author, Powers, interacts with a story generator.
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Design By Numbers
Design By Numbers is a book and a programming language that you can experiment with at this site. It is a simple language documented in Maeda’s book. The language is to introduce graphic designers to programming (designing by numbers!)
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Wagner and Multimedia
Wagner in an essay on the “Outlines of the Artwork of the Future” argued that theatre (opera) was the most fully realised and free art as it combined all other arts. See the web site for Multimedia; From Wagner to Virtual Reality.
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