Aesthetic Animism by Johnston David Jhave;

Author:Johnston, David Jhave;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2016-06-08T04:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. In 1993, Funkhouser wrote his first digital literature work while inside a multiuser object-oriented (MOO), text-based, client-server virtual space developed in 1990, capturing and logging his excursions, and making books based on these virtual excursions “which are absolutely unpublishable … because I would never be able to get the permissions. … It’s like a novel where I am walking through cyberspace” (quoted in Jhave 2012a). In 1995, Funkhouser also published the Little Magazine—in his own terms, possibly the first CD-ROM poetry release in the United States. The era can be seen as one of a series of fluid boundaries between page and interactive screen. It was around the browser launch of Mozilla (Netscape) in 1993 that the Internet blossomed into a space where exploratory processes of navigation and experimentation with online sharing began to be widespread. Ironically in 2015, as this book is in final corrections, Funkhouser does (in spite of his earlier objections) succeed in publishing his MOO excursions book, as Whereis Mineral: Selected Adventures in MOO, http://www.gauss-pdf.com/post/131025754200/gpdf187gpdfe019-chris-funkhouser-whereis/.

2. For a detailed biographical description of the inadvertent path Strachey took to arrive at this first poetry, and a detailed examination of the implications of its processes, see Wardrip-Fruin 2011.

3. Baudot’s text continues: “Technological development of recent decades has taught us to be astonished by the power of machines. We know that machines are work tools. It’s with them that we progress. In this domain, computers—loosely called electronic brains—play a major role. … Our goal was to observe how a machine behaves after it has been taught a little grammar and has at its disposal a constrained lexicon (630 words approximately). In order to avoid introducing, consciously or unconsciously, bias taken in the choice of words placed at the disposition of the computer, we decided to extract a manual of French of the simplest level possible.“To that end we chose the manual of the 4th year actually used in our schools and entitled ‘My French Book’ (Brothers of the Sacred Heart). The 630 corpus represents about half of the words utilized in the manual. All the words utilized are therefore simple and at the level of a 10 year olds vocabulary.“During the research, the machine having been appropriately programmed was left running overnight. Imagine our surprise the next morning to discover it had printed thousands of phrases and it seemed as if it could continue without stopping. This volume represents a sample of those phrases composed by automated processes. The phrases are reproduced as they appeared, even if sometimes the temptation was strong to modify them slightly. I leave it to the reader, literati or amateur of new styles, to their own conclusions.”

4. Sophie Jodoin, Quebec-based visual artist.

5. Similar speculations have motivated the search for the neuronal correlate of consciousness by Christof Koch and Francis Crick.

6. Judd Morrissey and Alan Sondheim, among others, explore these approaches.

7. After years of being insulated from mass distribution behind a paywall of limited editions and museum collections, Hill began in 2010 to upload segments of his work to Vimeo, and then in late 2014 uploaded a set of twenty videos.

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