Week 1 Homework

1. Sign up for the A2Z Google Group
2. Add something that inspires you to this page of references.
3. Read / watch
   • Darius Kazemi Eyeo Talk
   • Lynn Cherny Eyeo Talk
   • Virtual Muse excerpt (sent via e-mail)
4. Find a source text and manually perform one of the mashup techniques below (or one of your own invention.) Create a webpage with the results using some combination of HTML, CSS, and/or JavaScript. Host the page on GitHub pages (or your own server). 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.
   • "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
     • Make an online Erasure
   • "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

Questions?

• add your question here

Add your name / link to your assignment below

• Dan -- word reverser - this is the example I made in class that reverse the order of words in an array.
• Chelsea --superCoUnT -Since they cancelled Automatic Video this semester, I thought why not make my own version superCut. To see which word Dan used the most, simply copy & paste a youtube video (I'm using coding challenge#75 you can choose your own favorite), click the button and give it 5 seconds!
• Mengzhen -- word order - The example Dan did in class made me think about the word order in different languages. So I made a machine which can (manually) compare the differences between English word order and Mandarin word order.
• Joohyun -- Variation on Barack Obama’s 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Speech - A variation on Obama's 2009 Nobel Peace Prize speech reorganized with randomly selected words from the original text.
• James --DLT - What would it be to remove the most frequently appeared letter?
• Shawn --cut the words out -Implemented the cut out method.
• Itay --Explore interesting word contrasts and their meaning
• Yuhao --Speech without vowels
• Amena -- The N+7 procedure used on a Quranic excerpt about gender equality, and the passage got funnier at each iteration
• Yeonhee -- Keyword-based Caesar Cipher
• Ella -- Diastic Name - Generates random personalities of your name!
• Assel -- What is life?
• Zahra -- Reverse
• Jenna -- Future-soothing, markov-generated fortunes
• Hadar -- Charles Bukowski
• Ilana -- How to make a Dada.io poem
• Chuyi -- Jumbled Text Generator