and so i have completed my final project for Digital Writing in the Genres.
it is an interactive composition entitled "composition one"
you can find it here: http://mason.gmu.edu/~jtucker6/digwriting/finalproject.html
!!!
01 May 2008
17 April 2008
final project ideas
For my final project, I hope to incorporate interactive text with sound. I would like to deal with human emotional responses and how they can be translated into an aural experience; I'm not completely sure how I will do it yet. Some ideas on how I might involve word associations, textual and aural cut-ups, and a "choose your own adventure" type piece where the audience clicks through screens with a huge assortment of outcomes and combinations of processes. This might take some pretty basic programming and I might have to brush up on my web editing stuff but I think I could do something interesting/not boring/fun/and maybe provide insight into thee human experience??
27 March 2008
group project
group project:
I'll be working with Andrew Kirby and Phillip Rigby on our collaborative project. We will be bringing in our separate elements in order to create a greater thing.
Andrew will be doing video, borrowing a fancy video camera from star labs and shooting something chaotic in a parking lot somewhere. I will use sounds of my own creation and possibly some found online (creative commons or public domain) and compose a piece to accompany the video.
Phillip is interested in writing for the project, so we hope he can write a review with his opinion of our video/sound creation.
I'll be working with Andrew Kirby and Phillip Rigby on our collaborative project. We will be bringing in our separate elements in order to create a greater thing.
Andrew will be doing video, borrowing a fancy video camera from star labs and shooting something chaotic in a parking lot somewhere. I will use sounds of my own creation and possibly some found online (creative commons or public domain) and compose a piece to accompany the video.
Phillip is interested in writing for the project, so we hope he can write a review with his opinion of our video/sound creation.
13 February 2008
Schone Neue Welt (Remix, Remodel)
my ideas for remix-town --------------
I'd like to combine my works with some available for public consumption and remixing.
My ideas and the ideas of others can come together for some greater, expansive purpose ---
I don't want to use Flash for my project. I'd rather use barebones HTML to communicate a lo-fi relation and intertangling of all the arts I use.
I'm interested in using my own sounds with different public domain or Creative Commons video clips to create something SURREAL.
this will be fun
here is my new and improved WEBSITE
http://mason.gmu.edu/~jtucker6/digwriting/digwriting.html
with my sparkling ADVENTURES IN KNOWING MY RIGHTS
!!!!!!!
I'd like to combine my works with some available for public consumption and remixing.
My ideas and the ideas of others can come together for some greater, expansive purpose ---
I don't want to use Flash for my project. I'd rather use barebones HTML to communicate a lo-fi relation and intertangling of all the arts I use.
I'm interested in using my own sounds with different public domain or Creative Commons video clips to create something SURREAL.
this will be fun
here is my new and improved WEBSITE
http://mason.gmu.edu/~jtucker6/digwriting/digwriting.html
with my sparkling ADVENTURES IN KNOWING MY RIGHTS
!!!!!!!
31 January 2008
my electronic literature collection interaction
birds singing other birds' songs
The piece from the Electronic Literature Collection that I dug the most was "Bird Singing Other Birds' Songs" by Maria Mencia, an interactive, glowing experience involving the relationship between sound and text and image. Human singers interpret transcribed bird calls, and the audience of the piece can click and layer as many of the 12 sound-image meshes as they choose. I loved being able to watch 12 very different interpretations of flying, gliding, and dissolving birds made out of the text of their calls while listening to the click-chirp human voices accompanying each one. Being able to arrange them was fun and a dee-light. For a real wild ride I had them all going at once, "za-wee chick chock" saturation of sounds and juxtaposition of sights. The background is a mesmerizing fluffy cloudscape.
This piece was close to the epitome of what I desire from Electronic Literature. Sometimes I get bored if things don't get too mixed up or don't ask me to participate in some way. I really, really love the twists and turns and angles of letters, especially when they're disassociated from the words they can create (with a few of the text-bird creations of this piece you can't tell what the bird-call they're made up of is supposed to say... the letters float around or are too far jumbled to tell). The art of the sound and the act of interpreting text of another animal's call into human voice reminds me of the beauty you to bee found using a free-translator program on the internet; taking a phrase and going back and forth between languages with it, you find end up finding something poetic, semi-random, and very different from the original. You learn to look at the phrase with a freer mind and wonder all about its infinite implications. Hearing the poetry of sing-song human voices acting as birds reminds us not to overly define anythings existence, but to think about how we construct ideas about realities.
I expected Electronic Literature to be what it is: work that expands the concept of "literature" to include our real present existence as creatures in a realm of multimedia, where our analog selves have started to merge with our newer, digital surroundings.
Art is always expanding --- I think that in the future "Electronic Literature" will just become "literature".
The piece from the Electronic Literature Collection that I dug the most was "Bird Singing Other Birds' Songs" by Maria Mencia, an interactive, glowing experience involving the relationship between sound and text and image. Human singers interpret transcribed bird calls, and the audience of the piece can click and layer as many of the 12 sound-image meshes as they choose. I loved being able to watch 12 very different interpretations of flying, gliding, and dissolving birds made out of the text of their calls while listening to the click-chirp human voices accompanying each one. Being able to arrange them was fun and a dee-light. For a real wild ride I had them all going at once, "za-wee chick chock" saturation of sounds and juxtaposition of sights. The background is a mesmerizing fluffy cloudscape.
This piece was close to the epitome of what I desire from Electronic Literature. Sometimes I get bored if things don't get too mixed up or don't ask me to participate in some way. I really, really love the twists and turns and angles of letters, especially when they're disassociated from the words they can create (with a few of the text-bird creations of this piece you can't tell what the bird-call they're made up of is supposed to say... the letters float around or are too far jumbled to tell). The art of the sound and the act of interpreting text of another animal's call into human voice reminds me of the beauty you to bee found using a free-translator program on the internet; taking a phrase and going back and forth between languages with it, you find end up finding something poetic, semi-random, and very different from the original. You learn to look at the phrase with a freer mind and wonder all about its infinite implications. Hearing the poetry of sing-song human voices acting as birds reminds us not to overly define anythings existence, but to think about how we construct ideas about realities.
I expected Electronic Literature to be what it is: work that expands the concept of "literature" to include our real present existence as creatures in a realm of multimedia, where our analog selves have started to merge with our newer, digital surroundings.
Art is always expanding --- I think that in the future "Electronic Literature" will just become "literature".
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