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Semiotic
Considerations in an Artificial Intelligence-Based
Art Practice [English]
Michael Mateas
combines artificial intelligence (AI) research and
art marking, a practice he calls Expressive AI. AI
consists of coupled rhetorical and technical
strategies for structuring computational processes.
Artists can consciously manipulate these strategies
so as to build machines with powerful authorial
affordances for crafting audience experiences.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/3-mateas.htm
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Word For
Word. Encoding, Networking, and Intention
[English]
The very nature
of the online literary journal Word For/Word
invites non-linear, non-sequential readings, thus
making it problematic to think of its assembled
works only as discrete, autonomous texts. Jonathan
Minton thinks of an underlying "intention" in terms
of textual encoding (Intention not as the
manifestation of an author's "original" idea, but
an always on-going textual drift) and explores the
methods in which JavaScript can clarify this
dynamic and seemingly infinite drift of textual
intention by encoding and particularizing its
recombinant processes.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/3-minton.htm
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The Computer as
a Prosthetic Organ of Philosophy
[English]
David Rokeby
looks at issues of language and encoding from the
perspective of computer programming. He discusses
the different relationships between code and
encoder/decoder in computer coding and human
language coding and uses examples of his work and
working experience to illuminate these differences
and to propose a role for computers as
philosophical prostheses.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/3-rokeby.htm
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The "Embedded
World" of Artificial Intelligence
[English]
How can we
conceive of engaging in Artificial Intelligence
(AI) practices while reflecting on the social
effects of AI technology? Traditionally, AI saw
itself as a 'closed world' outside of culture; now,
Phoebe Sengers argues, we may instead be able to
speak of and act on an 'embedded world' of
AI-in-culture.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/3-sengers.htm
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Concrete Poetry
in Analog and Digital Media
[English]
Concrete poetry
is visual not because it would apply images but
because it adds the optical gesture of the
word/letter to its semantic meaning. The philosophy
behind this shift towards typography is to free the
word from its representational, designational
function towards the "pure visual", the image for
images sake. On the other hand, the deconstructive
play with the symbolic orders of language is
considered to question social patterns and to even
have a revolutionary potential. Roberto Simanowski
wonders wether digital concrete poetry
rather takes up the latter or the earlier legacy
and discusses predecessors, mannerism, aesthetics
of the spectacle, and the "l'art pour l'art" of
coding.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/parisconnection/concretepoetry.htm
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The Body in
Cyberspace: Invented, Morphed, Generated, Dismissed
[English]
Many of
Frédéric Durieu's works confront the
grotesque body. In Autoportrait it is his
own face that the user can reshape, in
Puppettool the user manipulates the body of
an animal. What is behind this play with the
digital body? What about the grotesque body of
humans: in cyberspace and real life? And how do the
body's disappearance, reinvention, and reshaping
online affect our self-understanding and our own
feelings towards the body? Roberto Simanowski
reflects the discussion of the virtual, cyborgian
body, drawing from examples of body art online.
http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2003/parisconnection/durie-review.htm
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