Thursday, October 22, 2009

New Media Reader: Ch. 10-12

Chronology:
  • 1964: Roy Ascott publishes "The Construction of Change"
  • 1965: Theodor Nelson publishes "A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate"
  • 1973: Raymond Queneau publishes "Yours for the Telling", Claude Berge publishes "For a Potential Analysis of Combinatory Literature", and Jean Lescure publishes "A Brief History of Oulipo"
  • 1981: Italo Calvino publishes "Prose and Anticombinatorics" and Paul Fournel publishes "Computer and Writer: The Centre Pompidou Experiment"
  • 1983: Raymond Queneau publishes "100,000,000,000,000"
Summary:
10. The Construction of Change

Conneting cybernetics and art. This led to fields such as digital design and digital media art.

11. A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate

The term hypertext is created. The idea of hypertext is supposed to imply a reconfigurable structure of information with no limit.

12. Six Selections by the Oulipo

A compilation of sonnets that were generated using complex algorithmic techniques. The point of these sonnets are to blur the lines between author, reader and text.

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