I made some bizarre and wondrous things this summer.
Traveler’s Lamp, Part II
Last week, Joanna Wrzaszczyk and I completed the first version of our dynamic light sculpture, inspired by Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities and the Traveling Salesman Problem.
word.camera, Part II
For my final projects in Conversation and Computation with Lauren McCarthy and This Is The Remix with Roopa Vasudevan, I iterated on my word.camera project.
word.camera
Last week, I launched a web application and a concept for photographic text generation that I have been working on for a few months. The idea came to me while working on another project, a computer generated screenplay, and I will discuss the connection in this post.
GutenFlag
For my final project in Storage Wars: Narrating Digital Archives with Michael Connor, I generated new metadata for the Project Gutenberg ebook archive using AlchemyAPI natural language concept extraction. I then created a Twitter bot (@GutenFlag) that recommends books to Twitter users based on topics in their most recent tweets.
Traveler’s Lamp
For my primary project in Sculpting Data into Everyday Objects with Esther Cheung and Scott Leinweber, Joanna Wrzaszczyk and I will be creating a lamp to visualize the traveling salesman problem between a set of cities that Italo Calvino described in Invisible Cities.
Dr. Gonzo
For my first project in Conversation and Computation with Lauren McCarthy, I created a therapist bot with the voice of Hunter S. Thompson.
The Mechanical Turk’s Ghost, Part V
For my final project in Automata with Nick Yulman, I completed work on my musical chess experience, entitled the Mechanical Turk's Ghost.
Fiction Generator, Part IV
For my final project in Networked Media with Daniel Shiffman, I put the Fiction Generator online at fictiongenerator.com. I also exhibited this project at the ITP Winter Show.
Fiction Generator, Part III
For my final project in Introduction to Computational Media with Daniel Shiffman, I presented my fiction generator (working title: "FicGen"). Since my previous post about this project, I have added a graphical user interface and significantly refactored my code.
ITP Code Poetry Slam
Several months ago, I asked the question: Who Is Code Shakespeare. On November 14, 2014, I believe the first ITP Code Poetry Slam may have brought us closer to an answer.
