Mail art pieces
More mail art pieces
Transatlantic mail art network day with @rkokayokay.bsky.social’s students’ work 🤩
Students were ELATED!
This week, The Flagrant Algorithms return to the 19th Century double standard as stated by Parkman: “A man can retrieve lost honor, and a woman can not.” And, Jane Austen observes the impact on 19th C women : “...She is lost forever.” Visit www.narrabase.net/algorithms/i... to find out more
The Flagrant Algorithms Visit Women in the 19th Century is now at www.narrabase.net/algorithms/i... The role of algorithms in genAI is explored in this work of information art. If commercial labs directed AI training on 19th C women's issues, the results might be very different. More data soon!
The working url for notes on the process is www.narrabase.net/algorithms/f...
Judy Malloy
Although data selection, data entry, and page design are in progress, a rough working model is now available at www.narrabase.net/algorithms/i...
and notes on the process are available at www.narrabase.net/.../flagrant...
Coding is working; The Flagrant Algorithms will soon run online! When you generate data, the system randomly applies algorithms, demonstrating how unseen algorithms impact AI ap output. In this information artwork, data input process also indicates why AI aps shouldn't replace the work of scholars.
Letterpress printed pages with the Penguin edition of Benjamin’s book.
The forme of handset type.
It finally happened. One of our fabulous @umdbooklab.bsky.social interns, @isabelleberube.bsky.social, printed (with movable type!) the entire first page of Benjamin’s WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION. That’s all handset type. They have ambitions to do more. 🤯
16th century Venetian lawyer/bibliophile Odorico Pillone shelved his books spine-inward and commissioned Cesare Vecellio (Titian’s nephew) to paint their fore-edges with colourful images suggesting their subject matter. Here’s how they looked on the shelf news.yale.edu/2019/03/14/p...
And, in the tradition of Bad Information, see www.narrabase.net/algorithms/f...
Sooner or later texts from Darwin’s "The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex" were likely to appear in The Flagrant Algorithms www.narrabase.net/algorithms/f...
In the attached random output example, the first variable is from Emily Dickinson and the second variable is from Darwin
This week, The Flagrant Algorithms control output stanzas from Keats' Ode to Psyche and anti-suffrage texts
www.narrabase.net/algorithms/f...
New In the flagrant Algorithms:
www.narrabase.net/algorithms/f...?
Jane Austen goes dancing in letters to her sister. Generative Output using an algorithm that favors voices of women changes with each play; output using an algorithm that favors voices of 19th century men has not radically changed
Here is the example using text from The Castle of Crossed Destinies that I use in my class
Alice was very wonderful! This is sad news.
I still remember how she spent the time to talk with students online at the Rutgers Camden Digital Studies Social Media Narratives class conference. A transcript is linked here .
www.narrabase.net/alice.html
Welcome to data entry notes for The Flagrant Algorithms Visit the Lives of 19th Century Women
www.narrabase.net/algorithms/f...
The adventures of the Flagrant Algorithms continue. Today 4 more variables were added from Fuller. Since AI apps might not distinguish between reliable & pop sources, 2 variables were taken from a “quotes from Margaret Fuller” website. To find out more, visit www.narrabase.net/algorithms/f...
Great to hear this! I waited too late to get a copy for my Social Media Narratives class, so this is good news.
🧵 Here's a behind-the-scenes look at the work that goes into lovingly repairing historic books from The Portico's 19th-century collection...
Book held open by hand, with two images of Animal Crossing, one on each page. There is text below the images, which begins: In time we got more rambunctious. We would run around playing tag and follow-the-leader, narrowly skirting the flower beds. He'd run laps around Resident Services, then suddenly head off toward another area of the island. I'd have a hint that he was about to climb a cliff or jump a stream, because I'd see a ladder or vaulting pole appear in his character's grip. He'd zig and I'd take a risk on zagging, opening or closing the distance between us. The game kept our running speed the same. I might tire out mentally, but I sure lasted longer than I would have physically.
It's the #BookBirthday of Animal Crossing: New Horizons — Can a Game Take Care of Us?
If you were one of the players swept up in the embrace of #ACNH, or one of the people puzzled by the whole phenomenon, I hope this book reveals something new.
Thanks to everyone at @uchicagopress.bsky.social
In its announcement of the acquisition, Qualcomm said that Arduino would "[retain] its brand and mission," including its "open source ethos" and "support for multiple silicon vendors."
A flier reading: UNIVERSITY of HOUSTON ARTE PÚBLICO 2025 Fall Speaker series on Digital Humanities The US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) Center serves as a venue for scholarship focused on the US Latino written legacy. USLDH provides a physical space for the development, support and training in digital humanities projects using Latino and Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage collections; promotes and fosters interdisciplinary scholarly work; and administers a communal virtual space to share knowledge and projects related to US Latino digital humanities. To RSVP, please visit: bit.ly /bindingmedia "Binding Media: Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas" PUBLIC LECTURE Open to all Friday, Oct. 3 - 11:00am-12:0pm CT Virtual RSVP required Far from signaling the "death of the book," digital technologies have enabled new literary forms that merge print and digital media. Binding Media explores these hybrid works across the Americas, showing how they challenge conventional literary, regional and linguistic boundaries. While often marginalized due to technological and commercial constraints, these projects leave a rich legacy that illuminates cultural hybridization in the digital age. Élika Ortega-Guzmán, PhD Élika Ortega-Guzmán is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research focuses on the intersection of digital and print publishing, digital literature, cultural hybridity, digital humanities and multilingualism in academia. Ortega-Guzmán's work on these topics has appeared in venues such as ASAP Journal, PMLA, Hispanic Review, Debates in the Digital Humanities, EBR and others. She has also created literary bots, including Twitter bots dedicated to the work of Mexican writer and artist Ulises Carrión, which were featured in Antología LitELat Vol. 1 and have more recently been ported to Bluesky as @BotCarrión. USLD!: US LATINO DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Book talk: join us to talk about Binding Media on Friday October 3 with the amazingest team of @apprecovery.bsky.social
RSVP for link!
Wow! Finally after 40 years, I have discovered how to use the Internet -- www.narrabase.net/workshop/cov...
In 1986, when a Bad Information database was created on The WELL people.well.com/user/jmalloy...
my pop conceptual work of net art demonstrated that all information on computers was not accurate. Now, my just begun sequel will demonstrate how algorithms can distort the contents of datasets.
Making my way through Inventing ELIZA, our forthcoming book on the first chatbot from MIT Press. with Sarah Ciston, David Berry, Anthony Hay, Peter McMillan, Arthur Schwarz, Jeff Shrager, Peggy Weil, and me, with a Foreward by Janet Murray.
#critcode
Musical theatre fans / theatre kids / game designers / players: this Thursday we have a talk + workshop for you. Come learn how Stephen Sondheim was also a game designer and learn more about his games at Barry Joseph's book presentation. RSVP below!
Happy 40th birthday Super Mario Bros
Daniel Temkin’s book Forty-Four Esolangs, coming from the MIT Press on Sep 23 in the Hardcopy series, is reviewed & @dtemkin.bsky.social himself is interviewed in IEEE Spectrum
spectrum.ieee.org/esoteric-pro...
Thrilled that Hunting and Gathering in Cyberspace -- www.narrabase.net/roar2/about_... -- received an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Robert Coover Award for a work of Electronic Literature.
Recreating working online in the mountains in early 1990's, Hunting & Gathering in Cyberspace people.well.com/user/jmalloy... appears at the Electronic Literature Conf, York Univ, Toronto &the U of Waterloo, July 10-13. Beer cools in mountain streams & the sound of the modem echoes in the woodlands
I had an Apple III - a discard from a Cal Plant Pathology Prof, but I mainly used it for Apple II emulation -- which it did very well -- so I can't exactly say that I did some of my early writing on an Apple III...
