Calendars:Networked Media Calendar/Networked Media Calendar/24-01-2018 -Event 1

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XPUB1 R&W Steve


11:00 = START PROMPT

Pad of today

Outcome.

The provisional reader = synopses, discussion and texts: we will produce a publication comprising the texts you have read and the synopses you have written with a record of our discussions during today's seminar.

a) gather together material (synopses, texts and notes on discussion)

b) record (as in write) discussion = rotating stenographers (which sounds like a line from exquisite corpse)

c) edit all together in consequent, readable form

d) deadline 17:30 Wed 24 Jan 2018. We do it all in a day. Result: File:XPUB reader concept.pdf


Content: Combinational literature; writing machines, synopses of texts read; texts from Delphine's class introduced into the discourse

UPLOAD SYNOPSIS HERE

Synopsis 24-1-2018

Timetable:

AM:

11:00-11:30 intro and plan

11:30- 13:30 present synopsis and discuss them – make notes on discussion.

PM:

14:30- 17:30

Gather and edit material and make a provisional reader as pdf (or suggest other form)

Tasks: editors and designers

11:30


INTRO:

Steve introduces the session:

1) Trump and combinational literature (2:30).

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/nov/13/john-oliver-trump-an-iphone-would-be-a-more-coherent-president

A bit of Fry and Laurie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij1pZvv9m0g

Oliver Laric, Versions (2010)

https://vimeo.com/17805188#language

2) Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

This sentence appears in Noam Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures (1957).

The sentence is interesting in several respects

It is structurally coherent and yet it makes no sense to an English speaker.

Each word in the sentence is a place holder for a particular type of word

colourless (Adjective) green (adjective) ideas (noun) sleep (verb) furiously (adverb)

The same set of rules could return another result: “numberless pink digits jump sadly”

If I said “furiously sleep ideas green colorless ” it just sounds like a random collection of words.

To achieve syntactic order (if not semantic sense) one type of word must follow another.

This means that each word can be understood as a unit of probability in relation to another; the construction “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” is more statistically probable than “furiously sleep ideas green colorless ”. Chomsky did not think this, but recent work seems to indicate that the first is more probable:

“Fernando Pereira [,,,] has fitted a simple statistical Markov model to a body of newspaper text, and shown that under this model, Furiously sleep ideas green colorless is about 200,000 times less probable than Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” (from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorless_green_ideas_sleep_furiously)

You can follow the issue from the point of view of computational linguistics here: http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/358/1769/1239

But, setting these differences aside, Chomsky argued for the existence of "universal grammar" or "mental grammar" which held that there are a set of structural rules innate to human beings which structure language over and above any outside stimulus or environmental influences.

3)

In the last session you played exquisite corps and you generated the following poem:


The mechanical treasure slowly stalking peculiar tampons

Huge strip dancer suddenly singing creepily

Shy doctor quickly salutes

Pervasive luckily exploding


Outrageous cheese deadly falls

Nice flowerbuds contineously scream

Terrifying Fox Terrier dogs quickly envelop

Colourful Egg yolks miraclelously bite

New sparks mainly attract


Exquisite corps was named after the first sentence generated in the game “Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau” = “the exquisite corpse will drink the new wine” . This was in 1925, if the game had been invented in January 2018 it could have been called “peculiar tampons” or "outrageous cheese".

4) We discuss what you have been doing for the last few weeks:

5) read synopsis 1 and discussion

6) read synopsis 2 and discussion

7) read synopsis 3 and discussion

...&c

13:30 LUNCH

14:30- 17:30 Gather and edit material and make a provisional reader as pdf (or suggest other form)

17:30 Publish provisional reader, recap and plan next stage


Next 7 February

Reader


1)

The key elements of this trimester’s methods class are synopsis as a form of annotation

Consider how a workflow of reading and synopsis writing can be established

2)

Elements.

Core text = provides the main content of the reader

Synopsis = (each 500- 1500 words) provides annotation of core texts and other synopses = meta data is used to establish commonalities and links between different texts

Abstract = serves as intro to synopsis and core text = carries key words and key ideas

Notation = (of discussions recorded on pads) = discusses the relations between texts and provides a reflexive commentary on the process of making the reader.

These elements can then be purposed as parts of the reader AND as content to be run on the software the students create for the scanner.


3)

For next time= write more synopses (500 words this time) + an abstract (50 words) using other texts from your library - choose texts recommended by Delphine, Christina and Manetta = there is no limit to the umber of synopses you my choose to produce

Upload here


synopsis7Feb


Notes: Import texts fron Cristina and Manetta and from methods library -- check out Hayles' Writing Machines and her take of 'materiality'.