User:Golubjevaite/hackpact

PROJECT PROPOSAL

what do you want to make?

WRITER OR(IS) A READER OR(IS) A WRITER

I want to investigate the topic of alternative reading, writing & publishing.
What I mean with alternative here in this case is mainly alternative to printed r,w&p as well as what is considered a linear storytelling.
My main goal with my project would be to develop a series of prototypes (tools) that would help me to research (through critical making) and experiment with a concept of a narrative.
I would describe myself as a maker first of all and I usually "think" and come to conclusions thought a making process. That is why I cannot give you a full and concrete description of what the end result exactly will be. What I have now is a goal (idea) and an interest (topic) and a starting point ( current process). I like to work this way because it helps me to discover more as I go along the way, which is also how I want users to experience my work.
The prototype I am currently working on is text to web content tool.
Basically a tool that will take text as an input and will output an ongoing story on a webpage, where a reader will be able to further configure/manipulate the content of the story.
So far I am deviding the curret idea into 3 main parts: input/ output / input2

          
                           (input)        |-------------------output-------------------|     (input2)                     
                            TEXT          |                TEXT2CONTENT                |   CONFIGURATION    
                                          |           (img, sound, txt, video)         |
               WRITER --->---->---->----> | DATABASE ---> ----> -----> ---> WEBPAGE    |<--<--<--->-->--> READER is a WRITER2
               Python                     |(DuckDuckGo)                   (Html/Css/   |                      Browser
              IRC chat                    | (WikI)                        Javascript)  |
                                          |--------------------------------------------|
                                                              |
                                                              |
                                                              |
                                                          (input 3?)
                                                        READER/WRITER
                                                            (???)

[input]
How could computation help to develop new ways of telling a narrative?
The idea is that any type of text can be the input. It can be something similar to a poem, a caption, a tweet, a code, a conversation, depends how a user or multiple users (writers) want to use it and what story they want to tell and/or what language they are comfortable using. The input text could be 1500 words and the output may be just 1 image. The other way around as well. The content on the webpage will update as long as there will be new text coming in.

[output]
I am interested in what it means to read in post-digital and what I mean by reading is percieving information. Since we already are practising new behaviours of reading when we scan the content browsing the internet, I am interested in these new habits and how our cognitive abilities together with memory are effected by it. I am curious about how it influences our sense of intuition and how could we read without it being spelled out to us? How far could we push the poetics (within computation) and in fact if it could communicate anything?

[input2]
I want to challenge the relationship between a writer and a reader. As you can see in the diagram sketch above what I want the user (a reader) on the browser side to have the power to affect the story that it is reading as well and therefore become what I would call a WRITER2 (too).

At the moment I am working on this for my own purposes, but I would be happy to share my (final) project results and perhaps collaborate further with people who are interested in simillar topics and questions.

HACKPACT

starting point

getUserMedia

> Webcam filters
> Take photo button + clear button
> Canvas
> rgbSplit
> Javascript
> navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia() / link

// Get media stream
navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({video: true, audio: false})

File:Webfilter1.jpeg File:Webfilter2.gif

IRC bot

> Using Michaels reverse bot as a base / link

import irc.bot

> Downloading an img from a url into a folder

import requests # to get image from the web
import shutil # to save it locally
import re

image blend with PIL

# alpha-blend the images with varying values of alpha
alphaBlended1 = Image.blend(image5, image6, alpha=.8)
alphaBlended2 = Image.blend(image5, image6, alpha=.2)