User:Mxrwho/Assessssssment

General direction and starting point

Learned bash: I found bash and text manipulating capabilities (commands such as grep, awk, shuf, but also fortunes and aliases) very inspirational.

Interesting to the see the computational take on language and use it along with semantics, pragmatics, socio- and even ethno-linguistics and concepts of philosophy and literary theory such as intentionality and reader-response and interactionism in its sociological sense, psychoanalysis and language.

Main points of interest: Language as a collection of segments but also as the non-static, ever changing space of making meaning, the (futile) effort to make language static, to give meaning a permanence that is unnatural, to colonize and monopolize it, the dynamics and importance of language in relation to a person's connection to society and the self.

Future:

An installation that will allow the visitor to experience language units (eg. words, sentences, maybe even phonemes as organic elements) as objects, explore the impact these objects have on them, challenge and change them (so, exposing the importance of the narrative and our power over it, understand that every construct can be deconstructed and rebuilt).

Biggest challenge:

Narrowing it down.

Readings:

Languages and Automata (Alexandra Silva) Regular Languages and Finite Automata (Andrew Pitts)

Mainframe Experimentalism (Hannah Higgins) Computing as Writing (Andrew Pitts) Phenomenology of Spirit (GWF Hegel)

Implemented the html and css on my personal page and used imagemagick ( composite -blend 20 -gravity center Untitled2.1000x.png Untitled1.png Untitled3.png ) to enhance the visual aspect