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Programmatic Day
In his book Uncreative Writing, Kenneth Goldsmith explores where the lines between authorship and appropriation lie in the age of digital media. Day is one of his examples of uncreative writing: It is a poem featuring all text published in the New York Times of September 1, 2000. From op-ed to advertisement, everything is set in Times New Roman 12pt.
'I began retyping the day's New York Times, word for word, letter for letter, from the upper left-hand corner to the lower right-hand corner, page by page.
Programmatic Day is a small python script to create your own version of Day, based on the homepage of nytimes.com. After running the script you get a PDF with all text of the digital front page of today. You can download and run the script yourself on https://github.com/Jocavdh/programmatic_day
Workshop Breaking News by ACED
http://aced.site/news/what-value-can-design-have-in-the-journalism-of-tomorrow
"During Breaking News, we search for this value: we invite designers, journalists, artists, illustrators, image makers, tech innovators, developers and researchers for a record attempt in storytelling. Together we celebrate the richness of our profession and will search for innovative forms of journalism. We combine artistic and journalistic forces to seek and shift the boundaries of storytelling."
Outcome
I worked together with Martina Huynh, recent graduate at Man & Communication at the Design Academy Eindhoven. We had 2 hours to create a prototype to fill one square meter. During the process, we could get support from tutors.
We picked the topic show news. Show news and 'real' news are merging, for example with former reality star Donald Trump as the president of the United States, or Rihanna campaigning at the Dutch government to financially support education for girls in various countries in Africa.
The actors are now moving between gossip and news, and so are the ways to tell a story. The whole notion of human-interest journalism is something that started in shownews, and found its way across other fields.
Now it's time to take another way of storytelling to the rest of the news: real-life series.
REAL NEWS - LIVE REALITY lets you follow your favourite news characters, in the form of a live reality soap. A script collects the headlines featuring your favourite reality news character, and presents it as a story, automatically paired with images.
During the workshop we collected the story of Trump. What is Kanye West planning with him, does Kim Kardashian support Ye, or is she in favour of Trump. And why is Lana Del Rey so angry?
A real-life soap, based on headings of the NYTimes, Dailymail, El Pais, de Volkskrant, NRC and the correspondent.
This way of storytelling can be applied to other topics. We imagine that you could follow a meeting of European leaders, by tuning in on the adventures of Angela Merkel, or how about the adventures of Elon Musk?