User:Supisara/Special Issue 16
Special Issue #16: Vernacular Language Processing
Prototyping
Jupyter notebooks for carrier-bag-of-notebooks (to be linked)
| Date | Link |
|---|---|
| 21/09/21 | XP4, 5, 6 + A House of Dust |
| 27/09/21 | XP7 + NLTK1 |
| 04/10/21 | XP8 + NLTK2 |
| 08/11/21 | XP15 |
Group exercises
| Date | Pad | Description | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22/09/21 | RW&RM | Intro, first reading and writing workshop | Emoji markup with Jian, Kamo, Erica. Annotating a reader with emojis to indicate the beginning and endings of each person's side notes, questions, distractions, references, etc. Annotations became interruptions that were woven into the original reader and transformed it into reader 2.0. |
| 28/09/21 | SI16 | On orientation & navigation | Text traverse + keyword geotag with Alex, Jian: selecting, combining, and rearranging texts from multiple readers to create a new one to perform with. Keyword repetition is used as a text navigation tool/method, so performance can vary (for example, start/stop reading at specific word). |
| 05/10/21 | SI16 | Text processing | 1.) Soliloquy slow processing with Chae, Miriam, Carmen (lines 111-156): selecting a linguistic pattern to apply to a literary device. Contribution: invisible spellcheck annotation 2.) Magic words glossary with everyone: text processing with special customized commands/incantations for a collaborative spell book |
| 06/10/21 | RW&RM | Reader prototypes | From pad to bubbles with Kamo, Alex: converting chaos to calm in the form and flow of chat bubbles |
| 12/10/21 | SI16 | Transcription processes | Multilingual multitasking with Mitsa: transcribing while recording, listening, thinking, editing, then generating translations in two more languages |
| 01/11/21 | Prototyping | Custom corpora | Concrete Label (pad, tool (WIP)) with Kamo: manually filtering/annotating concrete poetry. |
Research
Related resources from workshops, station skills, discussions:
| Date | Topic | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/10/21 | Cybernetic Dreams: Arduino + sensors: an artificial nervous system with Dennis de Bel | Workshop | |
| 07/10/21 | Cybernetic Dreams: Speech-to-derive: the myth of natural language with Federico Poni and Francesco Luzzana | Workshop | |
| 09/10/21 | Cybernetic Dreams: Soul of the Beast: The Magic of Chance/Chaos with Telemagic | Workshop | |
| 17/10/21 | Machine Listening: Unnatural Language Processing by Liquid Architecture x Unsound | Workshop | |
| 23/10/21 | Cassette Hacking with Dogbotic Labs | Workshop | |
| 04/11/21-02/12/11 | Smart Textiles with Bram van Waardenberg | Station Skill | |
| 06/11/21 | Zine Camp: Glyph Assembling Workshop by Júlia C Aguair | Workshop | |
| 06/11/21 | Zine Camp: E-Zines off the Grid by Florian Cramer | Workshop |
Observations
and/or reflections, side thoughts, curiosities, rabbit holes
- processing is time and environment-based
- rejection as a vernacular processing method: masks, magnetic field, compressed directions/decisions, simultaneous selection + omission, frame rates of events/active-inactive states, physics (collision/energy)
Experiments
2.) Vernacular processing methods: archived here (for now)
Deliverables
Collective and individual contributions for Special Issue 16: Learning How To Walk While Catwalking
| Phase | Description | Output (Collective) | Output (Individual) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.) Processing | 1.) The vernacular, rejections, the API, SI16 subgroup work distribution | 1.) Rejection as form of VLP: pad, wiki 2.) SI16 Group meetings pad |
1.) Visualizing rejection as a compressed decision-making process, a selection ↔︎ omission process via interaction with space, a force 2.) Understanding the API as "a personifcation of something that's intended to be functional, in that we assign the API a particular behavior so that it does the unexpected. For instance [re: "Learning How To Walk While Catwalking"], a cat-like API––unpredictable, playful, does the opposite of what you ask. The vernacular makes the intimidating a commonplace and [more] approachable." |
| 2.) Production | 1.) "Annotation Compass" with Alex, Emma, Jian, Kamo, Kimberley 2.) "Inverse Annotations" project showcase |
1.1.) "Selection Process" with Kamo, Jian, Kimberley: pad, wiki, page, tool 1.2.) "Annotation Compass" project 2.1.) "Inverse Annotations" pre-launch tryout at Varia––submitted results: 2.1.1.) Combined (click on "load"): 01 2.2.2.) Individual: 01 02 03 04 05, 06 07 08 09 |
1.) "Selection Process" experiments: 1.1.) Subjective map 1.2.) Subjective map with filters (mockups): 01 02 03 1.3.) Non-map 2.) "Inverse Annotations" 2.1.) Project showcase 2.2.) Image for launch at Varia |
| 2.) SI16 Visual Identity with Kimberley, Alex, Kamo, Gersande | 1.) Tryouts: are.na 2.) Package: guidelines, icons, pictograms, stickers |
1.) Initial mockups: 1.1.) R1 01 02 03 04 1.2.) R2 01 02 03 04 05 1.3.) R3 01 02 03 04 05 06 1.4.) R4 01 02 03 1.5.) R5 (animation test) 01 2.) Communication materials for event launch: | |
| 3.) SI16 Front End with Kamo, Emma, Chae | 1.) Mockups: Figma 2.) Website: SI16 |
1.) Initial mockups: 1.1.) Homepage: 01, 02, 03 1.2.) "Annotation Compass" page: tool, upload page, icons 1.3.) Projects page 1.4.) Header variations 1.5.) Favicon |
Next steps
1.) Reflection see wiki
2.) Further research/developed interests
| No | Topic | Description | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | INDD processing time | "Selection Process" animation, navigation | |
| 2 | HTML markup | Variations of "Inverse Annotations" | |
| 3 | Sticker script | Leftover stickers from cursor hover from SI16 website |
