Proposal Title
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Submission Type
Virtual Engagement Session
Start Date
16-7-2020 1:00 PM
End Date
16-7-2020 2:00 PM
Abstract
The Digital Language Workbench is an online platform for generating algorithmic poetry, computational literary experiments and conducting text analysis. It offers a unique visual programming interface to help writers combine different linguistic processors together with additional functions using an easy drag and drop editing tool. In general, the Workbench allows you to create, play with, and analyze language using algorithms and linguistic processors that you personally design and implement.
For our virtual workshop, we will engage in a number of creative online writing exercises to explore collaborative approaches to computation and poetics. Participants will team up in an ongoing jam session to experiment and play havoc with readymade generative language processors and build their own with the program's drag and drop interface. The session seeks to explore techniques and strategies for designing new algorithmic tools in poetry and will culminate in a final open reading (along with an online publication) of new work.
The Digital Language Workbench
The Digital Language Workbench is an online platform for generating algorithmic poetry, computational literary experiments and conducting text analysis. It offers a unique visual programming interface to help writers combine different linguistic processors together with additional functions using an easy drag and drop editing tool. In general, the Workbench allows you to create, play with, and analyze language using algorithms and linguistic processors that you personally design and implement.
For our virtual workshop, we will engage in a number of creative online writing exercises to explore collaborative approaches to computation and poetics. Participants will team up in an ongoing jam session to experiment and play havoc with readymade generative language processors and build their own with the program's drag and drop interface. The session seeks to explore techniques and strategies for designing new algorithmic tools in poetry and will culminate in a final open reading (along with an online publication) of new work.
Bio
Andrew Klobucar, Associate Professor of English at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey is a literary theorist and teacher, specializing in internet research, electronic literature, and semantic technologies. His research on experimental literary forms and screen-based writing critically analyzes the transformative effect digital technology continues to have on the literary arts. He has worked on developing software for writing instruction and written on the use of programmable media in classroom instruction. Two books focusing on algorithmic culture and literature entitled The Community and the Algorithm: A Digital Interactive Poetics from Vernon Press and The Algorithmic Impulse: Programmable Writing and the Aesthetics of Information are forthcoming.
www.andrewklobucar.com