Naive Bayes raconte

April 20th, 2019 § 0 comments § permalink

La Gaité Lyrique accueille cette lecture-performance le 20 avril à 15h.

An Mertens expérimente des formes qui dévoilent la personnalité des algorithmes. Pour cette nouvelle création, elle se glisse dans la peau du “classifieur naïf bayésien”, un algorithme très utilisé pour trier les spams de nos boîtes aux lettres, pour analyser les sentiments sur les médias sociaux, mais aussi pour définir si un texte est écrit par une femme ou un homme.

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Data Workers

March 21st, 2019 § 0 comments § permalink

https://www.algolit.net/index.php/Data_Workers

Data Workers is an exhibition at the Mundaneum from 28th March till 28th April 2019. It shows algoliterary works, stories told from an ’algorithmic storyteller point of view’. The exhibition is a creation by members of Algolit, a group from Brussels involved in artistic research on algorithms and literature. Every month they gather to experiment with F/LOSS code and texts. Some works are by students of Arts² and external participants to the workshop on machine learning and text organised by Algolit in October 2018 in Mundaneum.

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Algolit

July 10th, 2018 § 0 comments § permalink

A lot of the ideas on algoliterary creation present here come from the rich exchanges during the monthly meetings of Algolit in Brussels. These meetings are open to anyone.

Algolit is a project of Constant, a workgroup around i-literature, free code and texts. The group meets regularly following the principles of the Oulipo-meetings: they share work and thoughts and create together, with or without the company of an invitee. Algolit is open to anyone interested in exchanging practises around digital ways of reading and writing. » Read the rest of this entry «

Algologs

April 17th, 2018 § 0 comments § permalink

Dit is een informeel schrijven over Algologs, een publiek programma dat plaatsvond in Varia in Rotterdam op 16 en 17 maart 2018. Het werd georganiseerd door kunstenaars en ontwerpers Manetta Berends en Cristina Cochior.
Naar mijn aanvoelen was het een heerlijk hedendaags conceptueel literair programma. Met dit schrijven geef ik dan ook uiting aan mijn wens dat het niet een one-off event was, maar hopelijk een lange reeks mag worden. Dit artikel beschrijft het avondprogramma. Het is een pleidooi om dit soort avonden literair te noemen. » Read the rest of this entry «

The story of two sacred trees – a modern fairy tale

March 28th, 2017 § 0 comments § permalink

This story has been written using a Python script and scraped data from the website of Jubelparkmuseum. The story, the code and all the sources are published under a Free Art License: http://artlibre.org.
The main scripts were developed in the framework of DiVersions, a residency of Constant in Musée du Cinquantenaire in December 2016. With a warm thank you to Constant & the Jubelparkmuseum for the tools and the data!

This is what I know about myself.
The description given to me is that of a sacred tree. I am included in the Near East Collection. In case you decide to dress me one day: my height is 75 cm, my width is 87 cm. I have been tagged a relief. I have been categorized with the number o.00271. My body is made of stone. My great grand parents must have lived before -883 / -859. I should be able to find some relatives in Near and Middle East (Asia) as my place of production, and in Nimrud (Asia > Mesopotamia > Assyria) as my place of discovery: . My cultural background is Assyrian. » Read the rest of this entry «

Woorden tellen

December 8th, 2015 § 0 comments § permalink

Het is erg verleidelijk om woorden te gaan tellen in je eigen werk. De roman Tot Later telt 14311 verschillende woorden, of 118562 woorden in totaal, verdeeld over 7836 zinnen. Serendipiteit is nooit ver weg bij het schrijven, dus zie hier, de middelste zin van het boek luidt: “Poesjelief!” » Read the rest of this entry «

Counting words

December 8th, 2015 § 0 comments § permalink

While exploring NLTK or Natural Language Toolkit, I came across an interesting way of ‘reading’ The Book of Genesis.
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Schrijvers op het net

December 3rd, 2015 § 0 comments § permalink

Een overzicht van links naar interessante ‘algoliteraire creaties’ die gebruik maken van het internet.

Naar aanleiding van het programma in Passaporta: http://passaporta.be/agenda/schrijvers-op-het-net-ecrire-a-lere-dinternet

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Revisiting Little Brother in sms messages

May 2nd, 2014 § 0 comments § permalink

LTTL BRTHR
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[[THS CHPTR S DDCTD T BKKPHNX BKS N TRNT, CND
[[BKKPHNX BKS: HTTP://WWW

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KNW JST SCH CLLSS PRSN, ND HS NM S FRD BNSN, N F THR VC-PRNCPLS T CSR CHVZ

“MRCS YLLW,” H SD VR TH P N FRDY MRNNG

GRBBD MY BG ND FLDD MY LPTP THR-QRTRS SHT — DDN’T WNT T BLW MY DWNLDS — ND GT RDY FR TH NVTBL

“RPRT T TH DMNSTRTN FFC MMDTLY

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Après avoir cherché le texte

October 18th, 2013 § 0 comments § permalink

During Chercher Le Texte, a conference held in Paris in October, an initiative of ELO (Electronic Literature Organisation), some of the ideas that are (latently) present in the workgroup of Algolit, were described and confirmed. This post is a subjective reading of several conferences I attended, meant as an invitation for discussions and exchanges. » Read the rest of this entry «