Coding is working; The Flagrant Algorithms will soon run online! When you generate data, the system randomly applies algorithms, demonstrating how unseen algorithms impact AI ap output. In this information artwork, data input process also indicates why AI aps shouldn't replace the work of scholars.

It finally happened. One of our fabulous @umdbooklab.bsky.social interns, @isabelleberube.bsky.social, printed (with movable type!) the entire first page of Benjamin’s WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION. That’s all handset type. They have ambitions to do more. 🤯

16th century Venetian lawyer/bibliophile Odorico Pillone shelved his books spine-inward and commissioned Cesare Vecellio (Titian’s nephew) to paint their fore-edges with colourful images suggesting their subject matter. Here’s how they looked on the shelf news.yale.edu/2019/03/14/p...

Sooner or later texts from Darwin’s "The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex" were likely to appear in The Flagrant Algorithms www.narrabase.net/algorithms/f... In the attached random output example, the first variable is from Emily Dickinson and the second variable is from Darwin

This week, The Flagrant Algorithms control output stanzas from Keats' Ode to Psyche and anti-suffrage texts www.narrabase.net/algorithms/f...

New In the flagrant Algorithms: www.narrabase.net/algorithms/f...? Jane Austen goes dancing in letters to her sister. Generative Output using an algorithm that favors voices of women changes with each play; output using an algorithm that favors voices of 19th century men has not radically changed

Welcome to data entry notes for The Flagrant Algorithms Visit the Lives of 19th Century Women www.narrabase.net/algorithms/f...

The adventures of the Flagrant Algorithms continue. Today 4 more variables were added from Fuller. Since AI apps might not distinguish between reliable & pop sources, 2 variables were taken from a “quotes from Margaret Fuller” website. To find out more, visit www.narrabase.net/algorithms/f...

🧵 Here's a behind-the-scenes look at the work that goes into lovingly repairing historic books from The Portico's 19th-century collection...

It's the #BookBirthday of Animal Crossing: New Horizons — Can a Game Take Care of Us? If you were one of the players swept up in the embrace of #ACNH, or one of the people puzzled by the whole phenomenon, I hope this book reveals something new. Thanks to everyone at @uchicagopress.bsky.social

In its announcement of the acquisition, Qualcomm said that Arduino would "[retain] its brand and mission," including its "open source ethos" and "support for multiple silicon vendors."

Book talk: join us to talk about Binding Media on Friday October 3 with the amazingest team of @apprecovery.bsky.social RSVP for link!

In 1986, when a Bad Information database was created on The WELL people.well.com/user/jmalloy... my pop conceptual work of net art demonstrated that all information on computers was not accurate. Now, my just begun sequel will demonstrate how algorithms can distort the contents of datasets.

Making my way through Inventing ELIZA, our forthcoming book on the first chatbot from MIT Press. with Sarah Ciston, David Berry, Anthony Hay, Peter McMillan, Arthur Schwarz, Jeff Shrager, Peggy Weil, and me, with a Foreward by Janet Murray. #critcode

Musical theatre fans / theatre kids / game designers / players: this Thursday we have a talk + workshop for you. Come learn how Stephen Sondheim was also a game designer and learn more about his games at Barry Joseph's book presentation. RSVP below!

Happy 40th birthday Super Mario Bros

Daniel Temkin’s book Forty-Four Esolangs, coming from the MIT Press on Sep 23 in the Hardcopy series, is reviewed & @dtemkin.bsky.social himself is interviewed in IEEE Spectrum spectrum.ieee.org/esoteric-pro...

Thrilled that Hunting and Gathering in Cyberspace -- www.narrabase.net/roar2/about_... -- received an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Robert Coover Award for a work of Electronic Literature.

Recreating working online in the mountains in early 1990's, Hunting & Gathering in Cyberspace people.well.com/user/jmalloy... appears at the Electronic Literature Conf, York Univ, Toronto &the U of Waterloo, July 10-13. Beer cools in mountain streams & the sound of the modem echoes in the woodlands

An extra special Pride Month to all of my Two-Spirit cousins out there. Y'all are a huge inspiration and a big part of the soul of the Coyote & Crow RPG. It wouldn't be what it is without your indomitable Indigenous hearts.

#LudoNarracon has begun!! 🎉 This event celebrates amazing narrative games and is hosted by @fellowtraveller.games! I’m so proud and excited that The Crimson Diamond is part of the Official Selection — and it’s 20% on Steam! 🤩 store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/... Long live narrative games!!! 🎉

Verse Verso: Visual Poetry and Artist Books, Warburg Institute, London, 30 May 2025, 1:00PM - 6:00PM warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/verse...

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Starting on Earth Day: Solarpunk Game Jam in support of environmental causes, with a $10K grand prize. May 10 deadline to submit your game. #gamejam #climatechange #environment itch.io/jam/day-zero...

Thrilled that Hunting and Gathering in Cyberspace www.narrabase.net/roar2/ about: -- www.narrabase.net/roar2/about_... has been accepted for exhibition at the Electronic Literature Organization's 25th Anniversary Conf : "Love Letters to the Past and Future" at York Univ in Toronto this July

"A disdain for misogyny past and present shines through in Shohini Ghose's rich history of women's underappreciated contributions to astronomy and physics." — @newscientist.com 🔭 Ghose's award-winning book "Her Space, Her Time" is now available in paperback: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204831...

Student take on #GPTs ability to tell stories. "The general tone of the plot is similar to many stories generated by ChatGPT, where there is a small challenge that ends up being resolved in a relatively empty and unmeaningful way. The plot of the story is vague and generic."

It's hard to know where social is heading. Fortunately, @chaykak.bsky.social is on the case — Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Listen to the sound of the modem and come across to the Internet in Hunting and Gathering in Cyberspace - now working at www.narrabase.net/roar2/ or visit the about file at www.narrabase.net/roar2/about_...

What do we have here? AADHum's first 2025 event! 🚀 Over the moon excited for this one. Come hang with us for a night about futures, speculative design, and the important work of independent Black digital and experimental makers. Swoon. Busboys & Poets Hyattsville — 5pm on 2/12 — Free!

World's first AI chatbot has finally been resurrected after decades ELIZA is famous as a rudimentary artificial intelligence and the first ever chatbot, but versions online today are actually knock-offs because the original computer code was lost – until now www.newscientist.com/article/2463...

When in the 1990’s I conceived The Roar of Destiny, I was Artist in Residence in an ASU Summer MFA Program at Deep Creek School in Telluride, where the town &the school were sites of gold & silver mining. Now, with generative algorithms, to the tune of the Hayes Modem I'm mining Roar of Destiny...

Today has been one of those delightful programming days in which much unproductive tedium has nevertheless led to a stack of useful insights + a justification of a given approach. Thinking of Pickering's "mangle of practice", where wrestling the concept into shape is just as important as materials.

Just spent half an hour mapping the maze in Zork 1. Yep really. I wanted to associate the source code names of the rooms (see ‪https://github.com/historicalsource/zork1/blob/7d54d16fca7a5dd7c6191c93651aad925f8c0922/1dungeon.zil#L1538 ) to their object numbers.

Chapter two of Workshop Play Action www.narrabase.net/workshop/beg... is proceeding slowly. Nevertheless, time spent developing background and introducing new characters has been productive

Ridiculously excited to bring back alive @botcarrion.bsky.social -- my bot dedicated to Mexican writer+artist Ulises Carrión. The new bot brings together the original bot focused on The New Art of Making Bots and a second one emulating Carrión's Poesías (ritmos, rimas, puntiaciones, sinalefas, etc.)

Great to see that Erin Dickey's Thesis "'Bad Information': Networks, Knowledges, and Feminist Art in the 1980s" University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2024 is now available on Proquest www.proquest.com/dissertation...

For Veterans Day, here is a photo of me and my Dad, who served in the invasion of Normandy and was injured in the Battle of the Bulge

CFP: ELO25 @ 25: Toronto (July 11-13; due Jan. 5, 2025) Locations: Toronto, Canada and Waterloo, Canada eliterature.org/2024/11/cfp-...

My book has a website and a cover! And lovely blurbs from @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social and Marcy Schwartz 🙏🙏! Out March 2025 with @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Chapter 2 of Workshop Play Action www.narrabase.net/workshop/beg... begins with WW2 Commando training on the grounds of Achnacarry Castle; an ice skater named Phoebe moves to Huygens to coach women skaters. Meanwhile, the Huygens D3 football team prepares for a bus ride to Humboldt County

I note with surprise that in E. Kearns, "Annotating and quantifying narrative time disruptions in modernist and hypertext fiction" Uncle Roger is the winner in "normalized frequency of analepsis tags" aclanthology.org/2020.nuse-1.... but the competition is impressive, so cheerful to find this :)

@jerthorp.bsky.social not sure if you saw the news about Lillian Schwartz www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/t...

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A wallpaper of all the plants, seeds and crops and flowers in Dwarf Fortress. 🌱All drawn by Carolyn Jong

We've just launched the beta of Game Devs of Color Jobs, our new year-round job board! 📝 People are ready to work. 🧤 Employers want more diverse hiring pools. 👥 Our community brings it together! 🤝🏾 Best of luck, and please share this with your network! 👉🏾 www.gamedevsofcolorexpo.com/jobs #gamedev

From a deserted studio/workshop in the Hotel California Trail; to Iron Mountain Camp in the Mojave Desert; to Huygens Tech vs the Sacramento Valley Harriers -- Chapter One of Workshop Play Action is completed . www.narrabase.net/workshop/cov...

In my notebook: A text & image intertwined interface, where the work can be paged through via one of 3 tracks, eventually leads into an immersive sit-down-with-a-book quality where a subtle rhythm underlies the whole -- I'm still working on this! www.narrabase.net/notebook24/m...

Last I heard - because in August the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals put a stay on the FCC net neutrality ruling, net neutrality won't take effect until the Court releases a further decision. Next week, my Social Media Narratives course will focus on Issues. Is there any later information? @eff.org