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I distorted a picture of a rapper named Logic's album cover of his face. I think it is cool how I broke his face down from the original image but you still could get the whole idea and see his face and forehead. Ultimately getting the feeling of separating his voice or words from his thoughts and mind.   

During Friday's class our group created an original work of uncreative writing via popular YouTube videos. We were instructed to pick out lines or words that stood out to us as important. From this our group created this piece of Uncreative Writing . One thing our writing shows is a strong sense of trends on the internet. Trends are continuously changing, we see current trends through the topics of the video clips we viewed.  The subjects who are at the focus of these clips include Bob Marley, Gordon Ramsay, Billy Eichner, Nicki Minaj, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling.  Each of these popular icons represent a certain aspect of culture and each are authors of many different products including their interview responses.  If we transcsribe the dialogue into a poem, the result is a product which should be credited to each original source as well as we the interpreters. The material that we read and created were composed of multiple persons thoughts and ideas. As Kenneth ...

Bots and self-generating texts use computer programming to autonomously generate text for human readers.  Bots are computer software which are programmed to respond to, or produce content for a human reader.  Bots can use the internet and social media to share content which is scheduled, responsive, or in real-time.  Bots can be programmed to use language and language patterns including poetry forms. An example of one of the first bots to create electronic literature is the Manchester University Computer  (MUC).  Programmed by Christopher Strachey in 1953, the MUC was able to form billions of different love letters using around seventy words.  It would sign the love letters, "M.U.C." being the computers initials. A present day example is Pentametron , a Twitter bot which filters thousands of tweets per second in search of couplets that fit iambic pentameter. When a perfect tweet is found, the bot will retweet the tweet for its followers to see. One way to...

Today in class, we learned how to break files.  We started by finding an image and downloading it to our desktop.   I chose this nice image of a cat running in a meadow. The next step is to change the file from ".jpg" to ".txt" by renaming it.  Then, we can open the file in a text editor and move the text around.  After you close the editor, you change the name back to ".jpg" and you are able to view how the image changed.  Here is my result: This is pretty cool.  Now, I see how you can make "make stuff by breaking stuff." By: Mary-Lynn

Below are two images I have broken for class. The images I selected were due to my interest in skiing, and the current winter Olympic Games.  - Robert Hager 

One form of electronic literature is digital poetry or "e-poetry."  E-poetry is only achievable through digital technologies, but these technologies are rapidly advancing.  Technologies used to create e-poetry include word processors, algorithms, hypertext, kinetics and multimedia.  These poems are born digital, meaning they were digital at the time they were created.  In some cases, the e-poetry uses aspects of poetry which is not initially digital.  Authors and programmers can include their work or their writing style as what makes up the digital poem's content.  Many examples of e-poetry can be found at the website " I  Love E-Poetry ."   A interesting poem we reviewed in class is "The Inexhaustible Gatsby." Molly Verostick created " The Inexhaustible Gatsby " which is based on work from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."  Verostick incorporates the text from "The Great Gatsby" into a continuous text genera...

Electronic Literature is a novel, short story, poem or random words or phrases digitalized to interact with the reader using an electronic device as the medium. Readers will interact with whatever the author is trying to portray to the audience. There are often hyperlink interactions, mouse clicks, audio, and keyboard interactions alongside visual effects that give the message to the audience. TailSpin  by Christine Wilks is a very great showcase of how electronic literature is used to give better insight to the general idea of the story. Taking place right after World War 2, this story is of a former aircraft fitters struggles with tinnitus and how civilian life is treating him miserably after the war. He has a form of PTSD and the author portrays this with a lot of  informational spirals telling us this mans life is going into a tailspin. He cannot live everyday life comfortably because of his inability to hear therefore giving him the inability to understand certain t...