critical retrocomputing + reposting Rachel's talk at MagFest

I had to give a 10 minute talk yesterday in front of the faculty and cohort of my department on my art practice (Do I have an art practice? I guess I do). What seemed like a simple task went south on me kind of quickly as I raced through topics trying to stay within the time limit. Probably no one really cared but me, but all last night I found myself thinking “Why did I say that? Why didn’t I say that?”

Susan Anway RIP

mr bear squash you all flat

I made this a while back but here’s a board game I made that would work on a Thicket-style hex-grid: Mr Bear Squash You All Flat

Soft Corruptor

A folded poem by Everest Pipkin-

Derrida's Mac

Creative Writing With Computation and Machine Learning with Allision Parrish

I’ve just returned from a week of study under Allison Parrish at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Colorado. It was a week of studying a number of methods of generating and manipulating text using computation and machine learning. I had already been using the markovify python library to build text generators for a lot of my work, but this week I was really able to suppliment what I had been doing with a number of complimentary methods.