ZS @LogicalDash@mastodon.babycastles.com
And the final open projector, Sophie Searcy
Making Faces
A generative adversarial network, with convolutional something, that generates images of faces
Turns a vector like "has bangs, is old, has makeup" and turns it into a picture
It's like a classifier run in reverse. Learns the "distribution" of the training data, the world of faces
Take a vector of man w. Glasses, subtract man w/o glasses, add woman w/o glasses, you get woman w/ glasses
Open projector #2
Matthew Balousek
Response to Matt O'leary's Final Fantasy 7 GameFAQs poems. This one mixes in some queer slashfic. The "Daniel" voice synth reads this out
And this other one is from the ASCII art that shows up in every GameFAQ. "Alex" voice synth reads this one by saying the name of each individual character with varying intonation. "Kate" does the same but ignores the underscores
The soundtrack to #GamesAboutProtest is literally angry dog noises
Can you do that on text? You can, using traditional poetry meters like sonnets. They implemented this https://github.com/mewo2/oisin
Actually sonnets don't work all that great. Until you feed them a GameFAQs walkthrough as a corpus
The bot, then, is a constraint solving problem within whatever frame you've set up
You have to construct the right frame for your particular problem-space
For more info, see her talk tomorrow at the CUNY NLP reading group. She's trying to automate the process of frame generation from a corpus!
What if you made a bot like that with semantics as well as phonetics? Then you get the concept of lexical frames
It's like object oriented programming for words
Fernando Ramallo presents
An economics poem where you perform labor as both the worker and the CEO
The CEO's labor is tweeting. It affects the stock price a lot
Here's how Wall-Wall turned out at #PixelsXPaper
Adam La Thue (?) (left)
When first worked on Bitsy, was just doing it as a side project, to work past creative blocks
Was trying to make a toolkit for Kentucky Route Zero like games, made of vectors. Never released
Lost the thread of the game they were making, and anyway the tools weren't getting good enough fast enough
Inspired by Superbrothers' essay "Less Talk More Rock" that discouraged overthinking, identified the core: walk around, talk, discover story
There are a couple of noninteractive displays using the #bitsy graphics #PixelsXPaper
I'm at the opening of #PixelsXPaper the exhibition on #flatgames
At this point she became aware of the use of Amazon ebooks as instruments for money laundering
She had a book that was just a word search in the bible, and somebody was reselling it for thousands
You only get 60% of your money, Amazon gets the rest. And it needs a stolen social security number. But it's the best you can do to cash out stolen Bitcoin
That's all! Check her new bot @puertopianisms@twitter.com
It's sort of pointless to describe but here's Sara livecoding a random dots effect into random groups of dots
Just after this, added an effect to make the circle shiver a bit when it appeared, which happened once every four seconds or so
Making it up as we go along
After the intermission we have Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo @supersgp@twitter.com
In a band that does algoraves where they live code the music.
Big tool: La Habra, which mulches together svg and css into things that should not be
Works in ClojureScript a lot
Here is video of the first minute or so of Anastasis' piece, performed by volunteers who didn't announce their names #WordHack
Claire DeNado
It's like a meditation session while we're looking at meditation products on Amazon
It's guided visualizations and it seems overdone to me, there's a golden staircase to a garden with really specific flowers. You have a feeling of complete tranquility
Eventually you come upon a twin "flame" that's you and you want to listen to them. The products on amazon specify that they are twin flame type meditation
You can leave objects with meaning in the museum (or money) and then a prophecy as you go
The play area is like a children's play area for adults. Has an activity similar to "what do you want to be when you grow up" only you're grown up so you're evaluating the promises you made yourself as a child
