Algolit

Algolit is a project of Constant, a workgroup around i-literature, free code and texts. The group was initiated in 2012 by Catherine Lenoble and An Mertens.
Since then, the algoliterarian space has been created and recreated together with: Nicolas Malevé, Olivier Heinry, Stéphanie Villayphiou, Brendan Howell, Gijs De Heij, Christina Cochior, Hans Lammerant, Manetta Berends, Mia Melvaer, Olivier Perriquet.

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.
Recent topics and announcements: https://algolit.net
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Related events

Topic Modeling with e-traces

2020
Algolit will meet around e-traces, a collection of articles on the surveillance society and the trading of data, gathered over the last 10 years by artist Michel Cleempoel. The proposal is to take (…)

Viral : Imagina

Algolit will present an online lecture and workshop on VIRAL:IMAGINA, a Mexican platform for i-literature. The topic of the workshop will be an algoliterary exercise based on the Levenhstein (…)

Levenhstein Distance

2020
Algolit will meet on Wednesday 25-11 to talk about future projects and ideas, and to prepare a presentation and workshop about ’the Levenhstein Distance’ for VIRAL:IMAGINA, a Mexican platform on (…)

Littérature et Numérique

2020
Algolit is taking part in the exhibition ’Littérature et Numérique’ in Maison du Livre in Brussels with 3 different installations: L’algolitérateur, La Voix au chapitre and Greffer des arbres. (…)

Word2vec in Morlanwelz

2020
This Algolit session will be a special edition. We will leave with the train at 8:30 from Bruxelles-Midi to the beautiful Musée Royal de Mariemont near La Louvière. In the morning we will be (…)

Algoliterary plans

2019
In the morning we brainstorm on what & when for 2019/2020. In the afternoon we will move to De Pianofabriek. Algolit is a workgroup around FLOSS literature and code, they organise regular (…)

Release & Publish often

2019
The Algolit exhibition Data Workers in Mundaneum in Mons has come to an end. Everything was up and running. And it was great. In order to be able to have afterlives, forks and other remixing (…)

The Computational Scrawl

2019
The members of Algolit are very happy to welcome Allison Parrish for a workshop in the framework of the exhibition Data Workers in the evening before she will give a talk in Passa Porta. This (…)

About automatic writing and autocomplete: the poetics of technology

2019
Writing and reading are no longer the exclusive right of the paper. For most authors, their practice is intimately intertwined with software and a networked infrastructure. What does it mean to (…)