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Topic Modeling with e-traces

An — 2020-12-01T09:52:36Z

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 topic modelling as an algorithmic agent to 'read through' the data. We will meet online: https://meet.jit.si/Algolit

Algolit is an artistic workgroup around FLOSS literature and code, they organise regular meetings following the Oulipo principle. There is no need for programming knowledge, but if you have it, you're of course very welcome as well. The process will be documented during the day.

View online : https://etraces.constantvzw.org

Viral : Imagina

An — 2020-11-19T16:25:55Z

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 Distance, an algorithm that is used in spellcheckers.
The spoken language will be Spanish.

View online : https://imaginaviral.net/la-distanc...

Levenhstein Distance

An — 2020-11-19T16:16:32Z

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 i-literature.

Algolit is a workgroup around FLOSS literature and code, they organise regular meetings following the Oulipo principle. There is no need for programming knowledge, but if you have it, you're of course very welcome as well. The process will be documented during the day.

Littérature et Numérique

An — 2020-09-17T18:12:46Z

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.

Digitization and algorithms are opening up new ways of writing. Will the architecture of the narrative free itself from linearity? Are stories going to write themselves? Will the viewer-reader be able to intervene in the course of the story? Interactivity, non-linearity, automated writing? Revolutions ? Fantasies ? Dead ends? Chestnut trees ? Danger ? The pooling of different approaches to these questions, where plastic arts, technological developments and literary expressions are combined, should allow the visitors to reinterpret the notions of text, book, page, speech, narrative... And, of course, to question their own place, their role as perceivers/readers.

Opening on Friday 25-9 from 18h onwards in the framework of Parcours d'Artistes St-Gilles.

Thursday 1 October at 19h : encounter between the exposing artists and Valérie Cordy, director of la Fabrique de théâtre and teacher of Digital Arts in La Cambre.

Thursday 8 October at 19h : dialogue with philosopher Lambros Couloubaritsis. His latest works deal with the complexity and IA on the one hand and narrative violence on the other.

View online : https://lamaisondulivre.be/spip.php...

Word2vec in Morlanwelz

An — 2020-02-25T16:01:47Z

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 visiting 'Une Anthologie', an installation that Gijs de Heij & An Mertens made in the framework of the exhibition Bye Bye Future! We will look at the code (Gensim's word-2-vec, Wikipedia scraping, 1400 French SF and Fantasy novels...). And we can do new experiments.
In the afternoon we will get a guided tour by Sofiane Laghouati, the curator of the exhibition.

If you only want to come for the guided tour, you can take a train at Bruxelles-Centrale at 12h23, arriving at La Louvière-Sud at 1h22. Then you take bus 30 in the direction of Anderlues Jonction, arriving at the Musée at 2h13.

The tour will take about 2hs.

View online : http://www.musee-mariemont.be/index...

Algoliterary plans

An — 2019-09-25T19:13:36Z

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 meetings following the Oulipo principle. There is no need for programming knowledge, but if you have it, you're of course very welcome as well. The process will be documented during the day.

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Release & Publish often

An — 2019-04-25T11:02:37Z

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 deviations, we will dedicate one session to documenting the exhibition: gathering code, adding comments and licenses, publishing pictures, reorganising the wiki, making sure the datasets of Mundaneum and the podcast of the exhibition are accessible and can travel on the web, etc.

In the afternoon we welcome Xiaochang Li for a conversation. Xiaochang Li is researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She will present us our ideas on the history of automatic speech recognition. This gives a glimpse into how making language into data made data into an imperative, and thus shaped the conceptual and technical groundwork for what is now one of our most wide-reaching modes of computational knowledge. Read more.

View online : www.algolit.net

The Computational Scrawl

An — 2019-03-12T11:03:22Z

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 two-part workshop examines the physical gesture and material artifacts of the act of writing, as seen through the lens of computation and digital media. Taking contemporary and historical practices in asemic poetry, experimental typography and automatic writing as inspiration, participants will use the Python programming language to prototype speculative writing technologies that challenge conventional reading practices and notions of sense-making.
The goal of the workshop is twofold. First, to introduce asemic and automatic writing practices as historical and contemporary practices and invite participants to expand on these practices with computation; second, using asemic and automatic writing as a lens, encourage discussion around the rhetoric and materiality of language in digital and computational contexts.

About Allison:

Allison Parrish is a computer programmer, poet, educator and game designer whose teaching and practice address the unusual phenomena that blossom when language and computers meet, with a focus on artificial intelligence and computational creativity. She is an Assistant Arts Professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, where she earned her master's degree in 2008.

Named "Best Maker of Poetry Bots" by the Village Voice in 2016, Allison's computer-generated poetry has recently been published in Ninth Letter and Vetch. She is the author of "@Everyword: The Book" (Instar, 2015), which collects the output of her popular long-term automated writing project that tweeted every word in the English language. The word game "Rewordable," designed by Allison in collaboration with Adam Simon and Tim Szetela, was published by Penguin Random House in August
2017 after a successful round of Kickstarter funding. Her first full-length book of computer-generated poetry, "Articulations," was published by Counterpath in 2018.

Allison Parrish also gives a lecture the evening before in Passa Porta. has been invited to the 'Data Workers' exhibition with the support of: Ugent, DHuF - Digital Humanities Flanders, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles/Arts Numériques, Arts² and Constant.

View online : http://www.algolit.net

About automatic writing and autocomplete: the poetics of technology

An — 2019-03-12T09:46:03Z

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 consciously include this technological context in the literary creation process? How does the use of code - active or passive - change the notion of literature? What happens to the status of the author? And the role of the reader?

Allison Parrish, poet and professor of literary creation with code at NY University, suggests during this evening that computer-generated writing is a continuation of the dissociative experience of traditional automatic writing, which surrealists practiced to restore an oppressed primal consciousness. Parrish starts from the experimental work of Gertrude Stein. For Parrish, computer-generated literature is also a way of critically examining the materiality of writing, the physical and social context in which technologies live.

Young writers today also use software and networked technology without actively programming. Poets Rene Oskam and Zaineb Hamdi, for example, publish their poetry on instagram and have a virtual reading audience. For wtFOCK, the director Cecilia Verheyden created a story world that only exists online. In the second part of the programme we will discuss the forms that virtual texts can take and the specific work processes of an instagram poet and online director.

Allison Parrish will give a workshop the next day at the Mundaneum. She has been invited to the 'Data Workers' exhibition with the support of: Ugent, DHuF - Digital Humanities Flanders, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles/Arts Numériques, Arts² and Constant.

View online : https://www.passaporta.be