Keyword: Writing 11

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Drawing Curved / Pierre Huyghebaert, Colm O’Neill, Femke Snelting

Great compact treatment of “curves” in design, especially in digital drawing tools. With some hints of qualities in certain physical curve tools, notes on the contingency of Bezier curves as a standard in digital design and some pointers to alternative approaches.

http://drawingcurved.osp.kitchen

Time Based Text / Jaromil, Jodi

“A software application that records performance time of written text and vehicles it as additional information: it saves and reproduces every single action during the composition of a text, so that an additional dimension of emphasis in written communication can be circulated.”

http://aaaan.net/jaromil-tbt-time-based-text/
http://rg42.org/wiki/tbt (example)

Part of Speech / Katherine Ye

Prototype of a conversational writing interface. “You can write and edit as usual on the left, and talk with a partner on the right. Its responses are meant to evoke and suggest, not answer.”

twitter.com/hypotext/status/1086764728502898690

Accelerated Logic / Ryan Gandler


“Printed, laser die-cut orange acrylic stencil containing annotations made by the artist, to page 11 of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing. The annotations select, highlight, as well as censor the still in-print publication. Mirroring the mass production of the available book, the work considers the possible multiplication of a personal perspective through the function of the stencil.”

New Interfaces for Textual Expression / Allison Parrish

“New Interfaces for Textual Expression is a series of devices intended to create and manipulate text. Analogous to contemporary work in the field of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), New Interfaces for Textual Expression are intuitive but not literal: they map gestures not to characters (as with conventional writing devices, such as the keyboard and the pen), but to broader manipulations of language and layout. The devices suggest new syntaxes for composing, reading, and performing text.”

http://www.decontextualize.com/projects/nite/

The Artist is Typing / Guido Segni

http://theartististyping.com

Automatic.ink

“Automatic.ink is a platform for algorithmic literature. Automatic.ink was designed around the following question : “What would an algorithmic literary writing tool look like?” … Many excellent “e-lit” tools, languages and libraries already exist for algorithmic literature (cf. Twine, RiTa, Fungus, …). Many of these tools, however, do not focus on the writing act, and require using development tools during the actual process of writing. … For the Automatic.ink platform, we instead focused on a writing tool that a poet might find compelling, and would therefore evolve out of an interface dedicated to the modular written word. As the research project evolved, our goal slowly evolved into a writing tool for text-based algorithmic literature, associated with a “programming language for poets” named AutomaticWriting<>.”

http://automatic.ink

Gingko

Writing environment with strong focus on structure. Documents are organized in a tree structure that is layed out in columns to traverse visually.

https://gingkoapp.com

Soylent

“Soylent is a crowd-powered interface: one that embeds workers from Mechanical Turk into Microsoft Word.”

http://projects.csail.mit.edu/soylent/

Lazy Pen / NAHO


“This tool allows the user to distort the typeface as they write, using the moving palettes placed beneath their palms. The goal is to be able to produce one’s own typography in real time, thus offering a more personal approach.”

https://www.nahornyj.com/project/lazy-pen.php

Association Machine / Hye Joo Jun

http://digital.udk-berlin.de/
http://www.hyejoojun.com