I define Computational Art as a sub-field in digital humanities that incorporates any level of computation to produce art. Forms of art are extremely open-ended and are meant to challenge preexisting methods of art. Over the course of my relationship with computational art, I’ve produced works intended to be engaged with both digitally and physically. Each of my works involve text in the form of a grammar, and then computationally generate novel variations following the designed grammar.
Project 1: Gucci Mane Inspirational Quotes
Gucci Mane, an influence rapper from Alabama, often blesses his twitter followers with inspirational quotes. I made a grammar consisting of the words and sentence structures from a set of inspirational tweets from Gucci Mane’s twitter account, @gucci1017. Using this grammar, I made a twitterbot that generated an inspirational quote and tweeted it every 6 hours. Original tweets are located at@GucciInspired
Project 2: Rule Book Generator
I made a grammar that generated arbitrary rules for multiplayer games. The decisions that go into the generated rules are selected from a corpus that was manually created by me. The final product is a brochure containing the rule set.
Project 3: E.E. Cummings’ Tulips & Chimneys Remediation/twitterbot
For my final project in Textual Technologies, I remediated a subset of poems from E.E. Cummings’ anthology, Tulips & Chimneys, into a twitter thread. Since its creation last Spring, the bot has been taken down by Twitter, unfortunately. In doing so, I reflected on the difference in medium for the viewer. I also made a a series of twitterbots that interacted with these tweets by remixing them and replying to them. Here is a link to a description of the project.
