Comments on: Jason Nelson Speaks from the Machine http://grandtextauto.org/2006/11/08/jason-nelson-speaks-from-the-machine/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: David Ayre http://grandtextauto.org/2006/11/08/jason-nelson-speaks-from-the-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-99722 David Ayre Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:50:40 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1352#comment-99722 To much agreed ! Interdisciplainarity is critical in this realm.... i think for computer poetry, which i think has a more specific definition than "e-writing", the fields of computational linguistics and humanities computing are extremely informative... I wrote a bit about this on my blog in response to a post by Jim Carpenter: http://www.gtrlabs.org/blog/dayre/why_alg_is_hard_interdisciplinarity Visualization is important too... as a software developer with no formal education in computer graphics, I am at a loss in how to give visual life to the rich linguistic structures my software creates.... Vancouver's first dorkbot meeting was yesterday and it was great to meet graphic designers, motion graphics experts, electrical engineers, sculptors and others working in a variety of areas foreign to me, but so exciting and phat with possibility. Dorkbot provides some good trajectories for e-writing to explore... To much agreed ! Interdisciplainarity is critical in this realm…. i think for computer poetry, which i think has a more specific definition than “e-writing”, the fields of computational linguistics and humanities computing are extremely informative… I wrote a bit about this on my blog in response to a post by Jim Carpenter:

http://www.gtrlabs.org/blog/dayre/why_alg_is_hard_interdisciplinarity

Visualization is important too… as a software developer with no formal education in computer graphics, I am at a loss in how to give visual life to the rich linguistic structures my software creates…. Vancouver’s first dorkbot meeting was yesterday and it was great to meet graphic designers, motion graphics experts, electrical engineers, sculptors and others working in a variety of areas foreign to me, but so exciting and phat with possibility. Dorkbot provides some good trajectories for e-writing to explore…

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