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#<multi>[en]Algolit[fr]Algolit[nl]Algolit</multi>

<multi>[en]From October 2012 till December 2018 Algolit was a project of Constant, a workgroup around i-literature, free code and texts. In January 2019 the group became independent. The members meet 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. [nl]Van oktober 2012 tot december 2018 was Algolit een project van Constant. Algolit is een werkgroep rond vrije tekst en code. In januari 2019 werd de groep onafhankelijk. De leden van Algolit ontmoeten elkaar maandelijks volgens de principes van de Oulipo-meetings: ze delen hun werk en ideeën en creëren samen, soms ook in aanwezigheid van een genodigde. Algolit verwelkomt makers met een interesse voor digitale manieren van lezen en schrijven. [fr]D'octobre 2012 jusqu'à décembre 2018 Algolit était un projet de Constant. Algolit est un groupe de travail qui se réunit autour des pratiques de code, de textes et de littératures libres. Depuis janvier 2019, Algolit fonctionne de manière indépendante. Le groupe se rassemble régulièrement selon le principe des rencontres oulipiennes : ils partagent leur travail et leurs idées et créent ensemble, avec ou sans invité.e. Algolit est ouvert à toute personne intéressée à l’échange des pratiques autour des lectures et écritures digitales.</multi>

<multi>[en]Recent topics and agenda [nl]Recente thema's en kalender [fr]Sujets récents et calendrier: <http://algolit.net></multi>
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<multi>[en]Thanks to all people who passed by between 2012 and 2018: Catherine Lenoble, Nicolas Malevé, Olivier Heinry, An Mertens, Stéphanie Villayphiou, Brendan Howell, Silvio Lorusso, Gijs De Heij, Cristina Cochior, Hans Lammerant, Manetta Berends, Yvonne Lake, Mia Melvaer, Piero Biselli, Olivier Perriquet, Anne Laforet, Anja Groten, James Bryan Graves, Sarah Garcin, Maël Brunet, Javier Lloret, Tim Abramczik, Vinicius Marquet, David Trepp, Guillaume Slizewicz, Gerben Treora, Anaïs Berck. [nl]Dank aan alle mensen die deel namen tussen 2012 en 2018: Catherine Lenoble, Nicolas Malevé, Olivier Heinry, An Mertens, Stéphanie Villayphiou, Brendan Howell, Silvio Lorusso, Gijs De Heij, Cristina Cochior, Hans Lammerant, Manetta Berends, Yvonne Lake, Mia Melvaer, Piero Biselli, Olivier Perriquet, Anne Laforet, Anja Groten, James Bryan Graves, Sarah Garcin, Maël Brunet, Javier Lloret, Tim Abramczik, Vinicius Marquet, David Trepp, Guillaume Slizewicz, Gerben Treora, Anaïs Berck. [fr]Merci à toutes et tous qui ont participé entre 2012 et 2018: Catherine Lenoble, Nicolas Malevé, Olivier Heinry, An Mertens, Stéphanie Villayphiou, Brendan Howell, Silvio Lorusso, Gijs De Heij, Cristina Cochior, Hans Lammerant, Manetta Berends, Yvonne Lake, Mia Melvaer, Piero Biselli, Olivier Perriquet, Anne Laforet, Anja Groten, James Bryan Graves, Sarah Garcin, Maël Brunet, Javier Lloret, Tim Abramczik, Vinicius Marquet, David Trepp, Guillaume Slizewicz, Gerben Treora, Anaïs Berck.</multi>

## <multi>[en]Works [nl]Creaties [fr]Oeuvres</multi>

### Data Workers
<multi>[en]Mundaneum, Mons, March 2019 [nl]Mundaneum, Bergen, maart 2019 [fr]Mundaneum, Mons, mars 2019</multi>
<https://www.algolit.net/index.php/Data_Workers>


<multi>[en]Data Workers was an exhibition at the Mundaneum from 28th March till 28th April 2019, coproduced by Constant. It showed algoliterary works, stories told from an ’algorithmic storyteller point of view’. Companies create artificial intelligences to serve, entertain, record and know about humans. The work of these machinic entities is usually hidden behind interfaces and patents. In the exhibition, algorithmic storytellers leave their invisible underworld to become interlocutors.
The exhibition was a creation by members of Algolit. Some works were by students of Arts² and external participants to the workshop on machine learning and text organised by Algolit in October 2018 in Mundaneum. With the support of La Communauté française/Arts Numériques and Arts². [nl]Data Workers was een tentoonstelling in het Mundaneum van 28 maart tot 28 april 2019, in coproductie met Constant. Het toonde algoliteraire werken, verhalen die werden verteld vanuit een 'algoritmisch vertellersperspectief'. Bedrijven creëren kunstmatige intelligenties om de mens te dienen, te vermaken, te registreren en te leren kennen. Het werk van deze machinale entiteiten is meestal verborgen achter interfaces en patenten. In de tentoonstelling laten algoritmische verhalenvertellers hun onzichtbare onderwereld achter om gesprekspartners te worden.
De tentoonstelling was een creatie van leden van Algolit. Sommige werken waren van studenten van Arts² en externe deelnemers aan de workshop over machine learning en tekst, die Algolit in oktober 2018 in het Mundaneum organiseerde. Met de steun van La Communauté française/Arts Numériques en Arts². [fr]Data Workers était une exposition au Mundaneum du 28 mars au 28 avril 2019, coproduite par Constant. Elle présentait des œuvres algolittéraires, des histoires racontées d'un "point de vue de conteur algorithmique". Les entreprises créent des intelligences artificielles pour servir, divertir, enregistrer et connaître les humains. Le travail de ces entités machiniques est généralement caché derrière des interfaces et des brevets. Dans l'exposition, les conteurs algorithmiques quittent leur monde souterrain invisible pour devenir des interlocuteurs.
L'exposition est une création des membres d'Algolit. Certaines œuvres ont été réalisées par des étudiants en Arts² et des participants externes à l'atelier sur le machine learning et le texte organisé par Algolit en octobre 2018 à Mundaneum. Avec le soutien de la Communauté française/Arts Numériques et Arts².</multi>

### Algoliterator
<multi>[en]Muntpunt, Brussels, Public Domain Day, May 2018 [nl]Muntpunt, Brussel, Publiek Domein Dag, Mei 2018 [fr]Muntpunt, Bruxelles, La JOurnée du Domaine Public, mai 2018</multi>
<https://algolit.net/index.php/Algoliterator>


<multi>[en]The Algoliterator is trained using a neural network and the full works of Belgian author Felix Timmermans, who entered the public domain in 2018. The Algoliterator helps you to write a text in the style of Timmermans. You can choose a start sentence from his oeuvre, you can also choose whether you want the Algoliterator to produce the following sentences based on primitive training, intermediate training or final training. The machine proposes a paragraph that you can edit. If you are happy with the result, you can send it to Zora, the house robot of Muntpunt. She will read out the text for you. [nl]De Algoliterator werd getraind met een neuraal netwerk en het volledige werk van de Belgische auteur Felix Timmermans, die in 2018 in het publieke domein kwam. De Algoliterator helpt u bij het schrijven van een tekst in de stijl van Timmermans. U kunt een beginzin uit zijn oeuvre kiezen, u kunt ook kiezen of u de Algoliterator de volgende zinnen wilt laten schrijven op basis van een primitieve training, een middelmatige training of een optimale training. De machine stelt een paragraaf voor die u kunt bewerken. Als u tevreden bent met het resultaat, kunt u het naar Zora sturen, de huisrobot van Muntpunt. Die leest de tekst voor u voor. [fr]L'Algoliterator est formé à l'aide d'un réseau de neurones et l'œuvre complète de l'auteur belge Felix Timmermans, qui est entré dans le domaine public en 2018. L'Algoliterator vous aide à rédiger un texte dans le style de Timmermans. Vous pouvez choisir une phrase de départ de son œuvre, vous pouvez également choisir si vous voulez que l'Algoliterator produise les phrases suivantes en fonction de la formation primitive, de la formation intermédiaire ou de la formation finale. La machine propose un paragraphe que vous pouvez éditer. Si vous êtes satisfait du résultat, vous pouvez l'envoyer à Zora, le robot domestique de Muntpunt. Elle vous lira le texte à voix haute.</multi>
Sources: <https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/algolit/algoliterator.clone>

### <multi>[en]Algoliterary Encounter [nl]Algoliteraire Ontmoeting [fr]Rencontre algolittéraire</multi>
<multi>[en]La Maison du Livre, Brussels, Nov 2017 [nl]La Maison du Livre, Brussel, nov 2017 [fr]La Maison du Livre, Bruxelles, nov 2017</multi>
<https://algolit.net/index.php/Algoliterary_Encounters>


<multi>[en]In the framework of Saison Numérique the Maison du Livre opens its space for Algolit during three days in a row. The group presents lectures, workshops and a small exhibition about the narrative perspective of machine learning models. These selflearning algorithms are based on algebra and statistics. They often function as opaque ’blackbox’ algorithms, while they shape applications that are daily used on a worldwide scale, like search engines on the web, translation machines, advertising profiling, facial recognition etc.
Because machine learning models are so present, the members of Algolit felt the need to distillate reading and writing experiments from it. By executing parts of their construction process in a literary context, they become more legible. It is way to experience a few moments that are usually hidden in the making of the model, and that co-design contemporary stories in the way they influence the organisation of information. [nl]In het kader van Saison Numérique opent het Maison du Livre drie dagen lang haar ruimte voor Algolit. De groep presenteert lezingen, workshops en een tentoonstelling rond het narratieve perspectief van machine learning modellen. Ze bestaan uit zelflerende algoritmes op basis van algebra en statistiek. Vaak functioneren ze als ondoorzichtige ’blackbox’-algoritmes, maar ze geven vorm aan toepassingen die dagelijks op grote schaal worden gebruikt: zoekmachines op het web, vertaalmachines, advertentie-profilering, gezichtsherkenning voor identificering enz.
Omdat machine learning zo aanwezig is, voelden de leden van de werkgroep van Algolit het verlangen om er lees- en schrijfexperimenten uit te distilleren. Door onderdelen van het maakproces uit te voeren in een literaire context, worden ze beter leesbaar. Het is een manier om enkele momenten te ’beleven’ die verscholen liggen in de blackbox, en die vorm geven aan hedendaagse verhalen via hun invloed op informatieverwerking. [fr]Dans le cadre de la Saison des Cultures Numériques, la Maison du Livre ouvrira son espace à Algolit pendant trois jours. Le groupe y présentera des conférences, des ateliers et une modeste exposition autour de la perspective narrative des modèles d’apprentissage automatique. Ceux-ci sont construits à l’aide d’algorithmes sur base d’algèbre et de statistiques. Souvent ils fonctionnent comme des algorithmes ’black-box’ (opaques), mais ils sont cependant utilisés quotidiennement dans de nombreuses applications informatiques à grand échelle :  moteurs de recherche, applications de traduction automatique,  profiling pour la publicité, reconnaissance faciale pour les protocoles d’identificiation etc.
Face à l’omniprésence des modèles d’apprentissage automatique, les membres d’Algolit ont senti l’envie d’y distiller des expérimentations de lecture et d’écriture. L’exécution de parties de processus de création de ces modèles en contexte littéraire les rendent plus lisibles pour un public non inité. Il s’agit là d’une manière de se réapproprier quelques éléments de décision qui sont généralement cachés et de donner forme aux récits contemporains à travers l’organisation de l’information.</multi>

### CharRNN
<multi>[en]Algolit @ HS-la Senne/ de Zenne, Brussels, Nov 2017 [nl]Algolit @ HS-la Senne/de Zenne, Brussel, nov 2017 [fr]Algolit @ HS-la Senne/de Zenne, Bruxelles, nov 2017</multi>
<multi>[en]Learning to write with Jules Verne, Shakespeare and Felix Timmermans, the CharRNN text generator is a machine that produces new texts using a CharRNN model. The generator is trained on works by Jules Verne, Shakespeare and Timmermans. You can explore the different stages of the learning process through the installation in the space. Selected fragments based on the work of the three authors will be read by Fred Bernier, Gijs de Heij and An Mertens.
The model is based on a script by Justin Johnson. This script is an improved version of the original script by Andrej Karpathy. [nl]Leren schrijven met Jules Verne, Shakespeare en Felix Timmermans. De CharRNN tekstgenerator is een machine die nieuwe teksten produceert met behulp van een CharRNN model. De generator is getraind op werk van Jules Verne, Shakespeare en Timmermans. U kunt de verschillende stadia van het leerproces verkennen via de installatie in de ruimte. Geselecteerde fragmenten op basis van het werk van de drie auteurs worden voorgelezen door Fred Bernier, Gijs de Heij en An Mertens.
Het model is gebaseerd op een script van Justin Johnson. Dit script is een verbeterde versie van het oorspronkelijke script van Andrej Karpathy [fr]Apprenant à écrire avec Jules Verne, Shakespeare et Felix Timmermans. Le générateur de texte CharRNN est une machine qui produit de nouveaux textes en utilisant un modèle CharRNN. Le générateur est formé sur des œuvres de Jules Verne, Shakespeare et Timmermans. Vous pouvez explorer les différentes étapes du processus d'apprentissage grâce à l'installation dans l'espace. Des fragments choisis, basés sur le travail des trois auteurs, seront lus par Fred Bernier, Gijs de Heij et An Mertens.
Le modèle est basé sur un script de Justin Johnson. Ce script est une version améliorée du script original d'Andrej Karpathy</multi>

### <multi>[en]On Journey with Hovelbot [nl]Op reis met Hovelbot [fr]En Voyage avec Hovelbot</multi>
<multi>[en]Constant_V, Brussels, Oct 2016 [nl]Constant_V, Brussel, okt 2016 [fr]Constant_V, Bruxelles, oct 2016</multi>
<https://constantvzw.org/site/On-Journey-with-Hovelbot,2661.html>


<multi>[en]New landscapes are in the making by how we interact with our telephones and computers. Two hundred years after Mary Shelley wrote her novel Frankenstein, an Algolit Extended group reinterpreted part of the novel using contemporary artificial intelligence, ’On Journey with Hovelbot’ in the window of Constant shows one of the chat-bots made for this publication in the window of Constant.[nl]De manier waarop we communiceren met onze telefoons en computers draagt bij tot het ontwerp van nieuwe landschappen. Tweehonderd jaar na de verschijning van Mary Shelley’s roman Frankenstein herschreef een uitgebreide Algolit-groep een deel van die roman aan de hand van hedendaagse artificiële intelligentie. ’Op Reis met Hovelbot’ toont een van de chat-bots gemaakt voor deze publicatie, in de vitrine van Constant. [fr]De nouveaux paysages se créent par la manière dont nous interagissons avec nos téléphones et ordinateurs. Deux cent ans après l’écriture du roman Frankenstein de Mary Shelley, le groupe étendu d’Algolit a utilisé l’intelligence artificielle pour réinterpréter une partie du livre. "En voyage avec Hovelbot" montre l’un des "chat-bots" (robots de conversation) créé pour cette publication.</multi>

### <multi>[en]Frankenstein Revisited [nl]Frankenstein Revisited [fr]Frankenstein Revisited</multi>
<multi>[en]Mad Scientist Festival, Bern, Sept 2016 [nl]Mad Scientist Festival, Bern, sept 2016 [fr]Mad Scientist Festival, Bern, sept 2016</multi>
<https://www.algolit.net/frankenstein/>


<multi>[en]Artificial intelligence can be as complex as it can be simple. With a small group of literary Python lovers we organised a workshop in the festival Mad Scientist in Bern. 200 years after Mary Shelly’s publication of ’Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus’, we invited writers, artists, designers, programmers, and all people interested in literary chatbots based on or inspired by this gothic novel for three days of editing, writing and rewriting.[nl]Artifiële intelligentie kan complex zijn, maar ook heel eenvoudig. Met een kleine groep literaire Pythonliefhebbers organiseren we een driedaagse workshop in het kader van het Mad Scientist festival in Bern. Exact 200 jaar na de publicatie van Mary Shelly’s ’Frankenstein; of de Moderne Prometheus’, nodigen we schrijvers uit, kunstenaars, ontwerpers, programmeurs, en iedereen met interesse in literaire chatbots op basis van deze roman, voor drie dagen schrijf- en herschrijfplezier, becommentariëren, redigeren. [fr]L’intelligence artificielle peut être complexe tout comme elle peut être simple. Ce petit groupe d’amateurs de Python littéraire organise un atelier de trois jours dans le cadre du festival Mad Scientist à Bern. Deux cents ans après la publication du roman de Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein ; ou le Prométheus Moderne", nous invitons des écrivain.es, artistes, programmeur.ses, graphistes et tou.tes celles/ceux intéressé.es par les chatbots (robots de conversation) littéraires basés sur ce roman, à un atelier d’écriture, réécriture, rédaction.</multi>

### <multi>[en]Markov Chain [nl]Markov Chain [fr]Chaînes Markov</multi>
<multi>[en]Transmediale, Berlin, Jan 2015[nl]Transmediale, Berlijn, jan 2015 [fr]Transmediale, Berlin, janv 2015 </multi>
<multi>[en]Dick Reckard, An Mertens, Brendan Howell and Catherine Lenoble performed their Markov Chain algoliterary game during Transmediale. Rules of the game 'with sentences and cards': <https://www.paramoulipist.be/?p=1654>[nl]Dick Reckard, An Mertens, Brendan Howell en Catherine Lenoble voerden hun Markov Chain algoliterair spel uit tijdens Transmediale. Regels van het spel 'met zinnen en kaarten': <https://www.paramoulipist.be/?p=1654>[fr]Dick Reckard, An Mertens, Brendan Howell et Catherine Lenoble ont joué leur jeu algolittéraire Markov Chain pendant Transmediale. Règles du jeu "avec des phrases et des cartes": <https://www.paramoulipist.be/?p=1654></multi>

## <multi>[en]Meetings[nl]Sessies [fr]Sessions </multi>

### <multi>[en]List of all past Algolit meetings with link to the notes[nl]Lijst van alle voorbije Algolitsessies en een link naar de nota's[fr]Liste de toutes les sessions d'Aloglit passées et leur lien vers des notes</multi>
<https://algolit.net/index.php/Agenda#Past_Meetings>

### <multi>[en]Algologs[nl]Algologs [fr]Algologs </multi>
<multi>[en]Varia, Rotterdam, March 2018[nl]Varia, Rotterdam, maart 2018 [fr]Varia, Rotterdam, mars 2018 </multi>
<http://varia.zone/en/algologs.html>
<multi>[en]Algologs = a 1 + 1 day dialog with algorithmic practices. This two-day event is an extention of Algolit, a workgroup where text-based practices and algorithms meet. Algologs is part of a series of occurances meant to open up the usually Brussels-based Algolit meetings by inviting external speakers, presenters and participants to join the conversation. During Algologs, we will increase the % of engagement with everyday algorithms.[nl]Algologs = een 1 + 1 dag dialoog met algoritmische praktijken. Dit tweedaagse evenement is een uitbreiding van Algolit, een werkgroep waar tekstuele praktijken en algoritmes elkaar ontmoeten. Algologs maakt deel uit van een reeks evenementen die bedoeld zijn om de meestal Brusselse Algolit bijeenkomsten te openen, door externe sprekers, presentatoren en deelnemers te laten deelnemen aan het gesprek. Tijdens Algologs zullen we het % engagement met alledaagse algoritmes verhogen. [fr]Algologs = un dialogue de 1 + 1 jour avec les pratiques algorithmiques. Cet événement de deux jours est une extension d'Algolit, un groupe de travail où les pratiques textuelles et les algorithmes se rencontrent. Algologs fait partie d'une série d'événements destinés à ouvrir les réunions Algolit, habituellement basées à Bruxelles, en invitant des conférenciers externes, des présentateurs et des participants à se joindre à la conversation. Pendant Algologs, nous allons augmenter le % d'engagement avec les algorithmes de tous les jours. </multi>

### <multi>[en]A Story[nl]Een Verhaal [fr]Un Récit </multi>
 <multi>[en]Witte de With, Rotterdam, March 2016[nl]Witte de With, Rotterdam, maart 2016 [fr]Witte de With, Rotterdam, mars 2016 </multi>
<https://algolit.constantvzw.org/index.php/A_story>
<https://www.fkawdw.nl/en/our_program/events/contested_tongues_presented_by_class_of_16>
 <multi>[en]Manetta Berends, Gijs de Heij & An Mertens presented some algoliterary experiments.[nl]Manetta Berends, Gijs de Heij & An Mertens stelden een reeks algoliteraire experimenten voor. [fr]Manetta Berends, Gijs de Heij & An Mertens ont présenté quelques expériments algolittéraires. </multi>

###  <multi>[en]Cqrrelations[nl]Cqrrelaties [fr]Cqrrélations </multi>
 <multi>[en]Constant worksession, DeBuren, Brussels, Jan 2015[nl]Werksessie Constant, DeBuren, Brussel, jan 2015 [fr]Session de Travail Constant, DeBuren, Bruxelles, janv 2015 </multi>
<https://www.cqrrelations.constantvzw.org/1x0/>


 <multi>[en]’Cqrrelations’ (pronounce crummylations, querylations...) was a Constant worksession in Brussels, inspired by the work of Algolit. The worksession invited data travellers, writers, numbergeeks, programmers, artists, mathematicians, storytellers, and other tech creative souls to explore the world of digital non-relations, desanalysis, blurry categorisations and crummylations in the Big Data that shapes our daily reality and language. They experimented amongst other things with databases on potatoes, and text analysis tools developed by researchers from CLiPS at the University of Antwerp. The session used datasets built from large corpora of natural language to build systems that can accurately guess the gender and age of writers and even find probable lies in written text. [nl] Cqrrelaties' (uitspreken van crummylaties, querylaties...) was een Constant werksessie in Brussel, geïnspireerd op het werk van Algolit. De werksessie nodigde datareizigers, schrijvers, numbergeeks, programmeurs, kunstenaars, wiskundigen, verhalenvertellers en andere techn-creatieve zielen uit om de wereld van digitale non-relaties, desalyse, wazige categorisaties en crummyleringen in de Big Data te verkennen die onze dagelijkse realiteit en taal vormgeven. Ze experimenteerden onder meer met databases over aardappelen, en tekstanalyse-instrumenten ontwikkeld door onderzoekers van CLiPS aan de Universiteit van Antwerpen. De sessie gebruikte datasets opgebouwd uit grote corpora van natuurlijke taal om systemen te bouwen die het geslacht en de leeftijd van de schrijvers nauwkeurig kunnen raden en zelfs mogelijke leugens in geschreven tekst kunnen vinden. [fr]Cqrrelations" (prononcer crummylations, querylations...) était une session de travail de Constant à Bruxelles, inspirée par le travail d'Algolit. Cette session a accueilli des voyageurs de données, des écrivains, des numéroteurs, des programmeurs, des artistes, des mathématiciens, des conteurs et d'autres créateurs technologiques à explorer le monde des non-relations numériques, de la désanalyse, des catégorisations floues et des crummylations dans les Big Data qui façonnent notre réalité et notre langage quotidiens. Ils ont notamment expérimenté avec des bases de données sur les pommes de terre, et des outils d'analyse de texte développés par les chercheurs de CLiPS à l'Université d'Anvers. La session a utilisé des ensembles de données construits à partir de grands corpus de langage naturel pour construire des systèmes capables de deviner avec précision le sexe et l'âge des écrivains et même de trouver des mensonges probables dans un texte écrit. </multi>

###  <multi>[en]Close-Reading Kenneth Goldsmith's Uncreative writing, Brussels, June 2015[nl]Close-Reading Kenneth Goldsmith's Uncreative writing, Brussel, juni 2015 [fr]Close-Reading Kenneth Goldsmith's Uncreative writing, Bruxelles, juin 2015 </multi>


 <multi>[en]As part of the residency of artists Billy Bultheel & Enad Marouf in Brussels, Constant/Algolit co-organised a close-reading session of Kenneth Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writing on 5, 6, 7th June 2015. The idea was to create a space for presentation, exchange, discussion on new ways of reading and writing.
Read a little more on this book: <http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/02/13/uncreative-writing-kenneth-goldsmith/>
A logbook was made with the collective notes of the session. Each participant received it as a printed and binded copy.[nl]Als deel van de Brusselse residentie van kunstenaars Billy Bultheel & Enad Marouf, co-organiseerde Constant op 5, 6 en 7 juni 2015 een close-reading van Kenneth Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writing. Met het boek als leidraad creërden we een ruimte voor presentaties, uitwisseling en discussie over nieuwe manieren van lezen en schrijven. 
Meer over dit boek: <http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/02/13/uncreative-writing-kenneth-goldsmith/> 
We maakten een logboek met de collectieve notities van de sessie. Elke deelnemer ontving het als een gedrukt en gebonden exemplaar. [fr]Dans le cadre d’une résidence des artistes Billy Bultheel & Enad Marouf à Bruxelles, Constant co-organisait une session de lecture et de travail autour du livre de Kenneth Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writing. On a créé un espace pour des présentations, des échanges et des discussion autour de nouvelles pratiques de lecture et d’écriture. 
Plus d’information sur le livre : <http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/02/13/uncreative-writing-kenneth-goldsmith/>
Un journal de bord a été créé à partir des notes collectives de la session. Chaque participant l'a reçu sous forme d'un exemplaire imprimé et relié.</multi>

###  <multi>[en]Désert Numérique #5, La Drôme (FR), July 2014  [nl]Désert Numérique #5, La Drôme (FR), juli 2014 [fr]Désert Numérique #5, La Drôme (FR), juillet 2014 </multi>


<http://www.paramoulipist.be/algolit/Radio_algolit_1.wav>
 <multi>[en]Catherine, Brendan, Nicolas and An created this first performative lecture in the framework of Désert Numérique #5. It was recorded and broadcasted on Radio Mulhouse MNE, Radio Panik in Brussels, Reboot FM in Berlin and Radio Libertaire in Paris.[nl]Catherine, Brendan, Nicolas en An creëerden deze eerste performatieve lezing in het kader van Désert Numérique #5. Ze werd opgenomen en uitgezonden op Radio Mulhouse MNE, Radio Panik in Brussel, Reboot FM in Berlijn en Radio Libertaire in Parijs. [fr] Catherine, Brendan, Nicolas et An ont créé cette première conférence performative dans le cadre de Désert Numérique #5. Elle a été enregistrée et diffusée sur Radio Mulhouse MNE, Radio Panik à Bruxelles, Reboot FM à Berlin et Radio Libertaire à Paris.</multi>

<https://next.liberation.fr/culture/2014/07/08/desert-numerique-festival-fertile_1059175>
<multi>[en]Algolit at Désert Numérique #5, by Marie Lechner[nl]Algolit tijdens Désert Numérique #5, door Marie Lechner [fr]Algolit à Désert Numérique #5, par Marie Lechner </multi>
'Ce jeu de traduction est également pratiqué par le collectif Algolit, cinq artistes et programmeurs disséminés en Europe, qui explorent les correspondances entre la littérature et le code informatique. Leur lecture performance à la salle des fêtes s’est faite sous l’égide de Nicolas Bourbaki, prête-nom d’un groupe mythique de mathématiciens français, qui a inspiré les écrivains de l’Oulipo. Lors de cette séance, elle-même très oulipienne, ils se sont appliqués à décortiquer le fonctionnement de l’algorithme de Markov, utilisé entre autres dans l’écriture automatique des spams. Cet algorithme doit son nom à un mathématicien russe passionné par les statistiques, qui a conçu un modèle de probabilités (la chaîne de markov) à partir non pas de chiffres, mais des vers d’un chef-d’œuvre de Pouchkine Eugène Onéguine. Algolit détourne ainsi les règles de l’algorithme à des fins de création littéraire, et reproduit le procédé sans ordinateur, via un jeu à base de Post-it et de lancers de dés. Une manière de détricoter ces technologies toujours plus opaques qui nous modèlent à notre insu.'

###  <multi>[en]Chercher le texte[nl]Chercher le texte [fr]Chercher le texte </multi>
<multi>[en]Paris, October 2013[nl]Paris, oktober 2013 [fr]Paris, octobre 2013 </multi>
<multi>[en]Program:[nl]Programma [fr]Programme </multi> <http://chercherletexte.org/fr/performance/textnfx/>
<multi>[en]Report by An:[nl]Verslag door An: [fr]Rapport par An: </multi> <https://www.paramoulipist.be/?p=1243>

###  <multi>[en]Constant Variable, Brussels, July 2013[nl]Constant Variable, Brussel, juli 2013 [fr]Constant Variable, Bruxelles, juillet 2013 </multi>
<multi>[en]Spam poetry using Neel Doff, a residency with Olivier Heinry & An Mertens[nl]Spam poëzie met Neel Doff, een residentie van Olivier Heinry & An Mertens [fr]La poésie spam avec Neel Doff, une résidence de Olivier Heinry & An Mertens </multi>
<multi>[en]Notes:[nl]Nota's: [fr]Notes: </multi> <https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/D0ff_N3t3l>
<multi>[en]Announcement:[nl]Aankondiging: [fr]Annonce: </multi> <https://www.paramoulipist.be/?p=1210>
<multi>[en]Code D0ff N3t3l:[nl]Code D0ff N3t3l: [fr]Code D0ff N3t3l: </multi> https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/algolit/algolit/-/tree/master/before_2018/D0ff_N3t3l
<multi>[en]Scanning Neel Doff:[nl]Scanning Neel Doff: [fr]Scanning Neel Doff: </multi> <https://www.paramoulipist.be/?p=1175>
<multi>[en]Neel Doff from pdf to text:[nl]Neel Doff van pdf naar text: [fr]Neel Doff du pdf vers un fichier texte: </multi> <https://www.paramoulipist.be/?p=1216>
<multi>[en]Neel Doff OCR:[nl]Neel Doff OCR: [fr]Neel Doff OCR: </multi> <https://www.paramoulipist.be/?p=1303>

### <multi>[en]Residency 2[nl]Residentie 2 [fr]Résidence 2 </multi>
<multi>[en]Nantes, 27-29th May 2013[nl]Nantes, 27-29 mei 2013 [fr]Nantes, 27-29 mai 2013 </multi>
<multi>[en]Looking into the notion of 'algorithm'[nl]Onderzoek naar het concept 'algoritme' [fr]Examen de la notion d'"algorithme". </multi>
Catherine Lenoble, Nicolas Malevé, Olivier Heinry, An Mertens
<multi>[en]Report by An:[nl]Verslag door An: [fr]Notes par An: </multi> <https://www.paramoulipist.be/?p=1256>
<multi>[en]Ideas for workshop ERG by Nicolas: [nl]Ideeën voor een workshop in ERG, door Nicolas: [fr]Idées pour un atelier à l'ERG, par Nicolas </multi><https://www.paramoulipist.be/?p=1257>
<multi>[en]Pictures:[nl]Foto's [fr]Images: </multi> <https://gallery3.constantvzw.org/index.php/Algolit-Nantes>

### Masterclass FIGURA: Literature and Media Innovations - the question of genre transformations
<multi>[en]Musée Royal de Mariemont, Feb 2013[nl]Musée Royal de Mariemont, feb 2013 [fr]Musée Royal de Mariemont, févr 2013 </multi>
<multi>[en]Program:[nl]Programma: [fr]Programme: </multi> <https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/Algolit_masterclass_figura_20130215>
<multi>[en]Notes:[nl]Nota's: [fr]Notes: </multi> <https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/Algolit_masterclass_figura_130215_notes>

### <multi>[en]Residency 1[nl]Residentie 1 [fr]Résidence 1 </multi>
<multi>[en]Variable, Brussels, Oct 2012[nl]Variable, Brussel, okt 2012 [fr]Variable, Bruxelles, oct 2012 </multi>
<multi>[en]Exploring the space between media art and literature[nl]Het verkennen van de ruimte tussen mediakunst en literatuur [fr]Explorer l'espace entre les arts numériques et la littérature </multi>
Catherine Lenoble, Nicolas Malevé, Olivier Heinry, An Mertens, Stéphanie Vilayphiou


<multi>[en]In October 2012 Catherine and An arranged a first residency of 4 days in Brussels, together with the poetic programmers Nicolas Malevé and Olivier Heinry. Stéphanie Villayphiou was the guest on the first day. They exchanged practises, looked into existing works, talked extendedly about Oulipo. In the end the name Algolit was born, with a mailinglist to continue the stream of ideas.[nl]In oktober 2012 organiseerden Catherine en An een eerste residentie van 4 dagen in Brussel, samen met de poëtische programmeurs Nicolas Malevé en Olivier Heinry. Stéphanie Villayphiou was de eerste dag te gast. Ze wisselden praktijken uit, keken naar bestaande werken, spraken uitgebreid over Oulipo. Uiteindelijk werd de naam Algolit geboren, met een mailinglist om de ideeënstroom voort te zetten.[fr]En octobre 2012, Catherine et An ont organisé une première résidence de 4 jours à Bruxelles, en collaboration avec les programmateurs poétiques Nicolas Malevé et Olivier Heinry. Stéphanie Villayphiou était l'invitée du premier jour. Ils ont échangé leurs pratiques, se sont penchés sur les œuvres existantes et ont longuement parlé de l'Oulipo. Finalement, le nom Algolit est né, avec une liste de diffusion pour poursuivre le flot d'idées. </multi>

<multi>[en]Notes:[nl]Nota's: [fr]Notes: </multi> <https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/Algolit_121010>
<multi>[en]Report by An:[nl]Verslag van An: [fr]Rapport par An: </multi> <https://www.adashboard.org/?p=917>
<multi>[en]Report by Olivier:[nl]Verslag van Olivier: [fr]Rapport par Olivier: </multi> <http://www.heinry.fr/olivier/index.php/category/Humeurs>
<multi>[en]Report by Catherine:[nl]Verslag van Catherine:  [fr]Rapport par Catherine: </multi> <http://litteraturing.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/litteraturing-in-brussels-part-one/> 
<https://litteraturing.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/litteraturing-in-brussels-part-two/>

<multi>[en]2 Python scripts were created:[nl]2 Python scripts werden geschreven:[fr]2 scripts Python ont été réalisés: </multi>
<multi>[en]by Nicolas:[nl]by Nicolas: [fr]by Nicolas: </multi> <https://www.algolit.net/scripts/residency1_121010/pyilit.py>
<multi>[en]by Catherine/An: [nl]door Catherine/An: [fr]bpar Catherine/An: <https://www.algolit.net/scripts/residency1_121010/startNLTK.py>

## <multi>[en]Genesis[nl]Genese [fr]Génèse </multi>

### <multi>[en]LABtoLAB[nl]LABtoLAB [fr]LABtoLAB </multi>


<multi>[en]From 2009 till 2011 LABtoLAB was a network of media labs set up by 4 European organizations that are active in the field of new media : Constant (Brussels, BE), Kitchen Budapest (Budapest, HU), Medialab-Prado (Madrid, ES), PiNG (Nantes, FR).
It aims was to create a platform for sharing experiences and ways of doing, exploring the role of the lab in offering spaces for collaborative learning and knowledge exchange, studying specific cases and examining the possibilities of life-long learning in the context of the lab. From 2009 to 2011, meetings, workshops and seminars took place in Budapest, Madrid, Brussels and Nantes. Each encounter opened up to a wider community of labs and individuals, and extended beyond European borders. This website documents the process and its outcomes. 
Catherine Lenoble, initiator of the project, was interested in the practise of An Mertens, as both are writers in the classical sense of the word, and also experimenting in the media arts world. Catherine and An promised each other that they would get together on a quiet moment to discuss their personal work.[nl]Van 2009 tot 2011 was LABtoLAB een netwerk van medialabs opgericht door 4 Europese organisaties die actief zijn op het gebied van nieuwe media: Constant (Brussel, BE), Kitchen Budapest (Boedapest, HU), Medialab-Prado (Madrid, ES), PiNG (Nantes, FR).
Het doel was om een platform te creëren voor het delen van ervaringen en werkmethodes, de rol van het lab in het aanbieden van ruimtes voor collaboratief leren en kennisuitwisseling, het bestuderen van specifieke gevallen en het onderzoeken van de mogelijkheden van levenslang leren in de context van het lab. Van 2009 tot 2011 vonden bijeenkomsten, workshops en seminars plaats in Boedapest, Madrid, Brussel en Nantes. Elke ontmoeting creëerde een bredere gemeenschap van laboratoria en individuen, en strekte zich uit tot buiten de Europese grenzen. Deze website documenteert het proces en de resultaten ervan. 
Catherine Lenoble, initiatiefneemster van het project, was geïnteresseerd in de praktijk van An Mertens, aangezien beide schrijfsters in de klassieke zin van het woord zijn en ook experimenteren in de mediakunstwereld. Catherine en An beloofden elkaar dat ze op een rustig moment samen zouden komen om hun persoonlijke werk te bespreken. [fr]De 2009 à 2011, LABtoLAB était un réseau de laboratoires de médias mis en place par 4 organisations européennes actives dans le domaine des nouveaux médias : Constant (Bruxelles, BE), Kitchen Budapest (Budapest, HU), Medialab-Prado (Madrid, ES), PiNG (Nantes, FR).
L'objectif était de créer une plateforme pour partager des expériences et des façons de faire, d'explorer le rôle du laboratoire en offrant des espaces d'apprentissage collaboratif et d'échange de connaissances, d'étudier des cas spécifiques et d'examiner les possibilités d'apprentissage à vie dans le contexte du laboratoire. De 2009 à 2011, des réunions, des ateliers et des séminaires ont eu lieu à Budapest, Madrid, Bruxelles et Nantes. Chaque rencontre s'est ouverte à une communauté plus large de laboratoires et d'individus, et s'est étendue au-delà des frontières européennes. Ce site web documente le processus et ses résultats. 
Catherine Lenoble, initiatrice du projet, s'est intéressée à la pratique d'An Mertens, car toutes les deux sont des écrivaines au sens classique du terme, et expérimentent également dans le monde des arts numériques. Catherine et An se sont promises de se réunir dans un moment de calme pour discuter de leur travail personnel. </multi>
<http://www.labtolab.org/>

### <multi>[en]Verbindingen/Jonctions 9[nl]Verbindingen/Jonctions 9 [fr]Verbindingen/Jonctions 9 </multi>


<multi>[en]In 2005 Constant organised the meeting days Verbindingen/Jonctions around the Language of Sharing.
An Mertens was invited to 'creatively' translate the interventions of the guests. In this image you see her translating Oulipo-member Jacques Jouet. It was An's first encounter with Oulipo. The collective was introduced from their algorithmic point of view: potential literature based on conditions that could be lines of code. An was fascinated. This encounter resonated with her for years.[nl]In 2005 organiseerde Constant de ontmoetingsdagen Verbindingen/Jonctions rond de Taal van het Delen. An Mertens was uitgenodigd om de interventies van de gasten 'creatief' te vertalen. Op deze foto zie je haar Oulipo-lid Jacques Jouet vertalen. Het was Ans eerste ontmoeting met Oulipo. Het collectief werd geïntroduceerd vanuit hun algoritmische invalshoek: potentiële literatuur die gebaseerd is op voorwaarden die lijnen programmeertaal zouden kunnen zijn. An was gefascineerd. Deze ontmoeting zou nog jarenlang resoneren. [fr]En 2005, Constant a organisé les journées de rencontre Verbindingen/Jonctions autour de la Langue du Partage.
An Mertens a été invitée à traduire de manière "créative" les interventions des invités. Sur cette image, vous la voyez traduire Jacques Jouet, membre de l'Oulipo. C'était la première rencontre d'An avec l'Oulipo. Le collectif a été présenté de son point de vue algorithmique : une littérature potentielle basée sur des conditions qui pourraient être des lignes de code. An était fascinée. Cette rencontre résonnerait en elle pendant des années. </multi>

<http://constantvzw.org/w/?u=http://archive.constantvzw.org/events/vj9/>


## <multi>[en]References[nl]Referenties [fr]Références </multi>
<multi>[en]In October 2012 we started a mailinglist. In the following references (per year) you see clearly how Algolit evolved as a group but also in its interests and topics.[nl]In oktober 2012 startten we een mailinglist. In de referenties die volgen (per jaar) zie je duidelijk hoe Algolit zich als groep evolueerde, maar ook qua interesses en onderwerpen. [fr]En octobre 2012, nous avons lancé une mailingliste. Dans les références suivantes (par an), vous voyez clairement comment Algolit a évolué en tant que groupe mais aussi dans ses intérêts et ses sujets. </multi>

### 2012
<http://datapride.wordpress.com/>
"J'y ai rencontré plusieurs universitaires spécialistes en TAL, c'est à dire traitement automatisé de la langue, et que les manipulations
auxquelles nous nous sommes livrés relèvent de la génétique textuelle." Olivier Heinry

<http://www.cnrtl.fr/>
"Créé en 2005 par le CNRS, le CNRTL fédère au sein d’un portail unique, un ensemble de ressources linguistiques informatisées et d’outils de traitement de la langue. Le CNRTL intègre le recensement, la documentation (métadonnées), la normalisation, l’archivage, l’enrichissement et la diffusion des ressources. La pérennité du service et des données est garantie par l’adossement à l’UMR ATILF (CNRS – Nancy Université), le soutien du CNRS ainsi que l’intégration dans le projet d’infrastructure européenne CLARIN.

<http://gutenbergzuckerberg.blogspot.com/>
"à propos, voici un expérience poétique assez particulière que j'ai faite il y a peu, ça a fait pas mal jaser sur ce réseau en question." Robin Decourcy

<http://bookotron.com/agony/news/2011/12-26-11-podcast.htm#podcast122611>
Interview with Jonatham Lethem on his 'collage' book The Extasy of Influence.

<https://boingboing.net/2012/11/29/the-many-stages-of-writing-a-r.html>
Timelapse view of writing a research paper

<http://www.internetactu.net/2012/11/27/le-pudibond-internet-qui-controlera-les-algorithmes>
"La prolifération de la fonction de saisie semi-automatique sur les sites web les plus populaires en est un autre exemple (“Les résultats qui s’autocomplètent dans les moteurs de recherche soulignent le caractère privé des conversations que les gens croient avoir leurs ordinateurs” rappelait récemment Sean Gourley du moteur de recherche Quid dans un article du New York Times). En théorie, tout ce que fait la saisie automatique est de compléter votre requête avant que vous ayez fini de la taper en utilisant un algorithme pour prédire ce que vous allez inscrire. ...
"Morozow suggère une sorte d'audit comme pour les banques car il n'y a aucun moyen de forcer ces compagnies à ouvrir leurs algorithmes. C'est leur core business. Mais même une telle mesure on en est loin." Nicolas Malevé

### 2013

<https://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2012/10/750-daguerreotype-portrait-mosaic-1840-1860.html>  
"Nicolas, j'ai pensé à toi et ta code poetry à la vue de cette page de daguerreotypes"

<http://africaunchained.blogspot.com/>  
AfroSF | African SciFi anthology: via Boing BoingAfroSF is the first ever anthology of Science Fiction by Africa

<http://p.xuv.be/2013-marques-pages>  
Un spécial pour Catherine:

An, bon anniversaire!
nicolas@peripheral:~$ sudo apt-get install an
nicolas@peripheral:~$ man an

<http://blog.fperez.org/2012/01/ipython-notebook-historical.html>  
"vous vous souvenez sans doute en octobre dernier de la console python
ainsi que d'une autre console un brin plus avancée baptisée iPython?
Via la liste OKFN, j'ai appris que cette console abrite depuis fin 2011
un notebook permettant d'intégrer formules, images vidéos etc dans un
journal ensuite lisible par n'importe quel navigateur.
Tous les détails sont dans cet article."

<http://sens-public.org/>  
Labo et la revue sens public à Lyon. Un des boulots récents sur le site est le recueil "Pures Données" (http://sens-public.org/spip.php?article964) consacrés aux rapports entre écriture et compilation de données, une collection de textes sont présentés ayant pour objet commun d’investir la forme de la liste en résonance avec les pratiques computationnelles. 

<http://w3.erss.univ-tlse2.fr/textes/pagespersos/tanguy/HDR/HDR.pdf>  
Complexification des données et des techniques en linguistique : contributions du traitement automatique des langues aux solutions et aux problèmes, Ludovic Tanguy, 13 décembre 2012
Ce mémoire traite entre autres des différentes approches du traitement informatique du langage, ainsi que de ses impasses. C'est plutot rédigé à la première personne, pas du tout dans un ton scientifique désincarné, et il y a pleins de choses à piocher on dirait.

<http://vimeo.com/43759584>  
Conférence 'L’auteur numérique' : avec Pierre Ménard, Catherine Lenoble, Cécile Portier.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel-17>  
The language is a code, it is not based on a code. It explores this idea of 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity>

<https://www.chronicle.com/article/its-not-plagiarism-in-the-digital-age-its-repurposing/>
by Kenneth Goldsmith, créateur d'ubuweb, entre autres

<https://carinekrecke.wixsite.com/kreckesisters>  
Les deux soeurs jumelles Carine & Elisabeth Kreché. Leur 
présentation était raffraîchaissante, puisqu'elles étaient les premières 
et les seules (si je ne me trompe pas) à expérimenter avec la 
fiction/les récits d'un nouveau terrain: Google Street View. Elles 
considèrent le mapping par photo comme un grand archive de photos 
'machinales' prises par une machine, tout comme les images de 
caméras de 
surveillance.
Elles se posent les questions suivantes:
- quel est le statut de ces images produites par une machine, sans 
auteur & sans regard?
- jusque quel point racontent-elles la vérité?
- comment peut-on/doit-on interagir avec cette collection immense, voire 
universelle, elle veut reporduire le monde, qui appartient à des 
monopoles d'exploitation?
Elles proposent de pousser les frontières de l'art vers cette enquête 
critique et prendre position. On le fait par:
- toucher à cet espace 'universel'
- y constituer un itinéraire qui introduit une subjectivité, le récit -> 
on regarde le monde à travers l'écran, grâce à cet outil on peut visiter 
des lieux 'dangereux'

<https://carinekrecke.wixsite.com/kreckesisters/dakotagate>  
Le point de départ de cette création était une photo d'un homme avec un 
kalashnikov devant un supermarché, photo qui a été enlevée après par 
Google; elles sont allées sur place pour découvrir les images absentes 
et ont fait un récit de voyage sur ce qu'elles y ont vécu, notamment un 
grand conflit local avec le sindiens sioux...

<https://carinekrecke.wixsite.com/kreckesisters/404-not-found>  
Oeuvre composée de captures d'écran de Jerez (Mexique), la ville qui est 
célèbre pour ses narcotraficants et les violences contre les femmes
Elles sont allées voir qu'on trouve des traces de cette violence sur 
Google Street View; Google Street View devient 'porte-parole' par cette 
perspective
Elles décrivent de façon 'neutre' ce qu'elles voient, comme le genre du 
roman documentaire; elles deviennent les excécutrices littéraires du 
GSTreetView

Très chouette tout cela, sauf qu'il n'y avait pas de prise de position 
particulière sur:
- comment 'regarder des images sans contexte': dans Recorded Futures 
elles montrent une photo d'une grande tâche rouge sur le sol entre deux 
rues, qui pourrait induire l'idée qu'il s'agit du sang, mais qui 
pourrait très bien aussi être une tâche chimique. L'interprétation est 
au spectateurs... elles ne font que montrer
- idem pour leurs descriptions 'neutres', soi-disant
Cette attitude qui se réflète dans le 'récit' opaque de leurs 
publications artistiques m'a énérvée un peu, sinon le propos est 
chouette: écrire des romans policiers avec Google Street View ;-)

<http://www.codecademy.com>
Python course for beginners

<https://www.liberation.fr/ecrans/1997/06/06/queneau-interdit-de-web-le-fils-de-l-ecrivain-gagne-un-proces-pour-contrefacon-en-ligne_207696>
concernant l'affaire "*Queneau interdit de Web*"
Décision de justice complète ici :
<http://www.legalis.net/spip.php?page=jurisprudence-decision&id_article=108>

On aimerait étiqueter le texte suivant
<http://www.legalis.net/spip.php?page=jurisprudence-decision&id_article=108>
pour remplacer chaque substantif par le 7ème substantif qui suit (un texte S+7 récursif pour reprendre la terminologie de l'Oulipo).
Tu connais un set de Part of speech francophone à installer dans nltk?

Thomas Girault:
Si tu cherches un Part of Speech Tagger pour le français, il y en a plusieurs :
TreeTagger : <http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/~schmid/tools/TreeTagger/>
J'ai pas testé mais il semble que qq'un a écrit un wrapper compatible NLTK
<https://github.com/miotto/treetagger-python/blob/master/treetagger.py>
J'ai aussi entendu parler du Stanford Part-Of-Speech Tagger qui semble
s'interfacer avec NLTK.
<http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/tagger.shtml>
<https://code.google.com/p/nltk/source/browse/trunk/nltk/nltk/tag/stanford.py?r=8712>
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9663918/how-can-i-tag-and-chunk-french-text-using-nltk-and-python>
Tu devrais sans doute pouvoir étiqueter tes textes avec ces outils. Tu pourras déjà travailler sur les noms communs (les substantifs c'est une autre histoire !).

```python
Fnyhg Nytbyvg!
comment: !/usr/bin/env python
comment: -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import codecs  
print(codecs.encode("Salut Algolit!","rot13"))
```

<http://twitter.com/pickover>
*Cliff Pickover* @pickover
Shiver in ecstasy. This is a palindromic prime:
11933316181512171330203317121518161333911.

<http://www.openbeelden.nl/media/615463/Schrijfmachine_collectie>
type writer collection

<https://larlet.fr/david/biologeek/archives/20080511-bonnes-pratiques-et-astuces-python/>
passage sur les lists comprehensions très clair

<http://fabienpoulard.info/post/2011/01/09/Python-et-Tree-Tagger>
Tree Tagger

<http://fabienpoulard.info/post/2011/01/04/Petit-script-pour-d%C3%A9couvrir-les-expressions-rationnelles>
découvrir les expressions rationelles (même source que TreeTagger)

```python
ROT 13 in LOOP
comment:!/usr/bin/env python
comment: -*- coding: utf8 -*-
from codecs import encode, decode
print("\n###########################################################\n")
print("#\n#                ROT13 is NOT fun!                       #\n#")                                                        
print("#\n###########################################################")
def rotatif(source):
    source = unicode(source,"utf8")
    #print "type de saisie : "
    #print type(source)
    sortie = encode(source, "rot13")
   #bug en cas de caractères non-ASCIIsans la ligne suivante
    sortie = unicode(decode(sortie, "iso-8859-1"))
    #print "type de sortie : "
    #print type(sortie)
    return sortie
while 1:
    print(rotatif(raw_input(u"\nSaisissez une phrase : ")))
```

<http://inforef.be/swi/download/apprendre_python.pdf>
M. Swinnen, Apprendre à programmer avec Python
le petit exercice ROT13 posté précedemment m'a pris pas mal de temps à
cause de problèmes de conversions de mode string en mode unicode et
vice-versa.
M. Swinnen en a donné une explication très claire, que je vous recommande:
chapitre 'Le point sur les chaînes de caractères'
M. Swinnen ne connait pas OSP manifestement.

<http://hawaiicowboy.free.fr/info.html>
WHAT ARE YOU ? by Stéphane Degoutin, Marika Dermineur and Gwenola Wagon, november 2005.
<http://whatareyou.net>
Ce projet me fait penser à un 100000 milliard d'associations de modes

<https://fr.flossmanuals.net/initiation-a-python>
Cédric Gémy, FLOSS manuals francophone

<https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_V%C3%A9ronis>
Linguiste et spécialiste du Web

<http://difdepo.hypotheses.org/bibliographie>
blog d'un groupe de chercheurs dédié à l'oulipo, ils ont entre autres
établis une bibliographie complète (ou presque)

<http://archive.olats.org/livresetudes/basiques/litteraturenumerique/basiquesLN.php>
Les basiques: La Littérature numérique

<http://www.formules.net/index.html>
La revue Formules qui se consacre à la littérature contrainte: on
peut pas tout consulter  mais on a accès aux éditoriaux et et aux
sommaires.

<https://readingclub.fr/info>
Project of online reading and writing by Annie Abrahams and Emmanuel Guez

<https://writingmachines.org>
website of Emmanuel Guez

<http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam#Origine_du_terme_.C2.AB_spam_.C2.BB>
<https://www.google.be/search?q=spam+can&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb&gws_rd=cr&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=fr&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=bIMUUufQBrTy7Ab2zoDoBg&biw=1276&bih=635&sei=b4MUUoLANMqqhQfk2IDQCw>
Origine du terme spam

<http://www.wintermute.org/brendan/?p=exquisite-code>
Project by Brendan Howell who did performance at Chercher le Texte in Paris. 
In his work he's looking at different ways of reading and writing using 
Python and a collection of texts. A book that came out of a 
collective writing session was part of the exhibition' Book with an 
attitude' during LGRU Porto.

<http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern>
Just came across this, from the university of Antwerp, not too far from Brussels
yahoo, there is an imap spam reader given as an example here:
<http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern-web>

<http://taalschrift.org/editie/99/schrijf-en-u-wordt-ontmaskerd>
I read this interview with Walter Daelemans who is leading the department of CLIPS
I translated some interesting fragments on their work:
*What if they analyze the content of the article with their software?*
Walter Daelemans: 'Then we can state with certainty that you're older 
than 25 and for 80% certainty you're a man, with a university degree. We 
can state things about your personality: whether you're extravert or 
intravert, think rationally or rather intuitively. If you would chat, we 
can also define your dialect or regional accent...'
*What do you need in order to make these "predictions"?*
Walter Daelemans: 'We need at least 5000 words of text by you. ... We 
look for two kinds of information: objective information, like facts; 
and subjective, like opinions. Next, we see how language has been used 
for this: choice of words, construction of sentences... Stylometrie.'
*Do women write that differently than men?
(An: hold your horses ;--))
Walter Daelemans: 'Women use more personal pronouns, more verbs, more 
relational words than men. Men use more articles and nouns, more 
prepositions and more words that describe quantity. It doesn't matter 
whether they write fiction or non-fiction, the differences remain the 
same. Male writers will use more a non-fictional descriptive style. 
Women who write scientific texts, will do that - against all 
expectations - rather in fictional style.Mannelijke schrijvers zullen 
bovendien meer in de non-fictionele, beschrijvende stijl schrijven.'
*And in order to detect lies on fora, chatrooms:*
'A man who wants to make believe he's a teenager or a child, will use too 
much 'fashionable' words of that generation, and not in the right context...
someone who writes a false review (of a hotel he's never been to), will 
put too much irrelevant comments.'
Comment Algolit: Indeed we should look at this non-naively.

<http://www.internetactu.net/2012/03/08/lift12-ecrire-avec-les-machines/>
« La fin est un problème avec les histoires numériques », s’amuse James Bridle. « Comment les terminer ? J’ai grandi dans Geocities qui a été tout simplement effacé. Je ne sais pas comment on termine une histoire. Je ne sais pas comment terminer Shipadrift. Je fais des projets sans en connaître la fin, mais ils sont souvent plus intéressants après avoir été fait », sourit Bridle. « L’important est surtout de comprendre comment les personnes apprécient leurs propres histoires personnelles dans cet espace codé, dans ce monde diffus. » 

<http://www.christian-faure.net/2012/01/31/le-devenir-algorithmique-4-les-jeux-decriture/>

### 2014

<http://p-dpa.net/>
Post-Digital Publishing Archive
The aim of P-DPA is to systematically collect, organize and keep trace of experiences in the fields of art and design that explore the 
relationships between publishing and digital technology. The archive acts as a space in which the collected projects are confronted and juxtaposed in order to highlight relevant paths, mutual themes, common perspectives, interrelations, but also oppositions and idiosyncrasies.

<http://seminaire.sens-public.org/>
Really good program here. 

<http://www.jeudepaume.org/index.php?page=article&idArt=1887>
Recording of Conference by Stéphanie Vilayphiou at Jeu de Paume, with Alessandro Ludovico.
I really enjoyed your comment on how you had to 'mask' your script, so Google Books would not identify it as the same 'visitor' each time you would launch a request in Google Books. Changing between Firefox, Chrome, Safari & also changing between locations.
How curious that requests from Belgium are much quicker blocked than requests from France.

<http://eliterature.org/2014/01/call-for-1st-time-e-lit-artists-21514/>
yearly applications since

<http://docs.behat.org/quick_intro.html>
<https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki>
Anyone used behat (php) or cucumber (ruby)?
With BDD, you write human-readable stories that describe the behavior of your application. These stories can then be auto-tested against your application. For example, imagine you've been hired to build the famous ls UNIX command. A stakeholder may say to you:
Feature: ls
In order to see the directory structure as a UNIX user I need to be able to list the current directory's contents
Scenario: List 2 files in a directory
Given I am in a directory "test"
And I have a file named "foo"
And I have a file named "bar"
When I run "ls"
Then I should get:
"""
bar
foo
"""
In this tutorial, we'll show you how Behat can execute this simple story as a test that verifies that the ls commands works as described.

<http://haccslab.com/?p=62>
Mark Marino and others do a kind of online working group where they do "close reading" of the software used in works in electronic literature. It's mostly academics but the conversations can be interesting.  Today is the last day to apply to participate.

<http://pixelmonkey.org/pub/nlp-training/>
These are slides from a presentation but they do walk through some nice examples using NLTK with lots of code.

<http://www.bldgblog.com>
Articles read from Beyond the Beyond (Sterling's blog, category : web semantics)
*The Writer as Meme Machine by Kenneth Goldsmith*
<http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/10/the-writer-as-meme-machine-how-has-the-internet-altered-poetry.html>
"Quality is beside the point--this type of content is about the quantity of language that surrounds us, and about how difficult it is to render meaning from such excesses. In the past decade, writers have been culling the Internet for material, making books that are more focussed on collecting than on reading. These ways of writing--word processing, databasing, recycling, appropriating, intentionally plagiarizing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, to name just a few--have traditionally been considered outside the scope of literary practice."
*From one language to another : from translation to conversion : *
<https://www.technologyreview.com/2013/09/25/15029/how-google-converted-language-translation-into-a-problem-of-vector-space-mathematics/>
"This is an important clue. The new trick is to represent an entire language using the relationship between its words. The set of all the relationships, the so-called "language space", can be thought of as a set of vectors that each point from one word to another. And in recent years, linguists have discovered that it is possible to handle these vectors mathematically. For example, the operation 'king' - 'man' + 'woman' results in a vector that is similar to 'queen'.It turns out that different languages share many similarities in this vector space. That means the process of converting one language into another is equivalent to finding the transformation that converts one vector space into the other.This turns the problem of translation from one of linguistics into one of mathematics.
*Words Matter vs Clinical English Written Standard*
<http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/11/such-dfw-very-orwell-so-doge-wow/>
"This is the weird thing the Internet has done to language: Standard Written English -- or, at least, its most fundamentalist form, Clinical Standard Written English -- has actually *become incorrect* in most online contexts. Before he wrote 1984, George Orwell wrote a famous essay called "Politics and the English Language <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Language>," which decried: In our time it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing. Where it is not true, it will generally be found that the writer is some kind of rebel, expressing his private opinions and not a "party line." Orthodoxy, of whatever color, seems to demand a lifeless, imitative style."
*Tree of Codes*
<https://2005.visual-editions.com/our-books/tree-of-codes>
code façon cut-up by Jonathan Safran Foer published by Visual Editions (printed in Belgium)

<http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2014/02/18/baboon-fart-story-is-now-an-actual-thing/>
Also on a goldsmithian tip, today's amazon self-publishing scandal / prank

<http://p-dpa.tumblr.com/post/67140118292/il-nulla-luca-fadda-2013-a-free-350>
Related to the previous link, there's the story of this Italian guy who published an empty book and it got to the top of Amazon chart.
The "empty" book (it actually had a blurb) was set free to download for 4 days and it was downloaded 250 times. 
The author says: "the fact that with 250 copies you get to the top of the chart, should make you think. Maybe the algorithm that generates the chart doesn't work properly and maybe it should be the case to reprogram it in base of the reviews."
My guess is that the Italian store is still so fragmented and small, that is not that hard to get to the top. Also interesting to notice that the author doesn't have any consciousness of the microhistory from which the book derives: no mentions of the pletora of other (actual) empty books produced and a -somewhat pathetic- use of the project as an excuse to moralize on the ethics of self-publishing and literature: <<the books isfully ironic, fully stupid, fully simple. So simple that anyone could have
made it. I didn't want to show off my intelligence with this little thing,
and who wanted to understand this, is simply superficial.>>

In brief, a missed opportunity.

Projects by Juan Julián Merelo who presented his git-novel at the latest FOSDEM. He's head of the Office for Free Software at the
University of Granada. The blog of his Dpt: <http://geneura.wordpress.com/>
<http://jj.github.io/hoborg>
Novel developed in GitHub, open source, and published on Amazon.
<http://jj.github.io/HashSlash>
Other novel on its way (in Spanish)
<https://github.com/JJ/PiBook>
Script to create a book composed of the 9999 first digits of Pi. Translated from the original in Spanish by Psicobyte specially for FOSDEM'14.

<https://weise7.org/book/>
Unlike other books, this book acts as an Internet independent wireless server, running from a tiny, custom designed computer inside the book.

<https://bibliotecha.info/>
this project, made during an hackaton by PZI students, made me think of it.

Martin Howse
<http://www.1010.co.uk/org/>
His Black Death and Dark Interpreter noise-synthesizers are inspired / based on literature.

Kathrin Günther
<http://katier.org/>
Star Shots and Spirit Photography

<http://www.occultomagazine.com/>

<http://www.jimcampbell.tv/portfolio/miscellaneous_references/>
Formula for computer art

<http://litteraturing.net/>
2014, nouvelle année, nouveaux archivages, et nouveaux essais...

<http://lourdesiglesias.net/susurros.php>
Working with a friend writer, Lourdes Iglesias, we made an experiment to browse her new novel by concordances.
It is inspired by the concordance function of the nltk toolkit: <http://www.nltk.org/book/ch01.html>
(look for concordance in the page, there is no direct link), source is here: <http://www.nltk.org/_modules/nltk/text.html>
For this, I am trying to translate the original function in a regular expression to make it more portable.

<http://scifi2scifab.media.mit.edu/2014/01/07/2h2k-lawyer-artificial-labor-and-ubiquitous-interactive-machine-learning>
artifical labour & ubiquitous interactive machine learning and part of the website have been finished re-using LOREM GIBSON, a Lorem Ipsum generator based on Gibson's texts : )

<https://github.blog/2012-06-12-github-data-challenge-winners/>
<https://github.com/blog/1476-get-up-to-speed-with-pulse>
Yes, it's really crazy how Github goes into turning itself as a CV manager.
Git and Github even more is really a pharmakon: it's useful to read the process of a project but it can turn easily into a control tool. When we present OSP's website, which visualizes our Git commits, we try to address this question by focusing on the process than on the fact that clients can control our work. But indeed, because we know it's public, we try to avoid anger messages targeted to our clients ;) we turn them into private jokes.
Therefore, I did like this one: "Percentage of Commit Messages with Expressions of Anger" on <https://github.com/blog/1162-github-data-challenge-winners>. Commit messages, because we *commit*, can really become an outlet, an "exutoire" in French ("outlet" doesn't seem strong enough)

<http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/330_Paper.pdf>
"In this paper, we present the newly established Danish speech corpus PiTu. The corpus consists of recordings of 28 native Danish talkers (14 female and 14 male) each reproducing (i) a series of nonsense syllables, and (ii) a set of authentic natural language sentences. The speech corpus is tailored for investigating the relationship between early stages of the speech perceptual process and later stages. We present our considerations involved in preparing the experimental set-up, producing the anechoic recordings, compiling the data, and exploring the materials in linguistic research. We report on a small pilot experiment demonstrating how PiTu and
similar speech corpora can be used in studies of prosody as a function of semantic content. The experiment addresses the issue of whether the governing principles of Danish prosody assignment is mainly talker-specific or mainly content-typical (under the specific experimental conditions). The corpus is available at <http://amtoolbox.sourceforge.net/pitu/> "

<https://www.ny-web.be/artikels/interview-kenneth-goldsmith/>
"I think of both foreign human languages and computer languages in the same way: both are tools which provide me with the opportunity to create  new texts, albeit in different ways. For example, I am currently making recordings of me reading the works of Wittgenstein in German, a language I neither read nor understand. I so horribly mispronounce the words that most German speakers who hear my work don't recognize it as German. So what is it, then? It's these sorts of questions that fascinate me."
"Computer languages are another story. The Canadian poet Christian Bök has predicted that in the future, the poet will have to learn Perl <http://www.perl.org/> in order to write poetry. It's a good point and brings to mind one of the reasons for the sorry state of electronic poetry. It's hard enough for a poet to write a good poem. Now she must also be a programmer and a designer. These are great demands and I only know of one poet who can write poems, program and design equally well. The financial hurdles of getting design or programming help are insurmountable for most poets, hence the pitiful state of the art today."

<http://www.spacecaviar.net/>
Led by former Domus editor Joseph Grima, Space Caviar has developed a real-time publishing algorithm called Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) a piece of software that will automatically create written articles from live speech and social media streams during a three-day programme of talks held in the Nike <http://www.nike.com/>Aero-static Dome at Palazzo Clerici this week.
Source: <http://www.dezeen.com/2014/04/08/space-caviar-fomo-algorithmic-journalism-machine-free-newspaper-milan-2014/>

<http://jonaslund.biz/works/the-fear-of-missing-out/>
do you know if this has any relation to the Jonas Lund project "The Fear of Missing Out"? It also used generative algos to generate mash-up descriptions of installation artworks.
I'm pretty sure there is no connection. Also on algopop, Jonas' piece was mentioned: <http://algopop.tumblr.com/post/82086104487/fomo-algorithmic-journalism-machine-via-dezeen>

The Pale King, David Foster Wallace
"I went through a sudden period where I couldn't read. I mean that I could actually read - my mother knew that I could read from when we'd read children's books together. But for almost two years at Machesney, instead of reading something I'd count the words in it, as though reading was the same as just counting the words. For example, 'Here came Old Yeller, to save me from the Hogs' would equate to ten words which I could count off from one to ten instead of its being a sentence that made you love Old Yeller in the book even more [...] I still sometimes lapse into counting words, or rather usually the counting goes on when I'm reading or talking, as a sort of background noise or unconscious process, a little like breathing."

<http://www.shakespeare-navigators.com>
POLONIUS
What do you read, my lord?
HAMLET
Words, words, words.
POLONIUS
What is the matter, my lord?
HAMLET
Between who?
POLONIUS
I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.

<http://bengrosser.com/projects/scaremail/scaremail-generator/>
Based on text of Fahrenheit 501
code includes markov chain :-)

<http://p-dpa.tumblr.com/post/89460001882/almanacco-bompiani-1962-le-applicazioni-dei>
Almanacco Bompiani 1962 - Le applicazioni dei calcolatori elettronici alle scienze morali e alla letteratura, 1962, pp. 87-188.
Arguably the first Italian survey of the employment of computers in the field of literature and moral science. Including, among many others, Giovanni Anceschi, Nanni Balestrini, Silvio Ceccato, Umberto Eco, Karl Gerstner, Bruno Munari, Diter Rot.

This tomb holds Diaphantus. Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed that he should be a boy for the sixth part of his life, when a twelfth was added, his cheeks acquired a beard; He kindled for him the light of marriage after a seventh, and in the fifth year after his marriage He granted him a son. Alas! late-begotten and miserable child, when he had reached the measure of half his father's life, the child grave took him. After consoling his grief by this science of numbers for four years, he reached the end of his life.(A riddle written by a friend of Diophantus of Alexandria, author of the Arithmetica, 3rd century. Found in The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold, Wiley Publishing.)

<http://www.in-vacua.com/cgi-bin/tapemark.pl>
an online generator of the algorithmic poem by Balestrini
Source code: <http://www.in-vacua.com/cgi-bin/tapemark.pl> 
Tape Mark 1 is a poem by Nanni Balestrini. It dates from 1961. It was exhibited in Cybernetic Serendipity, ICA Gallery, 1968.
It is sometimes credited as the first computer poem. It is a significant early example of computer poetry.
This version has been programmed using the description in the Cybernetic Serendipity catalogue.
The original code is unavailable. The present program produces verses similar to the English translations that are still available.
There is the occasional oddity in syntax, but according to the catalogue of Cybernetic Serendipity there were, post-computer,
'a few editorial changes in points of grammar and punctuation'. It is stated in the catalogue that ten elements were selected. However, on my count the number is nine (see below). Then this raw text was divided up into six lines of metrical units. The program emulates this approximately.
This is an example verse from the Cybernetic Serendipity catalogue. I have indicated where phrases start and finish:
Hair between lips, || they all return
to their roots || in the blinding fireball ||
I envision their return || until he moves his fingers
slowly, || and although things flourish ||
takes on the well known mushroom shape || endeavouring
to grasp || while the multitude of things come into being.
Here's another:
In the blinding fireball || I envisage
their return || when it reaches the stratosphere ||
while the multitude of things come into being || head pressed
on shoulder || thirty times brighter than the sun ||
they all return to their roots || hair
between lips || takes on the well-known mushroom shape.
Balestrini sources:
Lao Tzé's Tao Te Ching: 'While the multitude of things comes into being, I envisage their return. Although things flourish, they all return to their roots.'
Michihito Hachiya's Hiroshima Diary: 'The blinding fireball expands rapidly, thirty times brighter than the sun. When it reaches the
stratosphere, the summit of the cloud takes on the well-known mushroom shape.'
Paul Goldwin's The Mystery of the Elevator: 'head pressed on shoulder, hair between lips, lay motionless without speaking, till he moved his fingers slowly, trying to grasp.'

<https://eld2015.wordpress.com/>
the following seminar might be of interest:
'Digital Literary Studies' is an international conference exploring methods, tools, objects and digital practices in the field of literary studies. The digitization of artifacts and literary practices, the adoption of computational methods for aggregating, editing and analyzing texts as well as the development of collaborative forms of research and teaching through networking and communication platforms are three dimensions of the ongoing relocation of literature and literary studies in the digital medium. The aim of this two-day conference is to contribute to the mapping of material practices and interpretative processes of literary studies in a changing media ecology.

<http://kavan.land/>
algoliterary creation by Catherine, Stéphanie, Alex

<https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2014>
NaNoGenMo 2014 or National Novel Generation Month: Spend the month of November writing code that generates a novel of 50k+ words.
The only rule is that you share at least one novel and also your source code at the end.

### 2015

<http://rwet.decontextualize.com/pdfs/witz71.pdf>
"Grep: A Grammar" by Loss Pequeno Glazier
His grep works: <http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/glazier/dp/appendices.html>
It's not clear if he reorganizes his sentences after the grep, because his texts can be read extraordinarily well.

<http://rwet.decontextualize.com>
Allison Parrish teaches electronic writing, word games, etc. in the U.S. 
Her website has a lot of resources with courses on Unix, Python, Markov chains...

<http://lav.io/2014/05/transform-any-text-into-a-patent-application/>
A nice work from one of her students: Transform The Communist Manifesto or a Kafka novel into a patent.

<https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2014/10/18/rappeurs-vocabulaire_n_6003668.html?utm_hp_ref=musique>
comparing rap vocabulary: rappeurs français vs wordlists

<http://chairnerd.seatgeek.com/fuzzywuzzy-fuzzy-string-matching-in-python/>
nice explanations

<https://github.com/ocropus/ocropy>
All that is solid, like books, melts into typos

<https://code.google.com/p/python-tesseract/>
<https://github.com/madmaze/pytesseract>
<https://code.google.com/p/pytesser/>
How does it differ from the python libraries using tesseract? Is it using other machine learning algorithms?

Rob Fitterman & Vanessa Place "Notes on Conceptualisms"
The idea is to read this from our (Jara Rocha) shared southern present european engendered sensibilities, to see if that makes any sense of scratch in the political, ethical and aesthetical issues proposed by this branch of the new conceptualist poetics (a brief intro by Craig Dworkin and some selected works can be found in UBUweb: http://www.ubu.com/concept/ -- and Kenneth Goldsmith srives on it along Uncreative Writing as well)

<http://median.newmediacaucus.org/art-infrastructures-information/seeing-the-sort-the-aesthetic-and-industrial-defense-of-the-algorithm/>
algolit-related material on the issue of representing the algorithm ; you'll see romanian folk dancers choreographing a Quick-Sorting task, you'll read a solid article, going from educational attempts and commercial depictions of algo, to claims for a "Countervisuality to Algorithms".
Quicksort dance: <https://vimeo.com/114911241>

<http://applymagicsauce.com/>
This demo predicts your psycho-demographic profile from digital footprints of your behaviour. It reveals how you might be perceived by others online and provides academically robust insights on your personality, intelligence, leadership, life satisfaction and more. We think every citizen has a right to understand their data, but most big tech companies would rather not reveal what is predictable (or profitable) about you. Fortunately, you can now download your social media data and analyse it directly using our tool.

<https://zenodo.org/record/18166?ln=en#.VW1vKrzhlC1>
Designed by Loraine Further, written by Simon Worthington
The Book Liberation Manifesto is an exploration of publishing outside of current corporate constraints and beyond the confines of book piracy. We believe that knowledge should be in free circulation to benefit humankind, which means an equitable and vibrant economy to support publishing, instead of the prevailing capitalist hand-me-down system of Sisyphean economic sustainability. Readers and books have been forced into pirate libraries, while sales channels have been monopolised by the big Internet giants which exact extortionate fees from publishers. We have three proposals. First, publications should be free-at-the-point-of-reading under a variety of open intellectual property regimes. Second, they should become fully digital in order to facilitate ready reuse, distribution, algorithmic and computational use. Finally, Open Source software for publishing should be treated as public infrastructure, with sustained research and investment. The result of such robust infrastructures will mean lower costs for manufacturing and faster publishing lifecycles, so that publishers and publics will be more readily able to afford to invent new futures. For more information on the Hybrid Publishing Consortium see http://consortium.io/

<http://www.joshmillard.com/markov/calvin/>
Calvin and Markov digests Calvin and Hobbes strips and generates new comics using Markov chains, perl, and Imagemagick.

<http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-ai-creates-interactive-fiction-by-reading-other-peoples-stories>
AI creates interactive fiction. Sheherazade is coming to life

<unfold.thevolumeproject.com>
/A Library Where The Books Have Melted Into One Another and The Titles 
Have Faded Away./
A curatorial experimentation on the digital folder to trigger anti-authorial agency, movement of thoughts, untimely collaborations.
Re-generated by seven guest curators every two months, Unfold is a library hosting shifting constellations of artistic content, books, 
found objects and software, both newly commissioned and already existing. Like all libraries, Unfold is a space of copies, copies of 
copies, appropriations, heterogeneity and contradictions.
The first Unfold is based on <http://thevolumeproject.com/> and follows a contrapuntist arrangement for coded texts, found images,
field recordings, photocopies, notes and videos; time-lapsed and displaced. With contributions by Mounira Al Solh, Stefanie Baumann, Andrew Beccone, Walter Benjamin, Nadia Bou Ali, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Aldis Ellersdottir, Per Hattner, Sami Khatib, Marcell Mars, RYBN.ORG, Walid Sadek (& more).

A few quick things that might be interesting:

<http://spacy.io/>
Another python NLP library. Documentation is nice.  The graphing and syntax parsing features look pretty good.  I think it could be cool for more poetic works than Pattern or NLTK.  Also the POS tagger for english is supposed to be very good.

The Corpus of American Soap Operas 
<http://corpus.byu.edu/soap/> 
I have no ideas but this just seems like a gold mine for algo-literarians who have any sense of irony.

DDAI - Digitale Demenz (Artificial Intelligence) 
<http://ddai.de> 
I made a sort of artistic catalog for a gallery show on the topic of AI in popular culture.  The site is constantly re-generated mostly using markov chains to munge the text. I also used it as an opportunity to curate some of my favorite music, scientists, kooks and skepticism.

<http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/>
A textual game online

<https://github.com/ryankiros/neural-storyteller>
Neural storytelling with Python.
neural-storyteller is a recurrent neural network that generates little stories about images. This repository contains code for generating stories with your own images, as well as instructions for training new models.
<https://medium.com/@samim/generating-stories-about-images-d163ba41e4ed>
A review about it.

<http://socialmediacollective.org/reading-lists/critical-algorithm-studies/>
Critical algorithm studies: a readinglist.
Comes from Microsoft...  Matthew Fuller is on.

<https://www.renpy.org/>
Ren'Py is a visual novel engine – used by thousands of creators from around the world – that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell interactive stories that run on computers and mobile devices. These can be both visual novels and life simulation games. The easy to learn script language allows anyone to efficiently write large visual novels, while its Python scripting is enough for complex      simulation games. Ren'Py is open source and free for commercial use.

<https://www.wired.com/2015/11/google-open-sources-its-artificial-intelligence-engine/>
Google open sourced Tensorflow.

### 2016

<https://www.idpureshop.ch/web/catalogue.aspx?cat=39>
Dadabot, publication by Nicolas Nova: Essay about the hybridization of cultural forms (music, visual arts, literature) produced by digital technologies.
<http://www.makery.info/2016/01/19/nicolas-nova-voit-du-dada-dans-la-data/>
Interview with Nicolas Nova

<https://constantvzw.org/site/SICV-Scandinavian-Institute-of-Computational-Vandalism.html>
<http://sicv.activearchives.org/logbook/>
Nicolas Malevé & Michael Murtaugh at Transmediale, Berlin.

<http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.03313>
<https://github.com/valentin012/conspeech>
Political Speech Generation
Another interesting article+code on text generation (using topic modeling).

<https://keepnotes.com/stanford-university/machine-learning>
For those who like to learn more on neural networks and how to implement Tensorflow.

<http://nlp.lsi.upc.edu/freeling/node/1>
<http://www.talp.upc.edu/>
FreeLing is a C++ library providing language analysis functionalities (morphological analysis, named entity detection, PoS-tagging, parsing, Word Sense Disambiguation, Semantic Role Labelling, etc.) for a variety of languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Russian, Catalan, Galician, Croatian, Slovene, among others).
These tools are developed and maintained at TALP Research Center, in Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. They also benefit from many external contributions from a wide community.

<http://passeurdesciences.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/04/04/peut-on-reconnaitre-un-ecrivain-a-sa-ponctuation/>
Can a writer be recognised according to the punctuation?
<https://neuroecology.wordpress.com/2016/02/15/punctuation-in-novels-2/>
Original English post.
<https://medium.com/@neuroecology/punctuation-in-novels-8f316d542ec4>
The red & blue  drawings are interesting too.

<http://allpriorart.com/>
Algorithmically generated prior art.
Exhausting patent space.

<http://robotcomix.com/comix/Catalogue/mobile/>
Comics generation by Tony Veale.
The scripts generate a lot of ugly male characters, but some of the questions/thoughts are interesting.
<https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/creative-computation-and-what-if-machine.html>
The What If Machine, a research project on the automatic generation of ideas for fiction.
"You get a lot of computers that generate stuff that they themselves don't understand,™ said Dr Veale, who is based at University College Dublin, Ireland. "They generate poetry, but if the computer doesn't know what the poem means, then the computer is not being creative.™
Tony Veale (same person who launched comics generator above) & Leading Research Group: <http://afflatus.ucd.ie/>.
He leads <https://prosecco-network.eu/>, a research network on Computational Creativity.

<http://bookworm.benschmidt.org/posts/2015-10-30-rejecting-the-gender-binary.html>
Rejecting the gender binary in language.
"What this method actually lets us do is hyperfixate on gender as a category of textual analysis. A world without gender from this 
standpoint is interesting because of what it tells us about gender and its strength, not because it lets us tap into some world of 
unrestrainedly polymorphous perversity but because it highlights how the many different roles that gender itself plays."

<http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/06/an-ai-wrote-this-movie-and-its-strangely-moving/>
Algorithmic SF
If it can play Go, it can also write movies?

<http://www.i-could-have-written-that.info/>
Project by Manetta Berends.
i-could-have-written-that* is a practice based research project about text based machine learning, questioning the readerly nature of the techniques and proposing to represent them as writing machines. The project is built with ie. nltk, Pattern, python, cgi, jinja, git.

<https://www.coursera.org/course/nlp>
Free online course Natural Language Processing from Stanford University, by the authors of the famous book

Algorithmic surrealism
<http://objectdreams.tumblr.com/post/139317698609/here-is-my-predictive-text-rewrite-of-the-elements>
Other results at <http://objectdreams.tumblr.com/>
<http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/22/12260406/object-dreams-tumblr-writing>
Source code at <https://github.com/jbrew>
About the funniest algorithmic writing I came across so far.

<https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602025/how-vector-space-mathematics-reveals-the-hidden-sexism-in-language/>
As neural networks tease apart the structure of language, they are finding a hidden gender bias that nobody knew was there.

<http://www.degeneratestate.org/posts/2016/Apr/20/heavy-metal-and-natural-language-processing-part-1/>
A very funny way to understand what NLP is about.

<https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/11/23/1942237/googles-ai-translation-tool-creates-its-own-secret-language>
Google's AI Translation Tool Creates Its Own Secret Language  

Some resources on Deep Learning and neural networks
* Software for Deep Learning and neural networks

• **Tensorflow (Google)**: <https://www.tensorflow.org/>
• a lot of tutorials, including on language processing: <https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.11/tutorials/index.html>
• Free course on Deep Learning (Tensorflow): <https://keepnotes.com/stanford-university/machine-learning>
• Some links to how it is used: <https://research.googleblog.com/2016/11/celebrating-tensorflows-first-year.html>
• **Theano**: <http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/index.html />
• <http://deeplearning.net/tutorial/intro.html>
• **other**: overview November 2015 <http://venturebeat.com/2015/11/14/deep-learning-frameworks/?imm_mid=0dd6b0&cmp=em-data-na-na-newsltr_20151209>
• **Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit** <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/cognitive-toolkit/>

* Free online books

• Deep Learning - Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville: <http://www.deeplearningbook.org/>
• Neural Networks and Deep Learning -  Michael Nielsen <http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com>

* Blogs and articles

• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks <http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/>
• Embed, encode, attend, predict: The new deep learning formula for state-of-the-art NLP models: <https://explosion.ai/blog/deep-learning-formula-nlp?imm_mid=0eaadb&cmp=em-data-na-na-newsltr_20161116>
• Deep Visual-Semantic Alignments for Generating Image Descriptions: <http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/deepimagesent/>

* Simulation tools

• Simulation of NN in browser: <http://playground.tensorflow.org>

<https://www.algolit.net/neural_networks_tensorflow/neuralnetworks1_word2vec_film.mov>
We looked into word2vec word embeddings, using tensorflow. This is a film of the process by Olivier Perriquet and a (half) 
commented script in the same folder.

### 2017

<http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/densecap/>
DenseCap: Fully Convolutional Localization Networks for Dense Captioning

<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/23/wikipedia-bot-editing-war-study>
Study reveals bot-on-bot editing wars raging on Wikipedia's pages
<http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0171774>
Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia
And chatbots talking to each other is becoming a new trend on Youtube:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzlbyTZsQY>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_tvm6Eoa3g>

<https://arstechnica.com/features/2017/04/the-secret-lives-of-google-raters/>
Article on the raters which Google uses to improve its search algorithm.
"Large scale data mining practices like Google Search are not fully automated, but need an almost invisible army of annotators doing the low-level, Mechanical Turk-alike work of rating and building the training and test sets. It is mostly on the labour conflicts, but it tells a lot of the future of low-level jobs." 
It points also to Googles annotating manual: <https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//insidesearch/howsearchworks/assets/searchqualityevaluatorguidelines.pdf>. 
Boring to read, but very interesting to analyse from the viewpoint of how Google becomes our guide through the information sphere and how hidden opinions and assumptions influence that.

<http://emotions.periscopic.com/inauguration/>
Emotional arcs of the past ten U.S. presidential inaugural addresses.
It could be an idea to start creating types of birds wearing these feathers...

<http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/AudioToObama/>
A neural network approach to Obama ventriloquism: Synthesizing Obama: Learning Lip Sync from Audio:
To be clear, this is not about text generation, but video generation matching the audio.  
But in theory, and if enough computer power and training data is available, it should be possible to do some text generation, then feed
it into some audio generation tool like <https://lyrebird.ai/> and next use this video generation approach. And then everyone can create their fake news ...

<https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2017/07/20/emergent-poetry-and-google-translate/>
Unlike the author of this blog post, I think this is interesting both philosophically and artistically.

<https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/apr/28/ebook-every-reader-obliged-to-edit-a-universe-explodes-tea-uglow>
Make it your hone: the ebook that you are forced to edit as you read. On each page of A Universe Explodes by Tea Uglow, owners are required to add one word and remove two – which amounts to an odd reading experience.

### 2018

<http://aiweirdness.com/post/171451900302/do-neural-nets-dream-of-electric-sheep>
A post on fooling a CNN into seeing sheep where they are not, or failing to spot them because they are the wrong color or in the wrong place.

<https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/robotics/artificial-intelligence/hacking-the-brain-with-adversarial-images>
article describing a research into adversarial images fooling both neural nets and humans, with the caveat that the images
were shown 'Malevé'-style: "Subjects sat in front of a computer screen and were shown an image from a specific group for between 60 and 70 milliseconds ... The short amount of time that the image was shown mitigated the difference between how CNNs perceive the world and how humans do."
Closing with cliché positive and negative future scenarios (both horrible in their own way ?): 
"...machine learning techniques could potentially be used to subtly alter things like pictures or videos in a way that could change our
perception of (and reaction to) them..."
"These techniques could also be used in positive ways, of course, and the researchers do suggest a few, like using image perturbations to improve saliency, or attentiveness, when performing tasks like air traffic control or examination of radiology images..."

<http://aiweirdness.com/post/159132506927/in-which-a-neural-network-learns-to-tell>
Janelle Shane, who does this blog also has an excellent one on knock-knock jokes:"The neural network can be trained to write recipes, invent Pokemon, and invent superhero names. But can it learn to tell a joke?"

<https://github.com/mikekestemont/ghent1516>
<https://github.com/mikekestemont/lot2016>
Nice 'writer' courses for Python - compared to CodeAcademy, all examples use text, no numbers :-)

<https://ulbstic.github.io/workshop/team/>
MaSTIC proposes a two-year academic Master in Information Science with a strong focus on both practice and theory. The Master gives access to various professions such as data scientist, functional analyst, document & records manager and projects within the domain of digital humanities.

<https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/can-algorithms-be-funny-veterans-of-clickhole-and-the-new-yorker-team-up-to-find-out/2018/04/04/48b23e1e-36b0-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html>
AlgoLit goes Mainstream?
"At its funniest, this 21st century form of techno-Dadaism is a sublime collaboration ­between humans and machines, merging the creativity of one with the robotic uncanniness of the other into an original comic voice. Welcome to the world of Botnik Studios, a digital company that specializes in artificial intelligence-assisted interactive comedy."
<https://botnik.org/>
Botnik is a machine entertainment company run by comedy writers. We use computers to remix text

<https://archive.org/details/fifteenthousand00kleigoog>
A corpus of "Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases" that every writing machine should know

<http://www.galaxykate.com/pdfs/galaxykate-zine-opulentai.pdf>
Nicely made 'Opulent AI manifesto'

<https://twitter.com/GalaxyKate>
Kate Compton on Twitter, geologic choreographer, dance breeder, crafter of twitching generative bots.

<https://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau3.3.003>
An anthropology of the Bayesian reasoning, "we are our sieves" by Paul Kockelman.

<https://monoskop.org/log/?p=20147>
Adrian Mackenzie: Machine Learners: Archaeology of a Data Practice (2017)

<https://thegradient.pub/nlp-imagenet/>
Computer Vision meets NLP in many ways, how a dataset establishes a paradigm.

<https://carolinesinders.com/feminist-data-set/>
Feminist dataset by Caroline Sinders

<https://pudding.cool/2017/05/song-repetition/>
Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?