computational poetry, literature and visual art
May 2008
Web poem that changes with the weather in Ljubljana
Sometime around the year 1990, on the left embankment of the river Ljubljanica, just before Tromostovje one could read the following graffitti: Sonček je in ti si skuštrana (The sun is shining and your hair is in a mess). Later on I learned that the author of this sentance was the poetess and painter Mateja Sever. Her graffitti inspired this poem. I have changes in so much that I have substituted the word Sun by - a few hours ol - feed from the Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia and its data on the weather in Ljubljana.
So, if you are reading the poem in Ljubljana it will describe the same weather as you can see through the window.
English version of the poem takes weather from the BBC Weather Centre, Observations for Ljubljana.
December 2007 — January 2008
Firefox add-on · poetry · visual · intervention
Computational on-line visual poem, Firefox add-on.
Please note that this project include chinese symbols. If you see □□□, ??? or anything similar instead of chinese symbols your operating sistem does not include the apropriate fonts. Instaling Chinese fonts will cure this problem.
Poem for 莫海伦 is add-on (small piece of software that adds new functionality to browser). It adds toolbar to browser. Poem for 莫海伦 can be triggered on any web page. If so the page will slowly, element by element fade to white until whole page is completely white. Process might take up to 2 or 3 minutes per page.
Poem for 莫海伦 is computational visual poem contemplating transience of things and relationships.
March / September 2007
Firefox add-on · visual · intervention
Visual interventions into the web pages. Firefox extension.
The image of any give Web page (or the visible part of the Web page if it is bigger than the computer screen) is understood as a matrix that reproduces itself. The size, height, and width of the reproduction are transformed depending on the matrix. The reproduction is placed in a selected section of the matrix and becomes part of it. The process repeats several times. The result is an unrepeatable visual structure that is based on manipulations of the particular Web page.
February/May 2007
Firefox add-on · visual poetry · interactive
On-line visual poem — an extension, i.e. an additional toolbar for the Firefox Internet browser. (updated, v 2.0)
Animated 3D alphabet is added to web pages. Letters respond to the typing. You can also move the letters across the web page.
15 November - 1 December 2006
Physical computing.
Hands od the clock stend still if the sorounding environment is quitet. When the sound appears the hands move quicker the louder the environmental sound is.
Technique: a microphone detects sounds in the clock environment and sends data to the software (a pach in Pure Data). Software - throue the MIDI interface - controls the electromotor that moves the hands of the clock. I also used some screws and pice of a adhesive tape. Project was made in the frame of the workshop and exhibition Reality Log/Environmental Scan, led by Stefan Doepner/F18 Institute.
September 2006
Firefox add-on · visual poetry · interactive
On-line visual poem — an extension, i.e. an additional toolbar for the Firefox Internet browser (first version).
Animated 3D alphabet is added to web pages. Letters respond to the typing.
winter 2004 / summer 2005
Changer is an extension, i.e. an additional toolbar for the Firefox Internet browser, which adds a series of dysfunctionalities. Changer enables text and graphic interventions of web pages through the introduction, repositioning, changing, deleting and any possible combination of the four.
winter 2004 / spring 2005
Ampled poetry, artist book (entitled 'Napis nad mestom' - 'Text above the city', in Slovene). Book contains two made up identities, a poetes Mojca Pelcar Šarf and author of the foreword, dr. Jerneja Ericsson and a collection of sampled poetry. Poema are made of combined samples from the history and the present of Slovene poetry.
Co-author: Sunčan Patrick Stone. Book was selected at call for authors book from the Ceneter and Gallery P74 and published by P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art.
In Slovene only.
summer 2004 / spring 2005
net art · language expretion · generative · proverb
('Europroverb', in Slovene) Evropregovor - europroverb (part of the portal Evrokultura) is a generative and combinatory work of language expression. Europroverbs (there are 1.553.760 possible europroverbs) are created by the algorithm which combines a corpus of found-in-the-media euro-words (words that begin with euro-) with a small corpus of old Slovene proverbs.
Accessible also in the archive page of the work on jaka.org.
November 2004
net art · language expretion · generative · interactive
'Ascii Kosovel: Kosovel: Sampled, Type a Portret, Biography Portret', in Slovene. Three works of e-poetry dedicated to Srečko Kosovel, a Slovene poet (1904 - 1926). Created for the portal kosovel.net which was active during November 2004 and May 2006, now an archive of the works is awailble at jaka.org.
[Permanent address of Ascii Kosovel: Kosovel: vzorčen, Natipkaj portret, Biografski portret]
October 2003
Retype te content of any webpae: it's not only what is written. It's also where it's written and who wrote it.
March 2003
Responsive computer poem. [Context of the poem: I participated at demonstration agains war in Iraq. In couple of days the war began.] Difference between sent (typed) message and its (visual) response.
May 2002
Collection of randomly found URL addresses in public space, excluding internet. From three travels, one longer in Turkey and two short ones, in Zagreb (hr) and Koper (si).
September 1999
Interactive Audio-Visual Typing Machine for Love Letters ...
[Permanent address of Type! - Interactive Audio-Visual Typing Machine for Love Letters]
August 1999
- Interactive Audio-Visual Typing Machine for Love Letters (first version)
1998, 1999
...
[Permanent address of Generator - Interactive Audio-Visual Poem Generator]
1998
1997
interactive · poetry · Croatian
Interactive poetry. In Croatian language only. Requirements: Netscape 3+, at least 800x600 pixel screen.
June / August 1997
interactive · poem · Slovene
Interactive poem (and a 'gallery' of poems co-writen by the 'users'). Work is not awailable any more but a version of it is containd in Interactivalia (under a title 'Sense Nodes Lost'). '[Špelo] v svoji sobi zebe' is in slovene language only.
[Permanent address of [Špelo] v svoji sobi zebe ([Špela] is in the Room, Cold)]
Poem for 莫海伦
(2007/2008, computational on-line visual poem)
Razorganizator · Disorganiser
(2007, visual intervention)
Črke · Letters · 字母 2.0
(2007, on-line visual poem)
And your hair is in a mess
(2008, computational online poem)
Retypescape
(2003, interactive language based on-line intervention)
Poem for Echelon
(2001, generative visual poem)
Typescape.2
(2001, interactive visual poetry)
Interaktivalija / Interactivalia
(1997, interactive poetry)
Napis nad mestom
[Inscription Over the City]
(2004/2005, sampled poetry, in Slovene)
54.000 besed
[54.000 words]
(1994, poetry and short stories, in Slovene)
Last update: 4th June 2008. First created 1996. At jaka.org since July 2001. Jaka.org is hosted by Ljudmila.