die.txt

Corby & Baily & Mackenzie

die.txt , 2005

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Support for this project was kindly provided by the ARHC.

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Description

die.txt is a bio-engineered text editor. As the user types, individual
words spawn outgrowths of alternative meanings and definitions. These
metonyms are sucked from Wordnet, a lexical reference system
developed by Princeton University.

Keywords

genres
- database art
- digital graphics
subjects
- Art and Science
  - databases
  - dynamical systems
  - scientific images
- Media and Communication
  - Internet
  - language

Technology & Material

Software

Using a metaphor derived from medical research into skin-cancer
simulations, the letter forms are generated by 'cellular growth', each
character having a particular cell-division encoding. The sentences of
newly created metonyms grow 'cancerously' from cells in the original
text.

Exhibitions & Events

How we Became Metadata

2010

Bibliography

Ludovico, Alessandro. »New Zealand Report.« Neural.it 32 (Spring 2009).
Corby, Tom. »Landscape of Feeling, Arenas of Action: Information Visualization as Art Practice.« Leonardo 41, no. 5 (October 2008): 460-467.
Corby, Tom and Gavin Baily. »Extra-Ordinary Practices.« In Extra-Ordinary Practices: A Retrospective of British Media Art, , 53-64. Dresden: 2006.
Baumgärtel, Tilman. »Media Online.« In Art Meets Media: Adventures in Perception, , 138ff. Tokyo: NTT Publishing Co., 2005.
Corby, Tom, ed. Network Art: Practices and Positions. London: Routledge, 1990.

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