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Hugo Ball at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, 1916

photographer unknown

Moses

My patch is called Moses, it composes haiku poetry, or rather, recomposes the lines of poetry that are available to it in response to an image.

The images used are all sourced from the internet and have no known photographer. In selecting these images I am interested in the idea of a deficient human element. Found images can sometimes feel personal to us and the narrative elements reveal themselves quickly. At the same time, an everyday or observed feeling reminds us that we can detach ourselves from them and their subjects quite readily.

The text being used is sourced from Japanese haiku poetry, translated into English. The poets include Buson (1715-1783), Basho (1644-1694), and Buson (1715-1783) and other major poets to make use of the Haiku.

Traditionally, the Haiku presents a contrast or a 'cutting' aspect, including the juxtaposiition of text and image.

File:Moses.pd

File:Haiku.SacredTexts.1.txt

documentation

Comical Dutch script

Flip-flapping across the sky

In this windy nest

_______________________________

On the death of his child

And dry my dreaming but still ...

Insatiable fleas

_______________________________

Women planting rice

Drawn up from my frozen well ...

Weird hollow echo

_______________________________

Issa stepchild bird

Dew evaporates and all our world is dew ...

Black cloudbank broken

_______________________________

But their ancient song

Flip-flapping across the sky

Wild geese write a line

_______________________________

The songs of froglings

Our old scarecrow topples down

In silent midnight

_______________________________

White they meet

Scatters in the night ... now see

Black cloudbank broken

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 Hugo Ball at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, 1916
 photographer unknown
-"I took this course because I liked the name of it. The idea of data, flowing, unobstructed, to my own designs. It was a nice idea for me. I didn't even bother to think of what that data might be ..."
+==Moses==
-==My Project==
+My patch is called Moses, it composes haiku poetry, or rather, recomposes the lines of poetry that are available to it in response to an image.
-===background===
+The images used are all sourced from the internet and have no known photographer. In selecting these images I am interested in the idea of a deficient human element. Found images can sometimes feel personal to us and the narrative elements reveal themselves quickly. At the same time, an everyday or observed feeling reminds us that we can detach ourselves from them and their subjects quite readily.
-Immediately after learning the basics of how Pure Data works I was slightly worried because it seemed that the things which I was interested in, were not the things that Pure Data was typically used for. I shared these thoughts with someone, saying:
+The text being used is sourced from Japanese haiku poetry, translated into English. The poets include Buson (1715-1783), Basho (1644-1694), and Buson (1715-1783) and other major poets to make use of the Haiku.
-"I just don't think I'm using Pure Data in the right way,"
+Traditionally, the Haiku presents a contrast or a 'cutting' aspect, including the juxtaposiition of text and image.
-to which they said:
+[[File:Moses.pd]]
-"There is no right way to use it ... it doesn't even care what it's being used for ... how can it know? Pure Data can be used for anything."
+[[File:Haiku.SacredTexts.1.txt]]
-This was reassuring for me.
+== documentation ==
-From the very beginning I wanted to use PD to perform some kind of human function, to reveal some form of judgement or thought process which would speak about its own inability to do so. And so I wanted to create some kind of patch that would interest itself in the nature of computer programming, while also displaying some level of critical self awareness.
+[[File:1407 girl024 med.jpg]]
-===the image===
+Comical Dutch script
-I decided to pursue the idea of a dadaist art review. I was thinking about the ways in which the Dadaists used the idea of automatic and chance-based occurances in order to remove or at least diffuse their own artistic control and intention over an artwork.
+Flip-flapping across the sky
-This led me to the idea that images could be an interesting starting point, and that I could use PD to perform some kind of human (albeit dadaist) function and that this 'performance' would vary in accordance with the image used.
+In this windy nest
+_______________________________
-== Results ==
 [[File:Student woodworking class.jpg]]
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 Insatiable fleas
+_______________________________
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 Weird hollow echo
+_______________________________
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 Black cloudbank broken
+_______________________________
 [[File:Maori.jpg]]
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 Wild geese write a line
+_______________________________
+[[File:Portraitofachild.jpg]]
+The songs of froglings
+Our old scarecrow topples down
+In silent midnight
+_______________________________
+[[File:Girl 1943.jpg]]
+White they meet
+Scatters in the night ... now see
+Black cloudbank broken