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Hugo Ball at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, 1916

photographer unknown

background

I wanted to use Pure Data 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 self awareness.

I decided to pursue the idea of a dadaist rearrangement of text based on images. 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. This led me to the idea that images could be an interesting starting point to perform and compose and thereby create the illusion of some form of personality or discernmen.

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.

The Haiku often presents a contrast or a 'cutting' aspect, including the juxtaposiition of text and image. This is a key aspect of my use of the two, and allowing a pure data patch to perform a simple and traditional act.

how does it work?

Moses reads the RGB levels in an image by using the 'pix mean color' object. These levels are 'unpacked' and channeled into three different but identical sub-patches. Here, the levels filter through an number of 'moses' objects that result in the incoming value aligning with one of sixteen possible numbers. These numbers are outputed from each of the three identical sub-patches into another sub-patch. This sub-patch uses a 'textfile' object. The three incoming numbers dictate which lines from the textfile are to be used. These lines of text are extratced from the file and printed into the dialogue window.

documentation

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

Wild geese write a line

Flip-flapping across the sky

But their ancient song

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 Hugo Ball at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, 1916
 photographer unknown
-==My Project==
+==background==
-===background===
-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.
-===the image===
+I wanted to use Pure Data 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 self awareness.
-I decided to pursue the idea of a dadaist rearrangement of text based on images. 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. 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 in 'reading' the images and using them to compose text in some way; the idea being that this 'reading' would vary in accordance with the image being used and thereby create the illusion of personality or discernment on the part of the patch.
+I decided to pursue the idea of a dadaist rearrangement of text based on images. 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. This led me to the idea that images could be an interesting starting point to perform and compose and thereby create the illusion of some form of personality or discernmen.
 ==Moses==
-===what does Moses do?===
+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.
-Moses 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 idea===
+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.
-Obviously there are two variables in the patch which guide it, conceptually: imagery and text.
+The Haiku often presents a contrast or a 'cutting' aspect, including the juxtaposiition of text and image. This is a key aspect of my use of the two, and allowing a pure data patch to perform a simple and traditional act.
-''The imgages'' being used are all located on the internet. Furthermore, they are located on the basis that they are the work of an 'unknown photographer'. In selecting these images I am interested in the idea of a deficient human element in the image. Photography is essentially the act of a machine and the direction in which photography is heading is increasingly removing the significance of the human as an operator of image capturing devices. This is something I am interested in and I felt it was interesting grounds for my pure data patch to explore.
+==how does it work?==
-''The text'' being used is also drawn from the internet. It is Japanese haiku poetry, translated into English, from some of the most significant poets to make use of the Haiku. I was interested in using this text sourse, specifically, for two reasons. Firstly, the Haiku has always been a thing of contrast. Traditionally, Haiku poetry has a 'cutting' aspects whereby two
-===how does Moses work?===
 Moses reads the RGB levels in an image by using the 'pix mean color' object. These levels are 'unpacked' and channeled into three different but identical sub-patches. Here, the levels filter through an number of 'moses' objects that result in the incoming value aligning with one of sixteen possible numbers. These numbers are outputed from each of the three identical sub-patches into another sub-patch. This sub-patch uses a 'textfile' object. The three incoming numbers dictate which lines from the textfile are to be used. These lines of text are extratced from the file and printed into the dialogue window.
+== documentation ==
-The
-== Results ==
 [[File:Student woodworking class.jpg]]
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 [[File:Maori.jpg]]
-But their ancient song
+Wild geese write a line
 Flip-flapping across the sky
-Wild geese write a line
+But their ancient song