Group Project 1
For this project, our group chose to create our own writing system using emojis for the sentence “The web is a foam of ever-popping bubbles, ever-changing shop windows.”
Our language system will be constructed out of clay tablets with etchings in them, where the emoji is drawn. They will likely be unable to be drawn with infinitesimal detail as carving things out of stone or clay limits that.
What we translated it into:
🧑💻🕸️
↙️ ↘️
🫧 👚🪟👕
🗯️🔃💭 ☑️ 🔃 ✖️
🪡 🛍️
What the individual pictograms mean:
🫧.= Foam, bubbles, soap, cleanliness. Defined by: Autumn
🔃= Clockwise vertical arrows, ongoing passage of time, cyclical, continual. Defined by: Sammy
🕸️ = web, the internet as a whole, a container of all content. Defined by: Joel
🪟= Window – represents a window, pairs with shopping bag to symbolize shop windows. Defined by: Oliver
🛍️ = Shop: shopping bag. Defined by: Gissell
🪡 = popping bubbles, delete what used to exist – Angelina
Group Project 4 (Electronic Literature Collection)
volume 1
https://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/wittig__the_fall_of_the_site_of_marsha/Fall/index.html
This site was very interesting. It has a corrupted and eerie feeling to it. It begins as a happy feeling site and slowly becomes more and more haunted and seems to be hijacked by something or someone. We see the progression of the site being a more of a safe space to the author, to more of a grave site.
volume 2
https://collection.eliterature.org/2/works/gillespie_letter_to_linus.html
This seems to be an interactive cube structured both by the short lines on the six faces of the cube and the six boldface words that also form a kind of poetic refrain: cut, shut, blow, break, take, lock.
volume 3
https://collection.eliterature.org/3/work.html?work=scaremail
This site seems to generate text in the form of an email of pure nonsense using words that are usually violent in some extent, e.g. ricin, kill, poison, etc. This site is fun to use and seems to be for fun purposes, as it writes in a way that most humans could not think to. After reading the description, it seems that its meant to disrupt NSA surveillance. Extending Google’s Gmail, the work adds to every new email’s signature an algorithmically generated narrative containing a collection of probable NSA search terms. This “story” acts as a trap for NSA programs like PRISM and XKeyscore, forcing them to look at nonsense. Each email’s story is unique in an attempt to avoid automated filtering by NSA search systems.
volume 4
https://collection.eliterature.org/4/minicontos-coloridos
This site seems to create a story based off the color combination you input. The color you input determines the mood/theme of the story. The stories themselves are sometimes tragic and sometimes ironic. Due to the extreme conciseness and absence of title, it is up to the reader to look for the outcome between the lines, and should also use color to give completeness to the meaning of the stories.