- 1964 - Roy Scott
- London
- Made connections between art & cybernetics
- Frank Popper
- Defined the distinction between interacting and participating
- Participation = involvement in both a contemplative sense and a behavioral sense
- Also, a relationship between a spectator and an already existing open-ended work
- Interaction refers to comprehensive involvement; two-way interaction between work & spectator
- Also, a 2-way interplay between an individual & AI
- Culture can be defined as the sum of all the learned behaviours that exist in a given locality
- Art exists between the behaviors of the artist & the spectator--it exists neither by itself nor for itself
- I think that's crap
- Cybernetics - the study of control and communication, information, perception, translation, logic, & chance
Chapter 11 - A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate
- 1965 - Ted Nelson
- Hypertext: a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not convieniently be presented or represented on paper.”
- ”Chunk Style hypertext" refers to static links which permit a user to jump from page to page
Chapter 12 - Six Selections by the Oulipo
- Raymond Queneau
- Yours for the Telling
- ie. "choose your own ending"
- “Un Conte a votre facon” refers to the application of simple algorithmic techniques to narrative
- Used as the structural model for chose-your-own-adventure books
- Paul Fournel
- Computer and Writer
- Potential literature analyzes & synthesizes limits
- Concept taken from current mathematics as well as from older writing techniques
- Lipogram, palindrome, et al.
- 1983 - One Hundred Million Poems: 10 interchangeable lines of a sonnet.
- Italo Calvino
- Computers may be used to do more than spit out virtually infinite variations based on set of initial materials
- ie. Taking a very large space of possible stories and narrowing them down until you end it only one
- Clinamen is a deviation or error in the system
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