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Hugo Ball at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, 1916 photographer unknown

My Project

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.

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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.

Moses

what does Moses do?

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

the idea

Obviously there are two variables in the patch which guide it, conceptually: imagery and text.

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.

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.

The

Results

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

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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 ..."
 ==My Project==
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 ===background===
-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:
+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 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.
+==Moses==
+===what does Moses do?===
-"I just don't think I'm using Pure Data in the right way,"
+Moses composes haiku poetry, or rather, recomposes the lines of poetry that are available to it in response to an image.
-to which they said:
+===the idea===
-"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."
+Obviously there are two variables in the patch which guide it, conceptually: imagery and text.
-This was reassuring for me.
+''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.
-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 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.
-===the image===
-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.
-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.
+The
 == Results ==