51 posts tagged “video”

Phonologically driven generative poetry, explored as a response to the standard orthographically driven electronic poetry (and its precursors: Oulipo, Dada).

A genetic algorithm operates on "Poemes" made up of lines. The goal for this instance is to maximize the consonance and assonance of adjacent consonants and vowels, respectively. A new poem-population is created every 200 generations.

The visualization shows the movement of the poem over time in an approximate consonant space (blue) and vowel space (orange).

English language information drawn from the Moby Project. Built with Processing in Eclipse. For more information about classification of speech sounds, one place to start is the Wikipedia article on the International Phonetic Alphabet.

via Kyle McDonald
More of his work can be found here.

Re-Blogging Renee's post from a few days ago: a Ted Berrigan clip from Ron Mann's documentary, Poetry in Motion (1981).

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. With ample anecdotes and witty asides, Robinson points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize -- much less cultivate -- the talents of many brilliant people. "We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson says. The universality of his message is evidenced by its rampant popularity online. A typical review: "If you have not yet seen Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk, please stop whatever you're doing and watch it now."

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.

Malevich (Self Portrait, 1912)

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (February 23, 1878 – May 15, 1935) was a painter and art theoretician of Polish descent, pioneer of geometric abstract art and one of the most important members of the Russian avant-garde and Suprematist movement.

More from the Kazimir Wikipedia entry