Author: tmemmott
Rhizomes 32: Meme Culture, Alienation Capital, and Gestic Play
Posted by tmemmott in Blog, on June 2, 2017The Rhizomes issue that I co-edited with Davin Heckman is now available online. http://rhizomes.net/issue32/index.html The issue was developed through an UnderAcademy College seminar and includes contributions from myself and Davin Heckman, Claire Donato, Sergio Figueiredo, Jeremy Hight, Jeff T. Johnson, Kelly Lydick, Mark Marino, Craig Saper, Orchid Tierney, and Erik Zepka. As Davin says in the introduction […]
Dérivepedia
Posted by tmemmott in Blog, Media Work, on June 21, 2016
In New River Journal Spring 2016 Dérivepedia is a combinatory and recylopedic text generator that recombines sentence fragments from 400 Wikipedia entries to generate specious entries for subjects ranging from Tadpoles And The History Of Weather Satellites to Pliny The Elder: Constructing Ambiguous Witch Trials; from Jimi Hendrix And The Psychology Of Cowpox to Ada […]
Generative Poetry Documentary
Posted by tmemmott in Blog, on May 2, 2016A lot of my work is generative — poetry generators, text compilers of sorts, works that remix the visual and/or the auditory… My work gets a nice little shout out from Nick Montfort toward the beginning of this short documentary on generative writing.
Label Design
Posted by tmemmott in Blog, Images & Design, on April 28, 2016
I’ve been working on some label designs for beer bottles lately. Here are a number of sample labels.
The Phlegmatic Radio Operator (google poems)
Posted by tmemmott in Blog, on February 26, 2016
Over the past few years or so I have been constructing poems based on Google searches. I really enjoy the method, and thus far have constructed nearly 200 sonnets based on everything from “HENRIK IBSEN AT BURNING MAN” and “IMPASSIVELY POSTED EMOTICONS” to “ŽIŽEK ATE ALL THE PEANUTS” and “RUBBER BOOTS MAKE FANTASTIC HOMES FOR UNICORNS. […]
N+Semble
Posted by tmemmott in Sounds, on February 21, 2016
Since about 2004 I have been creating music under the name N+Semble, producing four “albums” with more on the way. The tracks range from jazzy to pop, ensemble music to experimental.
Redacted Images
Posted by tmemmott in Blog, on January 30, 2016For the past number of years I have been creating location-based abstract images that I call “redacted images.” The process for creating these images involves reducing the color spectrum, and isolating tones — hence the name “redacted images.” The images are intended for large format digital prints… but, you can see the lower-res versions here: […]
Redacted Images: Location
Posted by tmemmott in Images & Design, on December 12, 2015
An ongoing collection of process oriented images.
OULIPOSCOPES
Posted by tmemmott in Blog, on October 17, 2015
Ouliposcopes are like horoscopes. Using horoscopes as seed text, an ouliposcope goes through various processes to arrive at something different. Here are some examples: METHOD PROCESS 1: astrological appropriation Appropriate three horoscopes from a single day – a general horoscope, a love horoscope, and a career horoscope. In addition, take the general horoscope for the week. All […]