Wandering Through Taroko Gorge

James T. Burling

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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Statement

Wandering through Taroko Gorge is a remix of Nick Montfort's Taroko Gorge, a JavaScript poetry generator. Originating out of a class project in which we were asked to investigate and document how Montfort's creation functioned, this version adds components like hidden illuminations, music generated by the poem using the computer's built in cyclotron, and the ability to add to the poem on the fly. Each of these additions are designed to mimic our investigative process, and help those who have a similar project accomplish the same task of documentation more quickly.


Bio

James T. Burling is a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He works as a consultant at Designlab.

Metadata

Year: 2014

Language: English

Keywords: remix, generative, poetry, performance

Tech Details

Performance-based remix of web-based generator

Editorial Statement

James Burling's remix of Taroko Gorge builds awareness of the procedural mechanisms by allowing the reader to contribute new nouns for insertion within the work. The generated text is accompanied by the vibrating sounds of procedurally-generated audio, with a changing frequency and reader controls for manipulating content. The remix draws our attention to the possibilities of the underlying algorithm as a tool for investigating the nature of generated works.

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