J. R. Carpenter "Writing Coastlines Letters" (2013)
After Christopher Strachey "Loveletters" (1952)
Calling and Responding Passages,
You are my computational work, my algorithmic critique, my unhomed transmediation, my mediated method, my algorithmic speech act.
Yours physically,
J.R.C.
Generate another letter
- salutations1
North Atlantic
Writing and Erasing
Reading and Writing
Coming and Going
Performing
Shifting
Transmitting and Receiving
Calling and Responding
Ever Questioning
- salutations2
Briny Beaches
Coastlines
Communications Networks
Legible Lines
Locations in Memory
Narratives
Narrative Dialogues
Non-Places
Liminal Spaces
In-Between Spaces
Passages
Points of Departure
Lines of Flight
Topics
Topographies
Terrains
- adjectives
algorithmic
archival
cartographic
combinatory
conceptual
computational
computer-generated
critical
dialogic
digital
digital literary
electronic
electromagnetic
embodied
haunted
hybrid
interdisciplinary
iterative
literary
locative
Marxist
machinic
mediated
media archaeological
multi-modal
narrative
performative
performance writing
pragmatic
situationist
synthetic
shifting
uncanny
unhomed
variable
web-based
- nouns
aim
approach
argument
assemblage
bibliography
citation
conclusion
context
contribution
corpus
chapter
chapter outline
critique
dialectic
draft
essay
experiment
interest
intervention
iteration
letter
line of inquiry
method
objective
paragraphy
practice
research
reading
conference paper
mediation
performance
publication
question
quotation
speech act
test
text
transmission
translation
transmediation
transmutation
study
subject
thesis
title
utterance
version
work
writing
- adverbs
algorithmically
analytically
bodily
carefully
computationally
creatively
critically
curiously
digitally
diligently
eagerly
electronically
electromagnetically
impatiently
keenly
methodically
methodologically
necessarily
originally
performatively
physically
playfully
seriously
studiously
stylistically
systematically
sceptically
scholarly
systematically
technically
textually
- verbs
argues
charts
communicates
confuses
confounds
connects
considers
demonstrates
describes
engages with
erases
examines
explains
explores
generates
haunts
identifies
illustrates
listens for
locates
makes public
makes clear
maps
networks
outlines
performs
programmes
publishes
reads
re-reads
reiterates
researches
receives
resonates with
transmits
speaks
states
studies
suggests
thwarts
walks along
writes
re-writes
REFERENCES
http://www.gingerbeardman.com/loveletter/
https://github.com/gingerbeardman/loveletter
http://www.mosi.org.uk/about-us/news/mosi-writes-love-letter-to-ferranti-(1).aspx
http://grandtextauto.org/2005/08/01/christopher-strachey-first-digital-artist/
http://64.62.200.70/PERIODICAL/PDF/Encounter-1954oct/27-36/
http://gnoetrydaily.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/2-strachey-love-letters/
http://www.alpha60.de/art/love_letters/
http://www.alpha60.de/research/there_must_be_an_angel/DavidLink_MustBeAnAngel_2006.pdf
http://www.samplereality.com/2013/01/08/an-account-of-randomness-in-literary-computing/