2011년 5월 8일 일요일

a technical solution. Byung-kun Kim/ Supervisor. Professor David Hall

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Korean text: Talmud, famous quotes from films, famous quotes of great people in history, proverb, the Analects of Confucius
English text: the New Testament

Korean text: dissemble sentences by ‘dot’ and randomize the words
English text: dissemble sentences by ‘space’ and randomize the words

device : letters on head or tie?





Device is on speaker’s eyelevel LED dot matrix, that displays text + PDA, that randomize text then sent to dot matrix via Bluetooth

Conversation Interrupting so that boosting device

process

linear, obvious, conventional story
-> transfer->
unexpected text or visual that will interrupt the speaker to think and speak habitually.

stories we know well: read/heard over the ages through our lives
Talmud, famous quotes from films, famous quotes of great people in history, proverb, the Analects of Confucius, the New Testament

Project: Finding an irrational approach to lovers and people who are emotionally close

more inspiration

Luis Buñuel's Film 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'

We don't hear the phone conversation on these scenes. Instead there is unknown explosion and helicopter sound.

Sony walkman
experience a familiar situation as a totally different one.

naked lunch (William S. Burroughs)

If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido."
— William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch)

How to make stories?(non-linear story, cut-ups, Oblique Strategies...)

Attracting a distracted partner
I want be an interesting person who leads creative conversation but found making a conversation with people is somewhat painful as I am trapped in a same end when I talk.




Ways of creative (extended) thinking


Nonlinear narrative

Lateral Thinking
Edward de Bono's key concept is that logical, linear and critical thinking has limitations because it is based on argumentation. The traditional critical thinking processes of Plato, Aristotle and Socrates are reductive, designed to eliminate all but the truth. In many of de Bono's books, he calls for the more important need for creative thinking as a constructive way though that is deliberately designed. In de Bono's first book, Mechanism of Mind, he wrote of the importance to disrupt the dominant patterns preferred by human brain design to facilitate potential creative abilities. Many of de Bono's speculative models from that era about how the brain worked were vindicated by later brain research.
Lateral thinking, (literally, sideways thinking) uses various acts of provocation to incite ideas that are free from previously locked assumptions. The most well-known lateral thinking technique is the "random word." Invention of the word "PO" by de Bono, (meaning Provocative Operation, also related to POetry and hyPOthesis) gives notice that what will follow isn't meant as nonsense, but intended to relate to the subject at hand. Various provocative lateral thinking actions, (such as escape, new stimuli, reversal, etc.) were designed to deliberately shift perceptional assumptions for the purpose of generating observations and insights about the subject.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking


Oblique Strategies (subtitled over one hundred worthwhile dilemmas) is a set of published cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt first published in 1975, and is now in its fifth, open ended, edition. Prior to Oblique Strategies, Schmidt created "The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts" [1] in 1970, a similar collection of "55 sentences", in an edition of 100.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies
http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/OSintro.html


The cut-up technique is an aleatory literary technique in which a text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. Most commonly, cut-ups are used to offer a non-linear alternative to traditional reading and writing.[citation needed]
The concept can be traced to at least the Dadaists of the 1920s, but was popularized in the late 1950s and early 1960s by writer William S. Burroughs, and has since been used in a wide variety of contexts.
The cut-up and the closely associated fold-in are the two main techniques:
Cut-up is performed by taking a finished and fully linear text and cutting it in pieces with a few or single words on each piece. The resulting pieces are then rearranged into a new text.
Fold-in is the technique of taking two sheets of linear text (with the same linespacing), folding each sheet in half vertically and combining with the other, then reading across the resulting page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-up_technique http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealist_techniques


Antony Balch/William S. Burroughs collaboration film, 'The Cut-Ups' opened in London in 1967

"The cut-up is actually closer to the facts of perception than representational painting. Take a walk down a city street and put down what you have just seen on canvas. You have seen a person cut in two by a car, bits and pieces of street signs and advertisements, reflections from shop windows - a montage of fragments. Writing is still confined to the representational straitjacket of the novel ... consciousness is a cut up. Every time you walk down the street or look out of the window, your stream of consciousness is cut by random factors."
-William S. Burroughs

"What is clear and concise can't deal with reality, for what is real is to be surrounded by mystery." - James Joyce


Markov chain


Dissociated press is an algorithm for generating text based on another text. It is intended for transforming any text into potentially humorous garbage. The name is a play on "Associated Press".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociated_press


DadaDodo is a program that analyses texts for word probabilities, and then generates random sentences based on that. Sometimes these sentences are nonsense; but sometimes they cut right through to the heart of the matter, and reveal hidden meanings.
http://www.jwz.org/dadadodo/


Brian Gysin
He is best known for his (re)discovery of the cut-up technique,[2] used by his friend, the novelist William S. Burroughs. With the engineer Ian Sommerville he invented the Dreamachine, a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes closed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brion_Gysin


The dreamachine (or dream machine) is a stroboscopic flicker device that produces visual stimuli. Artist Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs's "systems adviser" Ian Sommerville created the dreamachine after reading William Grey Walter's book, The Living Brain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamachine

A mind machine (in some countries[which?] called a psychowalkman[citation needed]) uses pulsing rhythmic sound and/or flashing light to alter the brainwave frequency of the user.[1] Mind machines are said to induce deep states of relaxation, concentration, and in some cases altered states of consciousness[citation needed] that have been compared to those obtained from meditation and shamanic exploration.[citation needed]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_machine

Light and Sound Machines are non-drug tools that have been used over the past 57 years to improve Academic and Sports Performances. Most of the top hypnotists and hypnosis centers use Light and Sound Machines to assist their clients into a highly suggestive state. Expand your natural Alpha Waves - Theta waves using binaural beats for creative imagery and meditation.
The process applied by these machines is also known as brainwave synchronisation or entrainment.
http://www.mindmachine.com/index.php