Pokes.

Poke. (1)

you know what day it is,
0419 - 0420,
And I'm counting the stars, cause I wanna know how far you are.
This holiday is so damn illegal.

Spring in new york,
A pink sunset tonight...
finally joined the club.

I've got that summertime, summertime sadness,
Build a man a fire, and he's warm for a night. 
Set a man on fire, and he's warm forever.
that smolder look.

Caught with her hand in the Nutella jar,
Got tipsy after two flutes of champagne today. 
I failed so hard I won.
That's why I'm here.

Poke (2)

Tales of An Unaffordable Capital

Live well die young

the nightmares of stepping on stage and suddenly being obese have begun

Crying again

ughhhhhh

Wedding can wait. Dessert can’t

Forgot how much I appreciated this hallway until a revisit today... Really should start coming here more. The fastest way to get away from the present is to visit the old. 

Summer here we come

New & improved

Aggregating.....slowly

the nightmares of stepping on stage and suddenly being obese have begun

You can't control how people act, only how you react. So don't get upset over the things you can't control.

Beauty in Translation.

If flowers from branches left.

I, if you open a branch from the same Lotus 

If there is no meeting of the purity of the soil and yellow leaves 

I hate you do not know,

 the new spring in the heart of flowering cherry. 

Unwilling to become dead tree 

by bending in vain to maintain the space of wasted youth 

If the red flowers smell fragrant 

where red chicken is headed to shoulder the burden and all, 

does not exist 

I hope the shadow of my soul 

is willing to give you your heart, you know? 

I feel warm and cold,

 it have became in the spring of my world while yours is winter.

花若離枝隨蓮去　擱開已經無同時

葉若落土隨黃去　擱發已經無同位

恨你不知阮心意　為著新櫻等春天

不願青春空枉費　白白屈守變枯枝

紅花無香味　香花亦無紅豔時　一肩擔雞雙頭啼

望你知影阮心意　願將魂魄交給你

世間冷暖情為貴　寒冬亦會變春天

If the flowers from opening branches Suilian to put the same time has no 

If the soil with yellow leaves to put off the hair has no parity 

Nguyen hate you do not know the mind of the new spring cherry etc. 

Unwilling to bend in vain to keep youth wasted space becomes deadwood 

When no smell fragrant saffron nor Hongyan shoulder all the burdens of chicken-headed crow 

Hope you know shadow Nguyen soul willing to give your mind 

Winter cold and warm affection for your world has become in the spring

如果從開設分行隨蓮把同時花無 

如果黃葉土壤摘去頭髮無奇偶校驗 

阮恨你不知道的新的春天櫻花等的心 

不願白白地彎曲，以保持青春浪費的空間變得朽木 

當沒有氣味香濃藏紅花，也不紅岩肩膀雞鴉為首的全部負擔 

希望你知道影子阮靈魂願意給你的心 

冬天的寒冷和溫暖的感情，你的世界已經成為彈簧

If you open a branch from the same time with the lotus flower without 

If the yellow leaves soil pluck hair and no parity 

Nguyen hate you do not know the heart of a new springtime cherry blossoms, etc. 

Unwilling to bend in vain to keep the youth wasted space becomes deadwood 

When there is no smell fragrant saffron, nor Hongyan shoulder the full burden of chicken crow headed 

I hope you know that shadow Nguyen soul willing to give your heart 

Winter cold and warm feelings, your world has become a spring

如果從同時打開一個分支，蓮花無 

如果黃葉土壤採摘的頭髮，無奇偶校驗 

阮恨你不知道的新的春天櫻花盛開的心臟等 

不願白白地彎曲，以保持青春浪費的空間變得朽木 

當沒有氣味香濃藏紅花，也不紅岩肩膀雞鴉的全部負擔為首 

我希望你知道，影子阮靈魂願意給你的心臟 

冬天的寒冷和溫暖的感覺，你的世界已經成為一個春天

如果從同時打開一個分枝無蓮花

如果黃葉土壤採摘的頭髮無奇偶相遇

阮恨你不知道的新的春天櫻花盛開的心臟 

不願白白地彎曲，以保持青春浪費的空間變得朽木 

當沒有氣味香濃豔紅花，紅岩肩膀雞鴉的全部為首來負擔

我希望你知道，我靈魂的影子願意給你的心臟 

冬天的寒冷和溫暖的感覺，你的世界已經成為一個春天

If I open a branch from the same Lotus 

If the soil picking hair yellow leaves no parity encounter 

I hate you do not know the new spring cherry blossom heart 

Unwilling to bend in vain to keep the youth wasted space becomes deadwood 

When there is no smell fragrant red flowers, all of Red Rock chicken crow headed to shoulder the burden 

I hope you know, the shadow of my soul willing to give your heart 

Winter cold and warm feeling, your world has become a spring

If I open a branch from the same Lotus 

If the soil with yellow leaves have no purity encounter 

I hate you do not know the new spring with a cherry blossoming heart 

Unwilling to bend in vain to keep the youth wasted space becomes deadwood 

When there is the no smell fragrant red flowers, all of Red chicken headed to shoulder the burden 

I hope you know, the shadow of my soul willing to give you your heart 

Winter cold and warm feeling, your world has became my spring

私は、同じロータスから支店を開いた場合 

黄色の葉と土には純度の出会いがない場合 

私はあなたが桜の開花の心で新しい春を知らない嫌い 

若者無駄なスペースを維持するために無駄に曲げて不本意では枯れ木になる 

赤鶏がすべて重荷を肩に向かった臭い香りの赤い花が、存在しない場合には 

私はあなたの心を与えるために私の魂の影が喜んで、あなたが知っている願っています 

冬は寒さと暖かい感じ、あなたの世界は私の春になっています

Don't Go

http://stallionttazn.wix.com/dontgo

that is all I got to say.

Poke.

you know what day it is,
0419 - 0420,
And I'm counting the stars, cause I wanna know how far you are.
This holiday is so damn illegal.

Spring in new york,
A pink sunset tonight...
finally joined the club.

I've got that summertime, summertime sadness,
Build a man a fire, and he's warm for a night. 
Set a man on fire, and he's warm forever.
that smolder look.

Caught with her hand in the Nutella jar,
Got tipsy after two flutes of champagne today. 
I failed so hard I won.
That's why I'm here.

Night Moves by Stephanie Barber?

To me, It is interesting to see youtube comments out of place. On a book? That is a very different experience. I think to choose this piece music piece to work on is a good choice. It has some history, definitely came before youtube but it also has a good stream of supporters. You see emotion pour out on youtube about the past, about what people have been through. You see how music from the past is compared with music today. You see how this piece have its existence today, within games, pop culture. I remember hearing it in the TV show "how I met your mother" I would not have known this song as a foreigner in the states if not for the TV show. But you see the tracks it leaves through out history. Through the thirty plus years it existed. The impact it has on music, culture and people's life. It also captures the nature of us human beings. We like to compare, we debate who is the better musician and many of us, seem to like old things more than the new. You might also question, Hmmm, Who is the author here? Is it the one who made the song? Bob segar? or is it the one who uploaded the video? or is it "Jimmej955" who uploaded the video? Or is it Stephanie Barber who did the filtering? So manny people and things are involved in order for this work to exist.

Distant?

Why? Do we remember?

Why? Do we remember?

What is at stake?
What is lost?

Remember?
remember the blood we shed.
remember the bloody stream of history bleed.
remember the price we paid.

Why are we here, again.
Why are we shedding blood again.
Why are we withstanding history again.
Why are we paying the price again.

Is this wrong?
The occupation.
We need it.
Do we?
Call for it,
We need it.

What box?
A black box.
A box of feed,
for the communist beast.

Trade, what trade?
No, there is no trade.
There is no give and take.
There is give, and only give.
Just give.
Give, give,give.
That is how you sell a nation.

Unity?
Unity of the people?
What people?
What are we?
Do we know?
What's we?

Give us transparency.
Give us tranquility.
Give us honesty.

This is a poetic response to what is going on in taiwan. It all started on March 17th 2014 when a trade act was passed within 30 seconds. Within the next 26 hours, students gathered. They occupied  the legislative Yuan as a form of protest. A response and act against the process how the act is passed, it was not transparent nor was it righteous. They are also worried of the impact that it would bring to Taiwan. Most importantly, the Trade act is signed between Taiwan and Communist China, we are two countries with great disagreements on Taiwan's identity. We have also seen what China have done to people that did not follow their wishes. How would we be able to know, we are safe?

“Tech-TOC:Complex Temporalities and Contemporary Technogenesis”

In this chapter, Hayles focused a lot on the book/Narrative program TOC. From the description it seem like a interesting read that plays with the concept of time. The way that one captures time and moving with the narrative itself. They seem to be in fragments but slowly pieces up the story. TOC, which also stands for technotex as Hayles put it, which contains the complicated relation with time that also consists the large themes of the story. In the presentation of the program itself it seem to be in fragments that goes back and forth within the narration. It seem as a interesting interaction between the program it self and the reader/User that is looking through it. The book itself seem very interesting with the capability to evoke different feelings and situations as one move along through it. The main topic of it is a struggle that we face every day. The concept of time and how it seem like it could only move in one direction. Even in math and physics, there seem to only have proven way to move forward in time but not back in time. I really enjoyed the quote below. 

“humans construct time through measuring devices, but these measuring devices also construct humans through their regulation of temporal processes. The resulting human-technical hybridization in effect conflates spatialized time with temporal duration.”(116)

It is, that as we move day by day, we are aware of time in some sense. We lear n to live with it and grow with it. It integrates itself into our lives. Time is always has a unique play in life.

“virtuality a work that is more abstract than concretized and that consequently possesses a large reservoir of possibilities that may be actualized as the technological milieu progresses and as technical objects proliferate, exploring ways to achieve greater integration”(120)

Like the many works we discussed in class, most of them always seem like there is a lack in something. maybe the coding, maybe the way it is presented, maybe the way the art is executed. However, like what Hayles is saying here. I feel the same. They move us forward. move this art form forward. They may not reach the perfect realms of other form of art but it sure moved digital poetry into a new ground.

Technogenesis in Action: Telegraph Code Books and the Place of the Human

The chapter talks about code and its progression through history. Through this, one could observe how we crave technology to improve so that it could better serve our needs and purpose. It is interesting to see how the code system develops and call for more accuracy. It also shows how privileged it is to exits in a time of internet where messages and thought could be traveling so fast with out going through the trouble of encrypting, decoding coding and so forth. What I found most interesting is definitely Andrew Hallners' Scientific Dial. It is a big attempt and dream to call for the utopian code. A code where all could understand, but still it is private. that extends through all nations, language, and culture. Even thought the results of it was not successful but one could observe that early designers consideration of the user and try to come up with a solution that will cater to everyones needs. 

"compels him to inscribe, within the code book itself, the cultural and ideological worldview that he evidently regards as the right and true path for human happiness." (169)

How big can one dream? To have created a system that will bring true human happiness. Today, we have google translation, code protected email accounts. These seem to have in some way reached what was dreamed. One have to respect and astonish by the gold that was set up by Andrew Hallners. The promotional ideas of his was also intriguing. Although it eventually fell short of what it intended. But the idea itslef is worth thinking upon. 

Endemic Battle Collage by Geof Huth 1886～87

The work by Geof Huth is a play on words with the interaction that it creates with the screen. It has a hectic feeling to it. It does not have much sound but only a “beep”, “ticks” or noise that is commonly heard during everyday computer use of the early days. It is created in 1886 to 1887. This is a rather early time in the computer history but the work is still relatable today. The words very much relate to the image it created. For example, the running of the word rain does created the image or feel of rain as it scatter through the screen. What is special about this is that even though it is scattered along the screen one could still easily recognize the word that “rain”. Then as the word thread run vertically down the screen. the image of thread is created. The scatter of words on the screen then highlighted by selection is also a interesting experience where at first non recognition could be seen but through the highlights one could spot the words immediately. The whole work plays well with the eye and amazing at how so much could be read from it through a wrok created so early. It is just a black box within a computer screen, the creating pushes the boundaries to have a cohesive and powerful work within great constrains. 

in the white darkness by Reiner Strasser on January 2004

In the white darkness by Reiner Strasser looks into the mind of Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease patience. It recreates the feeling one get when they are loosing memory. Through the over lay of sounds of images one could grasp the feel of memory loss. Some images slowly fade out, some are a fragment of a larger image, some vibrates as one sees it. It creates an experience, a lost of time and space. They are all stringed together with lines between dots. This very much resembles a mind map which helps one to organize their thought but interestingly enough, it is about the process of loosing memory. There is some form of irony with the way the work is presented. It feels like one is trying to piece their thoughts together but in veil as they are all so fragmented, scattered and unrecognizable. The word "Déjà vu " pops out when you click on one of the dots. The idea of remembering but not really accessing, recognizing but not really knowing. I believe the images and the way it is handled very much carries it meaning. I do kind of hope that more could have been done with the boarders of the image. They might not necessarily have to be an rectangle image but could be rounded, fragmented, or deformed. The rectangular pictures does seem a little constrained. 

The lost reality in technology

           Technology is growing fast, so fast that at times, one lost its perception of reality. How long will it take for us to truly lost perception of whats real and whats now. We indulge our life in technology, It slowly sucks out our time and mind. Technology brings with it great profit, thus the improvement of it is non stop. but when will be the point that we totally get engulfed by technology. Technology connects us with people, but at the same time disconnects us with people. Facebook, how real is that, how many friends there are you actually talking to? “likes”, how real is that? or is that now simply a motion, something we do as we scroll? Would there be at one point, what we are interested in are no longer the “friends” we have in Facebook but rather we are interested in Facebook itself. Technology at times takes away our perception of what is real and what is not, at the end of the day, what is reality anyway? 

          After the industrial revolution, technology took a huge turn. Back then, everything seem to develop at a much slower pace than it is today. Two decades ago was just the start of cell phones, personal computers. A decade ago, cell phones got smaller, computers got faster, smaller lighter. Today, computers are combined with cars, Iphone with print recognition, color screen, touch scree, and even Siri, they all seem so normal. Maybe, we are not that far off from artificial intelligent. Siri seem so real, ably to respond to to commends and even able to have some form of chat with its users. As technology like this grow further, one would seem to be able to have stronger interactions and connections with machines, programs. How long will it take before one looses track of reality and start to dive themselves into things that are cyber?

          I would like to talk about two works, All roads by Jan Ingold and Bad Machine by Dan Shiovitz. Both of them are simple programing that leads the user to experience a program that is set up that leads the user to have a unique experience. The experience is interesting, mesmerizing, certain commands lead you to different places. This seem to be an early version of interaction programing. All roads provides a narrative interaction while bad machine provides a confusing interaction of codes, errors and reports. After all, both of them respond to the commands provided by the user, there seem to be a form of interaction but seem too primitive for one to actually have a strong relation and connection to it. There seem to be a lack of character and face to the program. However, the set up of the two program provides a very unique experience compared to actual video games. There is no music, sound or graphics but simply text. The text itself could already grasp some users to be very interested in this two programs. They are also both made 14 years ago, where technology have already took a huge leap compared to  back then. They are indeed very successful digital poetic, but for users to loose themselves within it, it still seem rather primitive to do so.

         Siri is an iPhone program that could complete certain tasks for you, but at the same time, it could respond to commands that are not really tasks but rather simply chat. It is a highly defined, yet easily accessible programing that seem to have some form of sassy character that is able to respond to its user. Things like this are fun yet, indulging. Even though this is still primitive but it already provided a strong character and face to it. The character and face are important elements, it creates connection and feeling that one could actually create relationship with this program, siri or Samantha, which is the female voice. In the movie “Her” , talks about a man falling in love with a program that is like siri. As impossible as it sounds, I think this is very possible. There are lonely man out there that would very much fall in love with a program. Just like how many people spend hours and days in virtual games. As extreme as this sound, it only sounded extreme because Siri is still primitive, once it gets even more character, even more face, one would start to accept the possibility of falling in love with a program.

A conversation with Siri

Siri's response to the movie "Her"

          Hatsune Miku is a very interesting case study to look into. It started off as a program developed by Crypton Future Media with yamaha’s vocaloid system that auto tones the voice of Saki Fujita. It is music program that allows people to make music with this auto toned voice. It pairs with Japanese and english. What is interesting is how it slowly grew into a celebrity. It start to materialized. The producers gave it a face, a 3D animated body and have a form of character even able to hold concerts. This in all itself is already bazar enough, but whats crazy about this is the amount of fans it generated and people seem to love her. It, not using her, is now holding live concerts, playing with live bands and with crazy crowds. As technology grows, people start to loose sense of certain reality."Works of art are received and valued on different planes. Two polar types stand out: with one, the accent is on the cult value; with the other, on the exhibition value of the work.” (Walter Benjamin) This would be on the cult value. Created by animation that created some form of character and value with its audience that allowed something like this to grow into an accepted pop culture. People start to believe it is real and exist in our world. it also carries the virtues that celebrities would not have. They would not marry, fall in love but does as what the programmers made them to do. Android seem to be the perfect celebrity in this sense, it is controllable and able to do what the people want. 

Live concert held by Hatsune Miku

          As many movie have explored the topic of human android, I would like to bring up “Be Right Back” from the second season of black mirror. The narrative is about a women's lost of husband thus he bought a android wight he face of her husband. She then installed the memories she have of her husband into this android. This doesn't not feel too far away. If now, people could be clanged onto games, Hatsune Miku it does not seem impossible that we lost track of whats reality and start to live in the virtual world. Would androids ever be like human? Thats is all another discussion and not important. What is important is that, how will we people, react to androids. From what we see today, we will very likely loose track of reality. 

          Reality is loss bits by bits as our technology grow bits by bits. On the subway, how many of us are actually looking up, looking at the scenery or whats around of. How many of us are actually just looking down on our phones, using facebook, whatsapp, and maybe whats around you is a real friend or person that you could interact with. Reality is lost. Maybe at the pace the world is not, we have to live in the virtual world just to get by. 

Carving in Possibilities by Deena Larsen, with sounds from Matt Hansen

Carving in Possibilities
by Deena Larsen, with sounds from Matt Hansen
Publicized in 2001

This is a very interesting piece. The idea of sculpting David through questioning phrases is a mesmerizing experience. This piece forces me to go back and replay it again and again since I was not able to go through it, It always comes to an end before I can go through all the lines. The sound effects and background music provides a strong build up. As one goes through the piece with their cursor, every movement pops out a new line and with the emergence of a new line a stone chipping sound goes with it. One will realize that as they move around, the face of david gets clearer and clearer.  This is a powerful piece and grasps ones attention as they are going through it. There are plenty questions and statements. some related to David some are not. It seem to calling for curiosity and self questioning as one goes through the process of carving david out of the blurry vision.

Chapter 2 of Hayles

I greatly enjoy the section on database by Hayles in chapter 2. It pointed to a strong fact that databases could provide a lot of new things. Lloyd does point out that although some elements would be lost in the process of transformation, from print to database but you also gain a lot through this process. It also seem like there is a lot more one artist could do if their work is in a database format. I enjoy the idea of restriction and freedom created by Kristen. The limitation or warning she provided with her image would not have been possible if they were in a print format. In the print format it will be wether you choose to read it or not, not having the option to choose to just read the text and not the image.

"The emphasis on databases in Digital Humanities projects shifts the emphasis from argumentation— a rhetorical form that historically has foregrounded context, crafted prose, logical relationships, and audience response— to data elements embedded in forms in which the structure and parameters embody significant implications."

Databases in Digital Humanities have changed the world of humanities. Everything seem to have more freedom, freedom to alter, freedom of interface, freedom of interaction, freedom of access, freedom of interpretation, etc. There seem to be a bigger world. Maybe there are cons to databases, but for sure it opened a great door for possibilities.

My body - A wunderkammer

My body - A wunderkammer is an interesting piece of work. It is a collaboration between three artist. It is thought up made bu Shelly Jackson where the breath was produced by John Wesley harding and the html programming is done by Ken Fricklas. The work itself reminded my of my work in sound poetics. The combination of the woodcut print and the sound of the breath creates a great image within ones imaginary image. yes, there is already a image of the mouth on the screen, drawn by Shelly Jackson of her own body parts. If the two, the sound and the image is separated, we will see the two very differently.

The image as the image, we might imagine how the mouth will actually look like in a photo realistic view/rendering, but we might have a hard time doing that. As for they sound it is powerful and clear and full of image but there is just not enough for one to create and actual image. However, with the two combined, one could actually feel the image coming to live and further more able to have a vivid and clear image of what might the photo realistic version look like. The combination of the two made it much greater than if they stand on its own. The text very much pairs with the image and helps to set the back ground of what one is viewing. This being a digital humanities, a html on the internet, makes use of technology at its best. If this is on paper, how would the sound ever be able t transpire. if one is looking at the image on a paper then have a recording player playing on the side, what kind of experience is that? surely an interesting one but one so excluded that maybe today, i would have no access of it.

How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogensis

The first chapter of the book laid very good grounds for what is coming next. The attempt of the author with other scholars to have a win win solution for both digital humanities and traditional humanities. It started off with laying the grounds low and made a strong point that digital humanities could not be neglected. Even though the example is set on the lower level of digital humanities, it is obvious to see that how the digital is now a huge part of our world. He then pointed out to text citation upon traditional humanities and shows that the percentage have grew fairly low. However, it is obvious to say that the point of the author is not to neglect or attack traditional humanities but rather attempting to figure out a solution for both to coexist on the same path and not on their own way. 

“Without abandoning print literacy, Comparative Media Studies enriches it through judicious comparison with other media, so that print is no longer the default mode into which one falls without much thought about alternatives but rather an informed choice made with full awareness of its possibilities and limitations” (9)

It is a great idea to set print as a medium rather than the “only way” or “old way” but providing a better ground of understanding about what it could do and not do.

“Another way is through the concept of technogenesis, the idea that humans and technics have coevolved together.” 

This set digital humanities to be something that is ought to happen and that print literacy is still a part of it. A part of the process. I also greatly enjoy the point where it is shown that now is a age of hyper read. We now have very low tolerance to boredom. Lastly, I love how he stated that his title is an open ended question. giving us much more freedom and understanding of where he is coming from.

Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1935)

"Works of art are received and valued on different planes. Two polar types stand out: with one, the accent is on the cult value; with the other, on the exhibition value of the work."

"With the different methods of technical reproduction of a work of art, its fitness for exhibition increased to such an extent that the quantitative shift between its two poles turned into a qualitative transformation of its nature. This is comparable to the situation of the work of art in prehistoric times when, by the absolute emphasis on its cult value, it was, first and foremost, an instrument of magic. Only later did it come to be recognized as a work of art. In the same way today, by the absolute emphasis on its exhibition value the work of art becomes a creation with entirely new functions, among which the one we are conscious of, the artistic function, later may be recognized as incidental.This much is certain: today photography and the film are the most serviceable exemplifications of this new function. "

This is a very interesting point. I dissected art into two points through history. It regard the first as cult, while the second as the purpose it carries. These two points pointed out the existence of those object/things before they are considered art. This is a very thoughtful way to express pre-art. I realize that even though the context was built more on western culture but it could very much lead itself into all context within history. The bronze sculpture/vessels, paintings, bamboo scrips all started with this two purpose before they are later considered as art. The two poles presented very well explains the reason for innovation as well. they both pretty much lands itself into this two categories.