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exploring (semantic) space with (literal) robots (2015) - allison parrish

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Wednesday March 7th at 7pm in NYC!

Hard to Read presents its second New York City event, celebrating the past, present, and future of women and the Internet in conjunction with the release of Claire L. Evans new book Broad Band: The Untold Story Of The Women Who Made The Internet https://clairelevans.com/ Readings, screenings and perfomances by: Claire Evans Jacky Connolly Alexandra Marzella Sougwen Chung Allison Parrish Mimi Onuoha McKenzie Wark Music by: Voice Training (Commend/RVNG) McNally Jackson Books will have copies of Broad Band as well as related titles on-site for sale and signing. Bridget Donahue gallery 3rd floor Free

"Experimental Creative Writing with the Vectorized Word" by Allison Parrish

I’ve been a bit busy (more on that in future posts) but I had to stop and watch this talk by Allison Parrish about using word vectors for creative writing.

It’s a good introduction to both word vectors and some things you can do with them. Colors! Distributional hypothesis! Visualizing word vectors, which is a really neat way to learn about them!

The overall theme of the talk is about treating the written language as smooth spaces rather than discrete words, so you can do things like apply a blur to a paragraph. The analogy of a theremin for text is both a striking image and a call for a different kind of relationship with text, drawing on ideas from Amiri Baraka.

It’s especially worth watching for the poetry reading. The audible performance highlights how sound and the emotion are an essential part of language, yet tend to have less attention paid to it in some parts of the generative space.