Christopher Funkhouser



Shy nag (a code opera): ACT II

The resultant text became English via Google Translate, and was subsequently processed and filtered through Word spell-check. Since the code is lengthy, over fifty pages, the output was large.

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Sentences / part two

Click on the image above to launch. The second episode in a 3 part sequence titled ‘Sentences / part two’ combines my interests in animation, improvised music and algorithmic writing in experimental forms (i.e., mesostics in this production). Text presented …

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Picture Becomes Text, Becomes Writing: Software as Interlocutor

What is required in any type of spell-check writing is an input text, which can be anything prepared in a language a word processing program (e.g., Microsoft Word) understands. Though many approaches are possible, generally speaking an author proceeds by removing from the input text anything that is not an alphabetic character, including spaces, so as to have a block of letters to work with.

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Exit Ducky?

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Enter Cordite Scholarly

Cordite Scholarly is a new section of Cordite Poetry Review devoted to peer-reviewed research on Australian and international poetry and poetics. Essays published in Cordite Scholarly are reviewed by at least two members of Cordite’s Academic Advisory Board (or see …

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