Assignment: The digital cut-up. Create a notebook program that reads in two or more texts and stores portions of them in Python data structures. The program should create textual output that creatively rearranges the contents of the text. Use functions from the random module as appropriate. You must use lists as part of your procedure. Choose one text that you created with your program to present in class.
My theme for this semester has been to explore the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, touching and smelling. Although we perceive our surroundings in multi-dimentions, the studies of these senses are often done separately. This made me wonder how the studies might read if they were combined.
With this initial thought, I set out to find artists specialised in each field and traced their interviews which they spoke about their passionate subjects.
Light – James Turrell
Sound – R. Luke DuBois
Taste – René Redzepi
Smell – Sissel Tolaas
I could not pick an artist who specialised in Touch as I wasn’t aware of any.
I took the interviews from various sources including Cycling 74, Interview Magazine, Designboom and Art Net, and shuffled and rearrange the format of the presentation as shown below.
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Code: https://github.com/hellonun/rwet/blob/master/mashup_senses_interview.ipynb
My process –
The questions: separated words into nouns, verbs and adjectives and randomised the replacements.
The answers: shuffled and place the first 300 characters.
I am pleased with the outline of the text result. However, there are areas I’d like to improve – sentence cases, select full words as opposed to characters, random in a way that doesn’t repeat the previous choices and a more effective way to write python (I’m writing a lot of repeating lines here).
