Allison Parrish's guest appearances

Allison Parrish

Strange Horizons

Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People)

CoRecursive: Coding Stories

Jason Gauci

Jericho Brown

Alicia Jo Rabins

Cory Doctorow

Sam Ritchie

David Heinemeier Hansson

Craig Morgan

Morgan Parker

Natalie Diaz

Gerald Stern

Jennifer Croft

Kaveh Akbar

Claudia Rankine

Erika L. Sánchez

Sarah Gambito

OwlTail

Tech Talks are in-depth technical discussions. Generative Art involves using the tools of computation to creative ends. Adam talks to Allison Parrish about how she uses word vectors to create unique poetry. Word vectors represent a fundamentally new tool for working with text. Adam and Allison also talk about creative computer programming and building twitter bots and what makes something art. "Computer programming is beautiful and useless. That's the reason that you should want to do it is not because it's going to get you a job, because it has a particular utility, but simply for the same reasons that you would pick up oil paints or do origami or something. It's something that has like an inherent beauty to it that is worthy of studying." "For my purpose as an artist and as like someone who teaches programming to artists and designers, I want to emphasize that it's not only a vocational thing, it's not only a way for building things like to do apps for that matter. It's not only a way to, you know, write useful applications that help to organize communities or help to do scientific work and other like good applications of programming and software engineering. But there is this like very essential, very core part of computer programming that is just joyful. Um, that's about understanding your own mind in different ways and understanding the world in different lands." Experimental Creative Writing with the Vectorized Word Every Icon Word2Vect Allison Parrish's Website Tracery Articulations Every Word

Tech Talks are in-depth technical discussions. Generative Art involves using the tools of computation to creative ends. Adam talks to Allison Parrish about how she uses word vectors to create unique poetry. Word vectors represent a fundamentally new tool for working with text. Adam and Allison also talk about creative computer programming and building twitter bots and what makes something art. "Computer programming is beautiful and useless. That's the reason that you should want to do it is not because it's going to get you a job, because it has a particular utility, but simply for the same reasons that you would pick up oil paints or do origami or something. It's something that has like an inherent beauty to it that is worthy of studying." "For my purpose as an artist and as like someone who teaches programming to artists and designers, I want to emphasize that it's not only a vocational thing, it's not only a way for building things like to do apps for that matter. It's not only a way to, you know, write useful applications that help to organize communities or help to do scientific work and other like good applications of programming and software engineering. But there is this like very essential, very core part of computer programming that is just joyful. Um, that's about understanding your own mind in different ways and understanding the world in different lands." <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3D0JEA1Jdc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Experimental Creative Writing with the Vectorized Word</a> <a href="http://www.numeral.com/panels/everyicon.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Every Icon</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word2vec" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Word2Vect</a> <a href="https://www.decontextualize.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Allison Parrish's Website</a> <a href="https://tracery.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tracery</a> <a href="http://counterpathpress.org/articulations-allison-parrish" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Articulations</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/everyword" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Every Word</a>

Tech Talk: Beautiful and Useless Coding with Allison Parrish

Host Rachel Zucker speaks with poet, programmer and professor, Allison Parrish. They talk about Articulations, Parrish’s first book of poetry, why she wanted to publish a book, “the threat of permanence,” Allison’s background in linguistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and how she made the poems in Articulations. They discuss phonemes, word vectors, semantic and phonetic similarity and proximity, and the post-processing procedures she used, as well as the ways in which computer-generated language is the same or different from “intention-typical poetry.” They also discuss J.R.R Tolkien and Gertrude Stein, not being very interested in narrative, and what Parrish hopes practitioners of computer-generated poetry will do next and what she hopes they will not do. EXTRA MATERIALS FOR EPISODE 46Books by Allison ParrishArticulations (Counterpath, 2018)Allison’s massive list of completed, ongoing and upcoming projects can be found on her website!Other Books and Writers/Makers Mentioned in the EpisodeChase Berggrun’s R E D (Birds LLC, 2017)HOME/BIRTH by Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker (CreateSpace, 2017)Virtual Muse by Charles Hartman (Wesleyan, 1996)Louis Zukofsky’s 80 Flowers (Stinehour Press, 1978)Reading Zukofsky’s 80 Flowers by Michele Joy Leggott (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989)Gertrude SteinWriting Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg (Shambhala, 2005)Alison Knowles’ House of Dust Nick MonfortDaniel ShiffmanEmily Short’s Interactive StorytellingRonald JohnsonJ. R. R. TolkienJackson Mac LowOther Relevant LinksCounterpath Press’s Using Electricity seriesProject GutenbergNational Novel Generation MonthJoshua Goren

Host Rachel Zucker speaks with poet, programmer and professor, Allison Parrish. They talk about Articulations, Parrish’s first book of poetry, why she wanted to publish a book, “the threat of permanence,” Allison’s background in linguistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and how she made the poems in Articulations. They discuss phonemes, word vectors, semantic and phonetic similarity and proximity, and the post-processing procedures she used, as well as the ways in which computer-generated language is the same or different from “intention-typical poetry.” They also discuss J.R.R Tolkien and Gertrude Stein, not being very interested in narrative, and what Parrish hopes practitioners of computer-generated poetry will do next and what she hopes they will not do. <h1>EXTRA MATERIALS FOR EPISODE 46</h1><h3>Books by Allison Parrish</h3><a href="http://amzn.to/2F7RMyW" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Articulations</a> (Counterpath, 2018)<a href="http://www.decontextualize.com/projects/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Allison’s massive list of completed, ongoing and upcoming projects can be found on her website</a>!<h3>Other Books and Writers/Makers Mentioned in the Episode</h3><a href="http://www.birdsllc.com/news/r-e-d" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chase Berggrun’s R E D</a> (Birds LLC, 2017)<a href="http://amzn.to/2C318tT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HOME/BIRTH by Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker</a> (CreateSpace, 2017)<a href="http://amzn.to/2GVHqnz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Virtual Muse by Charles Hartman</a> (Wesleyan, 1996)<a href="http://amzn.to/2skxFvY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Louis Zukofsky’s 80 Flowers</a> (Stinehour Press, 1978)<a href="http://amzn.to/2E8qJax" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Reading Zukofsky’s 80 Flowers by Michele Joy Leggott </a>(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989)<a href="http://amzn.to/2Ec5hRZ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gertrude Stein</a><a href="http://amzn.to/2GWlZmg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg</a> (Shambhala, 2005)<a href="https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/james-gallery/exhibitions/house-of-dust" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alison Knowles’ House of Dust </a><a href="https://nickm.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nick Monfort</a><a href="http://shiffman.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Daniel Shiffman</a><a href="https://emshort.blog/tag/the-annals-of-the-parrigues/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling</a><a href="http://amzn.to/2C2XgZF" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ronald Johnson</a><a href="http://amzn.to/2EngdM7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">J. R. R. Tolkien</a><a href="http://amzn.to/2C2TeR6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jackson Mac Low</a><h3>Other Relevant Links</h3><a href="http://counterpathpress.org/using-electricity" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Counterpath Press’s Using Electricity series</a><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Project Gutenberg</a><a href="https://github.com/NaNoGenMo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">National Novel Generation Month</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnrf6VITPQs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Joshua Goren</a>

Episode 46: Allison Parrish