Allison Parrish at IAWP (University of Colorado Boulder)

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Allison at IAWP (University of Colorado Boulder)

• Website
• Projects
• Twitter
• My Twitter bots
• Rewordable on Kickstarter!

Workshop Materials

• Generate text from grammars with Tracery. My Tracery tutorial; here's Beau Gunderson's Tracery Writer, which we'll use in the workshop
• Lines to JSON is a little utility I made that formats lines of plain text as JSON, to make it easier to incorporate them into a Tracery grammar.
• Darius Kazemi's Corpora Project is a database JSON files with various lists of things that you can easily cut and paste into a Tracery grammar.
• Once you've written a Tracery grammar, you can turn it into a Twitter bot instantly with Cheap Bots Done Quick
• Processing and generating text on the UNIX command line

Inspirations, references and resources

• L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Lines
• Grep: A Grammar
• Thus &
• Jackson Mac Low, Insect Assassins and Call Me Ishmael
• Hartley, G. "Listen" and "Relate": Notes Towards a Reading of Jackson Mac Low
• Reed, N. The Official @Thinkpiecebot FAQ
• Aram Saroyan
• Other generative tools using text analysis: edde addad's charNG and Doug Luman's Applied Poetics
• Syllabi and notes for various courses I teach/have taught:
  • Reading and Writing Electronic Text
  • Appropriation, Iteration, and Recontextualization
  • Word Game Workshop
  • Hypertext and Interactive Fiction
  • Data and Databases