Margaret Barry, Carrot Keyboard (2018)
Xuefei Yang, World of Dew (2018)
Simone Ashmoore, Machine Poem (2018)
Media: punchcard, knitting machine, wool yarn
I punched-out a phrase, “SO SOFT ON ME” into a knitting machine punch-card and input it into my machine and knit a large, automatically repeating, knit piece by hand. See images 3 and 4 for the punch-card input, see image 5 for the knitting machine set-up mid-knit, see images 1 and 2 for the final result. (image 2 was actually my first try and it glitched so I re-knit it in red and pink).
Yong Jin Jo, Machine Poem (2018)
Taylor Heide, Machine Poem (2018)
Metadata: After effects, Audio recording
Duration: 1 minute and 34 seconds
Author's Note: The Poem “Red” is about a night where the color red is the only thing that comes to mind when I think back to that night. I searched for events that took place that night much like the visual of my roommate solving the red side to a rubix cube searches for completion. Missed and completed interaction and whole and broken connections. A color I hadn’t considered prevalent in my life until I wrote this poem and still kind of don’t. The poem has gone through many transformations since January where it was first written with a bright blue pen with red marker and color-pencil scribbled below it with the outline of a hanging light bulb as an visual remnant of that night. And it is possible it will go through many more if I chose to work with it again in the future.
Poem generated using Citation Machine http://www.citationmachine.net/
Author's Note: How to work with parameters? Parameters are both a limitation and a cliché that retrospectively works in your advantage. Formats, through specific parameters, allow indexing and mechanize the process of archiving, as is a bibliography. The qualities of such format overlap with the potentials of programability online, such is the result of Citation Machine. If a device that yields information and formats it to maximize its history, from alphabet to minimum components, the potential for poetics might live in those same constraints.
Myself, By myself. “It has been years since anxiety scratched this close to my cranium.” Sitting where the light is dim ,
Jan. & Feb. 2018.
Of mine, Mind. “Whether this is the fuel that ignites such feeling or not.” Right where a bad deed, Winter 2017.
Potentially, Them, And Peers Alike, and If You Will The Whole World. “Mistake associated with good spirited words .”
“You have to learn from your mistakes!”.
Q’pasa, Conmigo? “It immortalizes every past event I hate to think about.”
The entire weight in one day.
Robust feeling, Here inside. “One excuse is all one might need.” Wish for a lifestyle fatigued from responsibilities,
Jan. & Feb. 2018.
Subsequently, And above all . “A case rested on the necessity to prove someone, or everybody who I would never see again.”
I was capable of doing something that probably did not cross their mind then, and certainly ever since, December 2017.
Then, Again. “A case rested on the necessity to prove someone, or every body who I would never see again.” I was capable of doing
something that probably did not cross their mind then, and certainly ever since, December 2016.
Under, A few years. “A case rested on the necessity to prove someone, or everybody who I would never see again.” I was capable of doing
some thing that probably did not cross their mind then, and certainly ever since, December 2015.
Very far, And long ago. “A case rested on the necessity to prove someone, or everybody who I would never see again.” I was capable of doing
something that probably did not cross their mind then, and certainly ever since, December 2014.
One can go on
Voracious, In need of deprecation. “Not one one thought.” Anything, anyone else might have been in need to prove,
February 20, 2018.
Travis Morehead, Notes Taken with a Drill (2018)
Time It Takes It Time (2018)
An orchid blossom from atop an early Valentine's Day dinner cocktail, text painted on with gouache, set in a saucepan, with beeswax, on top of a running heater.
Margaret Barry, Carrot keyboard (2018)