Wednesday, February 22, 2006
It was one of those days that seemed to pass very slowly but in actuality both morning and afternoon disappeared as if they didn’t happen at all. At the same time, it felt like nothing got done, but in the end more than enough was accomplished. I’ve had days like this before, which usually happen after sitting at the desk for several days in a row: time becomes totally abstract! At a certain point in this warp of hours I started tripping out about how the word multimedia has the word time in it, and all of the different things that can imply…
Several good things happened. I added 1000 words to the Electronic Creative Writing lecture after re-reviewing many great works I’ll be presenting, including the Google Poetry Generator (and its counterpart Googlism, which I think I like better), TRAVESTY (online), aND’s “MEsostic for Dick Higgins,” Jim Andrews’ VISPO (ems), a couple of pieces by Giselle Beiguelman, Augusto de Campos’ “Sem-Saida” (from Não Poemas, which I brought with me), Glazier’s “COG,” Mencia’s “Birds Singing Other Birds Songs,” M. Joyce’s “12 Blue,” Aya Karpinska’s “The Arrival of the beeBox,” Diana Slattery’s “AlphaWeb,” and Stephanie Strickland’s “The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot.” I’ve taught all of these works before, and written about most of them too, but it was fun (and a luxury) to revisit them all and figure out what I want to convey about them here (I’ll post a link to the lecture site once it is uploaded). Along the way, I spent time at a few blogs and other sites, and making texts with various online devices, like this “Order 4” TRAVESTY (1000 character output) using my lecture script as input:
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I’ve been in such a cave the past 3 years, writing out and conducting the research that I’ve never really had (or had the liberty to make) time to play with Andrews’ “Arteroids,” but did have a blast (pun intended) with it this afternoon. As with most video games, I by-passed the directions & much enjoyed figuring out to do with it on my own…
Several folks visited the office today, including Ali, whose script/screenplay I read and found interesting—basically a one scene existential plot with a dire ending—because the terse language was just descriptive enough so that everything could be clearly visualized. Ali has become in the past few days very excited about digital poetry, and wants to do an interview for an Iranian magazine. I emailed him the essay on the subject I wrote for the Blackwell’s Companion to Digital Literary Studies; I guess we’ll see how that develops. Khong paid a visit, and we discussed the possibility of doing an in-house publication of the e-book I’ve been putting together, which seems promising. I’ll make copies of the prototype I’ve put together for some of the Interface Design people tomorrow, will get feedback from them, and will take it from there.
Beyond these things, lots of little events, emails, talk with students, colleagues, lunch with Amy. I like the varied routine, disciplined work with interesting distractions. Trying to get so much done, so I can do so much more!
OK, finally, a “googlism” about the school:
multimedia university exists in an on
multimedia university international in character and borderless in its ownership
multimedia university shuffles on in seen as critical not only to supply the people for the many new enterprises to be cited in cyberjaya
multimedia university turns upward from a key aspect of musictech college's curriculum
multimedia university shuffles on in no ordinary university since it will become the
multimedia university drags at the very heart of the malaysian multimedia super corridor
multimedia university is exhausted by well placed to function as a strong catalyst in this context in this context
multimedia university plants the first private university to be established in malaysia
multimedia university frightens no ordinary
multimedia university fiddles currently under construction and scheduled to open in 1998
multimedia university brings fully owned by telekom malaysia berhad
multimedia university shakes located at bukit beruang
multimedia university colours an excellent example of an institution of higher learning that churns out graduates who will not only meet the demand for workers who
multimedia university is stirred by to the right
multimedia university sees not a virtual university
multimedia university calls a faculty
multimedia university puts on the engineering students' voice in multimedia university
multimedia university breeds committed to providing quality education and services to its students
multimedia university sees in fact a perfectly fine and reputable institution; it's just had the misfortune to be saddled with a buzzword for a name
multimedia university spreads out into a great experience for me because the environment here gets demobbed by much different from any public or private university
multimedia university comes from a body that was established with a mission to represent all the students in multimedia university
multimedia university cannot spean of the nation
multimedia university thunders at committed to produce and train quality it workers to help
multimedia university fits into situated in a region called multimedia super corridor
multimedia university enters another misnomer that needs addressing
multimedia university powders new to the world
multimedia university comes to successfully selling content to Europe
multimedia university plants also acknowledged
multimedia university shows a twin campus of the Melaka
multimedia university meets to create online multimedia learning system
multimedia university stares at now open and expected to reach its
multimedia university swells with currently operational with two campuses; in cyberjaya and in Melaka
multimedia university doubles situated in the msc and looks at expected to produce techno savvy ict graduates for the local as well as global k
multimedia university never speaks to located
multimedia university snarls at strategically located in the new town of cyberjaya which speaks to rapidly becoming a hub for
multimedia university retracts a response to the second problem of developing new content and related technologies
multimedia university fits into progressing well and during the year a second batch of 520 students graduated
multimedia university loiters in an example of one of the innovative ways to enrich teaching and learning but also to enhance the e
multimedia university turns at being built now by telekom malaysia in the msc
multimedia university gives one of the most modern of its kind with digital technology & latest teaching & learning techniques
multimedia university remembers very soon when i decided to launch my domain
