The Literary Platform

…showcasing projects experimenting with literature and technology.



reading, technology, web 2.0, writing

DEVO Inc. Song Study



ads, branding, music, web 2.0

Your World of Text



collaboration, creativity, web 2.0, writing

Ryeberg

“Ryeberg.com invites smart, distinguished people to select and write about YouTube videos (or videos from any other video-sharing site). Each of these individual pieces becomes a “curated video.” “



academia, video, web 2.0

BOULDER PAVEMENT



aggregator, art, magazine, web 2.0

spreeder


see also, RSVP: Rapid Serial Visual Presentation



reading, web 2.0

Telescopic Text




web 2.0, writing

Lab Binaer


“The light sculpture Death calls the tune filters all the news items which go around the world minute by minute for those which deal with perdition and misery on our planet. Managed by a microcontroller the pick-up of the remodelled record player “burns” the 60 token long headlines of them into the groomed light disc which turns steadily.”



aggregator, microcontroller, sculpture, web 2.0, writing

Internet-Age Writing Syllabus

“As print takes its place alongside smoke signals, cuneiform, and hollering, there has emerged a new literary age, one in which writers no longer need to feel encumbered by the paper cuts, reading, and excessive use of words traditionally associated with the writing trade.” Robert Lanham



academia, digital poetics, web 2.0, writing

Cory Doctorow

With a Little Help


“Free e-books work for me.”



activist, web 2.0, writing

Mr. doob



pv3d Compute Spectrum Test 01



audio, web 2.0

Wordnik

“Wordnik is billions of words, 300 million example sentences, 4.5 million unique words, and over 177,000 comments, 93,000 tags, 74,000 pronunciations, 21,000 favorites and 22,000 lists created by 27,245 Wordniks.”



archive, epistemology, web 2.0

Wolfram | Alpha



abstract, aging, epistemology, web 2.0

networked

Networked proposes that a history or critique of interactive and/or participatory art must itself be interactive and/or participatory; that the technologies used to create a work suggest new forms a “text” might take.



interactive, interventions, web 2.0, writing

GitHub


“Git is a fast, efficient, distributed version control system ideal for the collaborative development of software. “



affect, code, collaborative, web 2.0

Hanson Foundation




art, posthuman, victim, web 2.0

Tumblr




aggregator, blog, infoViz, web 2.0

Academia.edu




binary search bees
coagulating craniums



academia, infoViz, web 2.0

Open Cinema | 8 COURTS 1 COLLECTIF

8 Courts 1 Collectif is an open source cinema initiative….



collaborative, web 2.0

Steal This Film II



copyright, web 2.0

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