{"id":820,"date":"2011-11-27T22:22:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T02:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glia.ca\/conu\/digitalPoetics\/prehistoric-blog\/?p=796"},"modified":"2011-11-27T22:22:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T02:22:51","slug":"796","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glia.ca\/conu\/digitalPoetics\/prehistoric-blog\/2011\/11\/27\/796\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Speech Shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glia.ca\/2011\/easy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-797\" title=\"e\" src=\"http:\/\/glia.ca\/conu\/digitalPoetics\/prehistoric-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/JHAVE_THESIS_PRESENTATION_NOV11.047-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By modelling the geometric resonance of speech, visually expressive letterforms emerge.<\/p>\n<p>The advantages of light emitting screens rather than reflective paper are obvious:<\/p>\n<p>all the features of the letterform can modulate as sounded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glia.ca\/2011\/easy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-797\" title=\"a\" src=\"http:\/\/glia.ca\/conu\/digitalPoetics\/prehistoric-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/JHAVE_THESIS_PRESENTATION_NOV11.048-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Diaphragm, trachea, larynx, tongue, palette, lips:<\/p>\n<p>tubes that resonate to create resonance.<\/p>\n<p>Language landscapes labyrinth lingual.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glia.ca\/2011\/easy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-797\" title=\"s\" src=\"http:\/\/glia.ca\/conu\/digitalPoetics\/prehistoric-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/JHAVE_THESIS_PRESENTATION_NOV11.049-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New letterforms grown from formulas.<\/p>\n<p>Coral reefs, language, compilers, modular organs in bodies, brownian surfaces, broccoli, human brains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 virtually all complex systems, regardless of whether they are composed of molecules, neurons, or people, can be meaningfully described as networks.\u201d (Olaf Sporns, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/catalog\/item\/default.asp?ttype=2&amp;tid=12288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Networks of the Brain<\/a><\/span>. pg.29)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glia.ca\/2011\/easy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-797\" title=\"yes\" src=\"http:\/\/glia.ca\/conu\/digitalPoetics\/prehistoric-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/JHAVE_THESIS_PRESENTATION_NOV11.050-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saussure famously described the <em>arbitrariness of the sign<\/em>: a gap between sign, signified and referent.<\/p>\n<p>That gap is reduced by digital typography.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, the gap is erased by digital poetry.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, language hits a singularity &amp; dies.<\/p>\n<p>Some celebrate. 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