xxxxx workshop 19: Text Generation with Python July 14, 2007

Generative Text With Python:

Python is a powerful object oriented programming language with extremely
broad applications. That may sound intimidating but fortunately, it's
easy for programmers with limited experience to get started. The
easiest place to begin is with text processing.

This workshop will take you through the basics of Python coding with the
goal of creating synthetic texts. Make your own fake Dickens novel.
Unify the theories (or at least the phrases) of Freud and Jung. Roll
your own SPAMs. Create a joke machine. Translate your email to
Rumsfeldian Newspeak, Fachjargon or Art-speak. We'll give your computer
verbal diarrhea.

What to bring:

-Computer with Python 2.4 or later installed (any platform):
http://python.org/download/

-Optional: Any print text or digital text that you'd like to
re-process.

About The Instructor:

Brendan Howell is an artist and engineer from Baltimore, MD, USA. His
current project, "The Howell Ersatz Co." explores the history of
technology with a series of fake artifacts.

Please RSVP [email protected] to reserve places

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Background:

A weekly series of constructivist workshops emphasising making and
connection within the field of the existent.

Workshops led by field-expert practitioners extend over realms of code
and embedded code, environmental code, noise, transmission and
reception, and electromysticism. Workshops solely utilise free
software and GNU toolbase.

Practitioners include Julian Oliver (http://selectparks.net/), Derek
Holzer (http://soundtransit.nl), Jeff Mann (http://jeffmann.com),
Martin Howse (http://1010.co.uk), Fredrik Olofsson
(http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/), superfactory
(http://superfactory.biz), Florian Cramer
(http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/), Brendan Howell

Please RSVP [email protected] to reserve any places or register
interest. Please forward.

xxxxx, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119

U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl.
U8, Rosenthaler Pl.

Telephone: 3050187482.

http://1010.co.uk/workshop.html

http://1010.co.uk/xxxxx_research_institute.html

Official Website: http://pickledfeet.com