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StoryMapping
The Center for Digital Storytelling created the StoryMapping project to provide a forum for the exploration of the connection between narrative and place as well as links to a set of tools ...
“Linguistic Chemistry”
Neil Hennessey's JABBER produces random streams of letters that form clusters based on the likelihood of their creating sounds in English. These sounds merge into words, and an evolving poem of nonsense--much like ...
Verbal Mosaic
The diversity of human language inspired artist Elly Sherman to explore the sounds of words and the appearance of writing as art--a kind of living "music" that reflects both cultural diversity and the transcendence of ...
Literary Arts
Realizing that the ability to appreciate literature nurtures critical thinking skills while enriching life, and that reading competency is an essential component of both social justice and civil society, the founders of
An Open Book
An exhibition supported by the Smithsonian Institution and the Washington Project for the Arts in the 1990s used seminal titles in science writing as the inspiration for works that re-imagined the text, ...
Storytelling with Cards and Cubes
London-based think tank Proboscis provides a setting in which artists and scholars can explore the relationship between individuals, communities, and the environment, and create tools through which people can articulate their own ...
Tom Paine in PDF
Diffusion provides a way for researchers and artists to share low-cost broadsides and pamphlets through templates for PDF documents. While sharing PDF files is not exactly new, Diffusion consciously chose to present each ...
Bibliomapping
Mapping Amazon(.com) emerged as an effort to create a "random interaction with books"--the experience you have browsing libraries and bookstores to find nearby titles on the same topic. As users zoom in, new ...
A Literary Landscape
The collaborative art project Mr. Beller's Neighborhood invites participants to submit literary nonfiction concerning life in New York. Works are then linked to GoogleEarth images of the city, allowing visitors ...
Genealogy of Influence
Mike Love's Genealogy of Influence visualizes the relationships between artists, authors, and philosophers in a shifting web. Arrows show the flow of influence and inspiration; lines indicate a relationship between intellectual peers. ...
Cities of Art
UNESCO's Creative Cities Network works with local artists, public agencies, and private supporters to nurture social and economic development while promoting global cultural diversity. The system works on both ...
So it goes.
Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle” and “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” caught the temper of his times and the imagination of ...