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site for intervention in the creative process, this paper frames the problem of imagination and choice in
studio practice as a series of operations on sets of data (ideas, images, and materials) represented in the
space of language. This choice of representation is drawn from the idea of indexical language, as a an solution approach to the problem of representing materially diverse assets in a common space—in this case a
multi-dimensional vector space as described in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational
Linguistics (CL) literature. Using tools from the fields of NLP and CLthose fields, specifically vector representations
and relatedness operations, I describe and implement a language processing system, applying it to the
domains of video composition and an art-idea machine, creating formulae for studio art objects. Less
== Outline ==
=== Text as Best Index ===
Background/Motivation
* online culture produces massive, language-annotated media datasets, (e-mails, twitter, text message, any direct messaging), and (video, audio, photos)
* Text as best index
* Computational NLP as tool.
=== What will the program do? ===
* Speculative exploration (in the realm of ideas) ... grow something beyond its bounds. (Diagram 1) ideas ?= language.
* retrieval (humans do that). search engines. key-phrase. (semantically) related search.
* ordering/sequencing. (the production of cinematic experience?) ruminatory... wandering... associative": "ocean"->"sky"->"blue"->"red"->"nail polish"->
* art object as parameterizable object, template: <title><ostensible subject><dimensions><medium><material>
=== semantic gaussian blur ===
* nearest neighbor replacement
* analagous to associative free-thinking
=== Concerns with my approaches ===
* ...but randomness is not good enough! don't remove the human from the loop, HI remains key criteria/filter. when do we like randomness (what point is made)? when do we not?
* ...is it more interesting with intent? giving a system intent AI/ugh. If not intent, how about peroccupations/fixations.
=== Megahal Grandmommy ===
=== Language Brain ===
== References ==