The first of three posts about the details of my NaNoGenMo 2016 project, Annales

1. Vocabularies | 2. TextGen | 3. Events

Annales was originally going to be a long-form version of @GLOSSATORY, a Twitter bot I made earlier this year. Glossatory is driven by a recurrent neural net trained on around …

This was the first time I submitted a NaNoGenMo entry which aimed at being readable, in contrast to my previous efforts, Everywhere Dense and Neuralgae, which were really abstract. Annales is a generated parody of a very ancient genre, the chronicle, which tells history as a sequence of reigns, deaths …

My entry for National Novel Generating Month 2016 is a procedurally-generated chronology of rulers, courtiers and tribes, using a nonsense vocabulary generated with the neural net which drives my twitter bot, @GLOSSATORY.

The full text is available on GitHub:

• ANNALES
• ANNALES.pdf

The source code is here

I'll be blogging …

Gedankōans - a Twitter sequence from a few years ago which I finally got around to publishing as a collection.

I've got two short articles in MATERIALITY: FAKE, now online at Pinknantucket Press:

An uncanny valley in reverse is a brief illustrated attempt to explain the computational underpinning of deepdreams for a lay audience.

Vermiculation, on the use of fake rustic textures in classical architecture and its colonial domestic descendants …

In 2013 I wrote and published an eighty-one-verse poem in Spenserian stanzas on FSVO. It started as an affectionate parody of the works of writers like Erasmus Darwin, who in the eighteenth century enthusiastically boosted the natural sciences in poems which are now long unread. It grew into something a …

For NaNoGenMo (national novel generation month) 2015, I wrote some Python which generates a series of loosely-coupled deepdream images, and adds eight-line surrealist 'poetry' to them based on the image categories used to draw them.

The full text is here: Neuralgae.

The source code and a fairly detailed description of …

Here are several sequences which ran on FSVO earlier this year.

The LITANY OF INFINITY - an incomplete catalogue of transfinite cardinals

MANY MOONS - a catalogue of the nature, population and attributes of the Solar System's satellites

An essay on MIGRATORY WORDS, their seasonal habits and reproductive cycle

The chronicles of Louchébem, an ancient city shrouded in myth, legend and metafiction, which started out as a series of short vignettes on Nannygoat Hill in 2010. Writing thirty of these is the closest I've come to doing NaNoWriMo. 'The Faithful Alchemist', a more substantial story in the same setting …

I wrote a bluffer's guide to Matthew Barney's insane five-part epic art film after seeing it at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. It's so old that it used to live on my staff home page, back when staff could have home pages: then it fell off the net …