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This is an app by a guy
named [? Joerg Piringer ?]..

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He's Austrian.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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I think if I bought
that, I'd probably

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be around the house
for three days.

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It's so amazing.

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I don't know if you're
familiar with this.

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It's called a Pentametron.

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Pentametron is a
Twitter bot, which

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means it's not
really a person, it's

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just a program that
scrapes all of Twitter.

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And what it does
is, by algorithm,

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it extracts lines of iambic
pentameter and then posts

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them as it finds them in
sort of an ongoing basis.

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Or if you were to
follow Pentametron,

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you'd see a line, a line, a
line, a line, as it finds them.

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But then what it also does,
on a separate website,

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is it takes the further
step of looking for rhymes,

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and then puts them
together to form sonnets.

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Shakespearean
sonnets in this case.

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JanusNode is pretty
interesting, if you

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have any interest or
knowledge of Oulipo

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and sort of
transformative operations.

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Basically what it does is it
takes any text as an input,

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and then allows you
to set rules on how

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it is going to alter
that text, and then

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it systematically alters
that text for you.

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This is a Canadian
curator, actually,

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by trade, who also has a
series of sidewalk chalk pieces

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that are site specific.

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In this particular case,
this one says a door,

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and it's in front of a door.

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This one says, actually,
Azalea, but it's done in a way

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that it ends up looking as
if flowers are growing where

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they are now, or ought to.

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Denise Duhamel has
this beautiful piece.

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It reads one way with
the blinds closed

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and another way with
the blinds open,

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so you have this mechanism that
allows you to change the slats.

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And I have to
explain this a lot.

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Roy Arenella is a
guy, he's probably

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one of the most
genuine human beings

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I've ever had the privilege to
know and to correspond with.

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He's a photographer by trade,
but he's a mail artist.

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He opted out of
the gallery system

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25 years ago for various
frustrated reasons,

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and he became a mail artist.

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And the kind of mail art that
Roy practices is very unique,

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in my experience.

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Mail art is a huge, thriving
international community,

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that if anybody is ever
stumped for inspiration,

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I totally recommend
you join for a while.

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The only rule of
mail artists, you

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have to send mail
art to get mail art.

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But if you do any kind
of web search on it,

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you'll find access into
an absolute volcano

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of creativity coming into your
mailbox, all day, every day.

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It's an amazing community.

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But what [? Ray ?] does,
there's a kind of mail art,

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it's actually a kind
of stamp collecting,

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it's called
maximalist philately.

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And what these
people try to do is

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they try to match the postmark
to the stamp, to the envelope,

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to the person, and they
try to make everything

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as absolutely
personal as possible.

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But Roy does that, he kind
of takes it a step further,

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because he takes a photo
that becomes the postcard,

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and then he will
match the stamps

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with the content
of the postcard,

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with the message
that he's sending,

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to make a piece
that is as maximally

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personal a connection to
him and the person that he's

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sending them to as is
possible on that piece.

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And if there's a
better definition

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of poetry in the world,
I do not know what it is.

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And that is all I
have for this part.

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I'd like to take
about five minutes

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where everybody can kind of
stand up, wiggle their butt.

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[INAUDIBLE]

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[APPLAUSE]

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