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Diamonds in Dystopia: A Poetry Performance Web App

Diamonds in Dystopia is a live-streaming poetry web app that explores how interactive, mobile technology can be harnessed to benefit the presentation and experience of the literary arts. This performance enhancing web app can also be a multimedia visual and sound installation. We will perform and discuss creative data mining. The audience sends word selections by tapping them on their mobiles to trigger Markov chain reactions (of +2500 TED talks as a found text), enabling succinct recombination of massive amounts of language as source material for improvisation--giving new insight to poetry in the post-human world and reaching a level of audience interactivity previously impossible.

Programming descriptions are generated by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SXSW.

photo of Jesse Allison
Jesse Allison

Louisiana State University

photo of Vincent Cellucci
Vincent Cellucci

Louisiana State University

photo of Derick Ostrenko
Derick Ostrenko

Louisiana State University

photo of Margaret Schedel
Margaret Schedel

Consortium For Digital Arts Culture and Technology At Stony Brook University

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