Talking to Machines (Those A**Holes) with Sarah Groff-Palermo

Description

In this class, we will discuss what it means to envision speaking to machines as a special case of using language as opposed to a special case of math or magical incantations. We will explore the artistic and aesthetic possibilities of creating our own distorting languages. Day 1: Talking to Machines, PLT Through the Ages Discuss the history of PLT & talking to machines, including esolangs On Distortion, Exercises in Style Learn about parsing expression grammars Set Up tools Day 2: Making Our Own Working alone or in teams to make a distortion language with either PLTJS or Ohm