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March 13-20, 2008            

 
         

2 + 2 = 4 = 2 * 2: If it would take one person 10 days to write a book of creative free prose it should take 10 people 1 day to write the same. And as a bonus it should be 10 times as good. That only leaves one problem, authorship. What happens if the book turns out to be a classic? Who will get the attribution of genius?


 
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Links:
Writing Workshop by David Elliot based on original project:
16-people-write-to-each-other-but-think-they-are-writing-to-a-machine#more-737

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Schedule
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1pm: Writing Workshop
David Elliot, MFA Candidate, UCLA Design, Media Arts
Link:
http://hadto.net/

2 + 2 = 4 = 2 * 2
We will work together to write a book in the least amount of time possible. If it would take one person 10 days to write a book of creative free prose it should take 10 people 1 day to write the same. And as a bonus it should be 10 times as good. That only leaves one problem, authorship. What happens if the book turns out to be a classic? Who will get the attribution of genius? This has always been the fatal obstacle with group think. But the answer is simple. Let the machine that is us receive the accolade. This is the seed that corporation is born from, but it's not the only fruit that it might bear. By using a system of abstraction, individuals may be freed from concerns of originality and authorship and revel in the lofty weightlessness of the collective body. We will share whatever successes and failures our machine might bring but only in so far as we might enjoy anyone else's work, as readers, and the machine will inherit all the sovereignty and rights of the individual, for better or worse. For once in our creative lives will as the maker will finally be reunited in the complete sense with our soul mates, the audience."


 

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1pm: Assign Roles
- Break groups into Computational and Subjective Processors.

-Choose Messengers and Chronological Time Stamper

 

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