Working at the intersections of science, art and technology, wr3ad1ng d1g1t5 collective (wreading-digits.com) has been betting on the potential of digital technological media as a self-reflexive questioning with regard to haptic wreading processes and the materialities derived from it. In the wake of an experimentalist tradition, wr3ad1ng d1g1t5 collective continues the poetic and aesthetic concerns of creative researchers such as Ana Hatherly, Ernesto Manuel de Melo e Castro, António Aragão, and Pedro Barbosa, namely by exploring dialectical tensions between tradition and innovation, such as the ones conveyed by the combination of affective computational creativity and literary making.
Among the various exhibitions and art festivals in which they participated are PLUNC 2015, ELO 2017, FOLIO 2017, FILE 2017, ARTeFACTo 2018 and ELO 2021.
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Poetry ⨂ maths ?
wr3ad1ng d1g1t5 says: "CHANGE\CHANCE is an interactive poem that makes use of iteration and/as constraint in order to present a digital homage to Stéphane Mallarmé's famous “Un Coup de Dés…”. By (re)combining its words on the screen, the poem (re)appears in yet another type of faux-organization exploring the limits of randomness and sense-making.
While throwing the dice, the reader is invited to take her chances, creating a singular version of the poem, in an ever-changing 12 verse rendition. The rules of the game are pre-determined, following a simple equation: each verse will be composed of three words formed by a specific number of letters corresponding to the number in each dice + the sum of the numbers on both dices. The results, however, as with all games, will never abolish CHANGE\CHANCE."
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