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The event responds to the exhibition Para|Fictions: Foreword, in which Berlin-based artists Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff explore the linguistic and conceptual framework of start-ups. Through the daily fictional report of entrepreneurial experiences, the artists research the language of start-ups, composed of words and notions such as community, participation, and abstract space. What is the relationship between artistic and entrepreneurial language? How does language operate in both realms? Can we deconstruct this heavily coded and quantified language?

Contested Tongues seeks to address and expose the over-coded language used in the corporate world, drawing parallels to similar language patterns found in artistic fields. Liesbeth Noordegraaf-Eelens, Head of Humanities and Economics & Business at Erasmus University College, reflects on language usage within the corporate world, unpacking linguistic tropes and revealing the frames within which they operate, based on her Ph.D. thesis Contested Communication. A critical analysis of central bank speech. An Mertens, artistic researcher of artist-run organization Constant, presents a performance-lecture together with artist designers and members of Algolit, Manetta Berends and Gijs de Heij. Algolit – a workgroup around illiterature, operating on and beyond literature, free code and text – will be the starting point. In parallel, Mertens zeros in on the textuality of language, re-appropriating sets of codes active in Para|Fictions: Foreword, attempting to expose and question mechanisms of creating and constructing collective lived fantasies.

How did algolit start?

initiative by Constant

http://www.constantvzw.org

Brussels, November 2005 : Constant member Pierre Dejaeger VJ9 invites literary author and member of Oulipo Jacques Jouet

http://constantvzw.org/site/Verbindingen-Jonctions-9.html?lang=en http://oulipo.net

Brussels, July 2010: Active Archives Kitchen Table Workshop - Nicolas Malevé proposes to write a Python script for the Oulipian recipe 'Littérature définitionelle'

http://activearchives.org/wiki/Kitchen_table_workshop http://oulipo.net/fr/contraintes/litterature-definitionnelle

Brussels, October 2012 : Catherine Lenoble & An Mertens invite F/LOSS media artists interested in literature, Olivier Heinry & Nicolas Malevé, for a 3-day workshop. Algolit is born.

http://www.algolit.net

Algorithmic Reading

Adapting the reading glasses

adapting_the_reading_glasses.py: preprocessing file: strip white spaces, lowercase, capitalize

Reading is counting

-> Counting all words

LibreOffice: count amount of words + compare

-> Stylometry

- counting_the_frequency_of_words.py: frequency with stopwords

- counting_the_frequency_of_words_grand_cru.py: frequency without stopwords - create sorted frequency dictionary

→ reading a text without stopwords can be fun, more for sound poetry

- counting_as_a_canonical_literary_reviewer.py: nltk function: variety of words

-> Machine Learning Techniques

calculating sentiment analysis, Constant Worksession Cqrrelations, Brussels, deBuren, Jan 2015

Oulipo Writing

Until 2014 we would spend 1 day of the algolit meetings scripting 1 of the Oulipo recipes: chimère, contrainte du prisonnier, s+7

L'abécédaire: sorting sentences

http://oulipo.net/fr/contraintes/abecedaire

LibreOffice: sort -> this creates the abecedaire of Oulipo

→ invited us to study the algorithms as such by playing them out:

→ Quicksort (Nantes + Recyclart + Bilbao) – Nicolas

→ Markov chain (Désert Numérique, Transmediale) – Brendan, Catherine

→ Minimal edit Distance (Cqrrelations, Bilbao) – Adva

Littérature définitionelle // Python2

http://oulipo.net/fr/contraintes/litterature-definitionnelle

litterature_definitionelle.py: take 4 random sentences of a text & expand NN by its definition

Invent your own recipe

A famous one & very easy to apply, copied from the book 'Think Python':

novel_starring_you.py: change name of character: make yourself hero / swap names of these 2 stories

Merge two different texts based on keywords

script inspired by 'The Death of the Authors, 1941 - a generative novel', published in 2012 by Constant http://publicdomainday.constantvzw.org/#1941

remixing.py

Algoliterary Figures of Speech

From Aristotle to today

Expanding the text

tautology.py // Python2

A tautology - from the Greek word ταυτολογία, tautos (the same) and logos (word) - stresses a specific word by adding another word that has the same or a similar meaning.

Combining reading & writing

whenever_in_the_mood.py // Python 2

this script can easily be rewritten using web related data, like the weather forecast, the stockmarket scores etc

Everything is text

Experiments from the last Algolit sessions are combined by Manetta & Gijs

topic modeling

rewrite with film

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 === We could start a start-up for start-uppy start-up texts ===
-Performance lecture on 16-3-16 in Witte de With, Class of '16
-'''Email:'''
-"In the context of the exhibition Para|Fictions at Witte de With (WdW) Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, the WdW Class of '16 –  the collaborative student co-programming team of Witte de With – would  like to invite you to contribute to our first event. The event will be  centered around the contamination and slippages between artistic  and entrepreneurial language. In Para|Fictions : Foreword,  artists Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff intensify the abstractions of  notions such as community, participation, space and radical future by  focusing on the language as the object and product of  entrepreneurial startups. The event will zero in on the textuality  of this kind of language and will attempt to expose its mechanisms of  creating and constructing a collective lived fantasy.
-We  invite you to reflect on the above themes, and also, in the spirit of  the Algolit workgroup, we would like you to present your project and  attempt to deconstruct a text that will be provided to you by the second  collaborator of the event (possibly an academic lecturer about  entrepreneurial/corporate language) in order to unpack its extensive use  of affective language. Upon agreeing to your participation, we can  discuss further and agree together on the exact format of the event and  the level of interactivity with the audience and with the other contributor/lecturer."
+Performance lecture on 16-3-16 in Witte de With, Class of '16, Contested Tongues
+http://www.wdw.nl/event/class-of-16-contested-tongues/
+The event responds to the exhibition Para|Fictions: Foreword, in which Berlin-based artists Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff explore the linguistic and conceptual framework of start-ups. Through the daily fictional report of entrepreneurial experiences, the artists research the language of start-ups, composed of words and notions such as community, participation, and abstract space. What is the relationship between artistic and entrepreneurial language? How does language operate in both realms? Can we deconstruct this heavily coded and quantified language?
+Contested Tongues seeks to address and expose the over-coded language used in the corporate world, drawing parallels to similar language patterns found in artistic fields. Liesbeth Noordegraaf-Eelens, Head of Humanities and Economics & Business at Erasmus University College, reflects on language usage within the corporate world, unpacking linguistic tropes and revealing the frames within which they operate, based on her Ph.D. thesis Contested Communication. A critical analysis of central bank speech. An Mertens, artistic researcher of artist-run organization Constant, presents a performance-lecture together with artist designers and members of Algolit, Manetta Berends and Gijs de Heij. Algolit – a workgroup around illiterature, operating on and beyond literature, free code and text – will be the starting point. In parallel, Mertens zeros in on the textuality of language, re-appropriating sets of codes active in Para|Fictions: Foreword, attempting to expose and question mechanisms of creating and constructing collective lived fantasies.
 ===How did algolit start?===