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Voodoo Word. An interactive artwork by Mike Larsson. Voodoo Word. Hardware Interactive model Linguistic element. Hardware. FlecTron Conductive Fabric. Ripstop nylon subjected to electroless copper plating process Flexible, tear resistant, cut and sewn like ordinary fabric
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Voodoo Word An interactive artwork by Mike Larsson
Voodoo Word • Hardware • Interactive model • Linguistic element
FlecTron Conductive Fabric • Ripstop nylon subjected to electroless copper plating process • Flexible, tear resistant, cut and sewn like ordinary fabric • Surface resistivity: ≤0.1 ohms/inch² (i.e. conductive!) • Other fabrics paper-like, pin holes didn’t close • Less EMF Inc. (www.lessemf.com)
Microprocessor • BASIC Stamp from Parallax • Board of Education kit
The linguistic element • Simplest option: randomly select a canned phrase from a database • Slightly more linguistically informed option: select from a database of templates that can grow (to some degree) dynamically • Future work (?): corpus-based approaches, semantically informed template system
The linguistic element I hope your noun gets verbed by a noun. I hope your adjectivenoun gets adverbverbed by an adjectivenoun. I hope your adverbadjectivenoun gets adverbadverbverbed by an adjective,adjectivenoun. Etc. Infinite intensifiers: • really, really, really, really… • end of sentence!!!!!!