randomism - text dadaator

randomism is a project by thea sikker remin and jacob sikker remin, exploring chaos, flow, poetry, and data.

the text dadaator is an unfinished set of open source text mashup machines, which builds on selected text snippets modified by machines and filtered by humans in flow.

in stead of focusing on highly complex algorhitms and AI for text generation, the project focuses on making the selection and refinement process easy and enjoyable for humans.

the resulting human+machine generated text is often surprisingly touching, funny and sometimes even profound.

exhibition history

the text dadaator has previously been presented as the foundation for an installation at the festival of endless gratitude in 2010. a wall mounted box displaying a mix of the growing/mutating auto poetry database, with a selection of the words used by the bands at the festival; either in their names or descriptions. with the possibilty of festival guests sending additions to the mix via sms.

download / collaborate

download the source code and executable files here: https://github.com/jsr606/text-dadaator

if you would like to include a word / a sentence / an algorithm in the project, please email: dadaator@campingsex.org.

always remember: random is good