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John Klima: Jack and Jill, 2002

Artist John Klima uses a programming technique called constants to make typically cryptic code readable. Jack and Jill is based on the original Jack and Jill rhymes, but it is not only a source code story, it is executeable. You can even program their behaviors. Are you a feminist or a chauvinist? How alluring is that pail? Source code as poetry and poetry as program.

 

Technology: Java Applet

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Artist John Klima uses a programming technique called constants to make typically cryptic code readable. Jack and Jill is based on the original Jack and Jill rhymes, but it is not only a source code story, it is executeable. You can even program their behaviors. Are you a feminist or a chauvinist? How alluring is that pail? Source code as poetry and poetry as program.

 

Technology: Java Applet

To view, please add Whitney Artport Homepage to your exception list in Java security settings.

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Keywords:
  • Aesthetics
  • Genre
    • Game Art
    • Net Art
  • Subject
    • Abstracta
      • space
    • Body and Human
      • Emotion
  • Technology
    • Software
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Video duration: 0:53 min.
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Comment by Martin Wattenberg: "The choice of Visual Basic is rare among artists, and using it for this game-inspired artwork is a nice touch, a bit like creating a whimsical sculpture out of corporate cubicle walls. In skilled hands VB can be unusually close to English, which is ideal for this assignment. This pseudo-game is playful and fun, yet also is a miniature "complex system," representing one of the deepest forms of interactivity."
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Comment by Camille Utterback: "Your code had me laughing hysterically. I knew someone would approach this project as a 'writing' project as well as a coding project, but you succeeded beyond anything I could have imagined. I've taught Lingo to artists at NYU (as you know) and my students occasionally send me 'lingo poetry' where they write functional code with a second literary 'read' as you have done. I think I get these poems from them because when I introduce the logic of code structures, I do it the other way around -- 'If (it's raining out) then bring your umbrella' etc. I once 'coded' a persistent difficulty I was having in life as follows: while(true){ procrastinate } For those of you reading this who don't code -- this is an infinite loop calling a procrastination function. The condition which makes the loop repeat is always true, so there's no way to stop procrastinating -- ever. I sent this code to a colleague explaining my dilemma (Geoff Smith for those of you who know him) and he proposed what he described as a simple, though unconventional solution: define TRUE FALSE define FALSE TRUE Redefine truth, and I never get stuck procrastinating . . . "
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Golan Levin, Axis Applet, 2002
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