Online publication of the festival V/J 12.

This publication collects the different texts that were produced for the lectures and presentation of Verbindingen/Jonctions J12. It also constitutes a platform for experiments. What becomes possible when texts are released under a free license? What happens when two texts apparently very different from each other, but with many points of contact at a second reading, are brought together, mixed, smashed, and suddenly acquire a completely different form and meaning? Isn't every text ambiguous and being open to different interpretations? And how can the grey literature surrounding textual production influences the process of reading and decoding it?

Macro

Macro (detail)

The Macro experiment displays (almost) all the grey literature (bills, lists, handwritten notes) produced by the festival V/J12. You can re-arrange the files according to 2 parameters, one represented on the X axis, the other on the Y axis.

Natural Language ToolKit Experiments

Using NLTK, we want to observe what different results the computer can find when comparing texts than what human logic can. Therefore, we used the same couples of texts than in the remixes to have a different approach. Each couple can be filtered through three sorting methods: * by "concordances" (viewing in what context the same word appears in both texts); * by "similar contexts" (finding words sharing the same context in both texts); * by "collocations" (finding couples of words in both texts).

Paracode

Paracode.

The term paratext is coined by Gérard Genette in 1987. It gathers all the text elements around the text itself which are usually considered as secondary and sometimes optional (some elements of the paratext are added or removed from one edition to another). This "grey" text is "a zone not only of transition but also of transaction: a privileged place of pragmatics and a strategy, of an influence on the public, an influence that [...] is at the service of a better reception for the text and a more pertinent reading of it." In Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation, Genette draws up a list of all paratext elements of a book (fiction, non-fiction, poetry...). We are trying through the close-reading of a piece of software, written by Anne-Laure Buisson for V/J12, to find new paratext elements specific to the digital nature of a contemporary text, and more precisely, of a piece of code: a text which is supposed to be read by a specific public (sometimes the author himself), a text which has a precise function.