Awesome and bizzare copy of my article
Kinetic artist Matt Jones, who I profiled in Make Vol. 8, turned up this, um, remix of my article on him. I can only assume the authors of this transformation used a program that replaces words with their synonyms to create a copy that is like, and completely unlike, the original. The title of the story that I wrote is the The Secret Life of Death Clouds. The new version calls itself The Abstruse Activity of Afterlife Clouds.
Here’s the first paragraph of the new article:
Matt Jones contemplates activity by architecture affective sculptures that abort to carbon it. A alum apprentice in art at Stanford University, his investigations accept led him, a part of added things, to use an air compressor to breathing a respiratory arrangement ancient from old bike close tubes, and to motorize a carpeting of zip ties abstemious with LEDs to almost a pulsing, acclaim respiring, bristling hide. His goal: to aggravate out the basic aspect that makes the active live.
Debate over which version’s writing is of higher quality will undoubtedly have the comments section hopping for months, so I’ll keep my own judgments to myself. I’ll bet, though, that the magniloquent program behind this recreation would interest Italo Calvino, who stuck a word-counting, genre-analyzing computer into his novel If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler. It’s probably child’s play for Philip Parker, who has turned automated internet searches into hundreds of thousands of books for sale on Amazon, and claims he’s working on software that will generate romance novels.
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