Look with all your eyes, look
 (JULES VERNE, Michael Strogoff)


 (GEORGES PEREC trans. DAVID BELLOS, Life: a User's Manual)

Formally

Welcome to Titled, "Untitled," being the Master of Fine Arts thesis work of degree candidate Kavi Duvvoori for that certificate in Digital Arts and New Media under the Arts Division of the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Hyperlinkedly

Linguistics

Misc

The Builders Language (a Cartridge) ,
Room With Montague,
The Faraway Summer Evenings
embed+this=wherever
OHELLOHI ILIEHIDE Variations
Language kept happening

Technically

A domain is registered through namecheap.com. The string "titleduntitled" in the ".name" registrar is pointed to a Digital Ocean nameserver and ip address, from which it will route traffic to a data center somewhere near SFO, into an Ubuntu Linux machine somehow virtualized over their hardware. Docker-compose, running in that virtual machine, itself virtualizes a cluster of containers running the various projects collected here. One of these containers runs an nginx reverse proxy to direct traffic to the service to handle it. In this case, that is an Xwiki instance, which must run in the Java Virtual Machine - this content meanwhile is stored in a MySQL database running in another Docker container, accessed through the virtual network Docker sets up between containers in the same (virtual) cluster. 

Informally

i, uh, made this .. it's a wiki about theories of language that's also a portfolio and also an art. i'm not sure why, but it was fun messing with this shit (i'm not sure what it does and am not convinced it's politics & effects are more good than bad; don't tell anyone i said this - will quote Joann Rettalack at high speed, sans interrupting breath, if i need to argue (with myself) that it's good). Anyway, you are warmly welcomed into the thrill & riot of this (virtualized, containerized) SQL database. Please feel free to jump around whenever you tire of reading introductions (the things under the Titled, "Untitled" heading in the Navigation Panel to the left are good places to start; You might also be interested in the Profile of __ pages [not yet.. But soon!] under XWiki in the Navigation bar (or you might not be interested in ...)). Please do whatever you like (short of taking advantage of security vulnerabilities to break things, if you would not punch a screen or throw some ceramic surface on the ground (unless your breakage has genuinely interesting or convincingly-radical intent, in which case i'm v flattered by the interest)).

Fictionally

The Committee Made in Charge of Such Matters (henceforth: CMiCoSM) received imperial commission to assemble a definitive encyclopedia of language games. Setting out for many years on their various researches, ethnographies, experiments, cataloging journeys, the CMiCoSM gathered reams of parchment, live samples, albums of floppy disks, clay and calligraphy on old newspapers, waveforms on hard disks or drawn along scrolls, unbroken lineages of parrots, knots and rock piles, cast bronze and dance companies. Unfortunately, infighting, idleness, and a general socioenvironmental collapse left the manuscripts in an unfinished state. In this compendium, we endeavour to reconstruct the encyclopedia as it would have been written. Guesses, of course, are made as to the connectives between palimpsest scraps. It is possible certain games were reversed entirely by a lens-fly misread as MacGuffin, at last, found. We can only ask for the CMiCoSM’s forgiveness, but the libraries would wait no longer to host the encyclopedia on the third row of their B basements’ 64th shelf.

Abstractly

Titled, “Untitled” presents a compendium of language games by the author in conversation with various models of language. A compositional semantics parses sentences about two rooms while an author interjects other assertions; a general adversarial network simultaneously attempts to generate and detect forgeries of signatures; a word-embedding thesaurus degenerates sentence constellations; 3d word-models fall heavily through gamespace; common consonants and vowels simulate the cellular automata Game of Life to discover words and a territory; a novella describes the meeting of a professional Starcraft 2 player and a language gamer.

The catalog takes the form of a wiki, where each entry offers a summary of a theoretical framework before presenting a work implementing it, working with its metaphors, or drawing attention to the remainder the theory excludes. Concerns across Titled, “Untitled” include the materialities of digital language; the problem of digital language’s simultaneous algorithmic processors and human audiences; the social, corporate, and technical infrastructures that mediate digital speech; and the search for positive semantic or human possibilities in linguistic positions or identities defined as a negative space (e.g. “queer” or “person of color”).

The quirks and failures of linguistic models, appearing in technical literatures before entering the human world through ubiquitous software systems, now act upon and evaluate us daily through systems for translation, sentiment and network surveillance, and the corporate characters for synthetic conversation. This project asks how and where digital literary art can approach these contemporary situations, contextualizing its practice alongside movements intervening artistically in language such as OuLiPo, language poetry, fluxus, net.art, and conceptual art. Titled, “Untitled” pursues a strategy similar to the one Jenny Schlenzka identifies in Adam Pendleton’s Black Dada’s, “first, to study these stabilizing functions of institutional language and then to take the further step of introducing elements of destabilization. What would happen… if a museum were to hand over its entire linguistic output to a group of poets?”

Personally

To put it simply, I don’t know how to talk. Better put, I do not know how to become legible. I inhabit these same phrases certain they are unable to do anything much, certainly not whatever it is I asked of them, but unable to concede to a better silence. Speech is a tic, metabolic process, distraction from more present places. ‘I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it.’

Poetically

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| __ . > ‘ , empty paper carries / first marks in/through / cyan ledges of-lines

---; . - , ll ; . side-plastic clear &hard / planks over ground / no-human voice hear , .*~ * , \

Quotationally

Blue notebook No. 10

(as first written in "Golubaja Tetrad'" or "The Blue Notebook")
There lived a redheaded man who had no eyes or ears. He didn’t have hair either, so he was called a redhead arbitrarily. He couldn’t talk because he had no mouth. He had no nose either. He didn’t even have arms or legs. He had no stomach, he had no back, he had no spine, and he had no innards at all. He didn’t have anything. So we don’t even know who we’re talking about. It’s better that we don’t talk about him any more.
January 7, 1937

NOTE
Both translations above are by Matvei Yankelevich, they appear by permission of the translator. They are published in the book TODAY I WROTE NOTHING: THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF DANIIL KHARMS, >New York: Overlook, 2007[in the margins of this text, the tenth entry Kharms made in a blue notebook, he wrote: "Against Kant."]
(Wikilivres.org)

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