Alex Calderwood
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Alex Calderwood
@xenoscope.bsky.social
PhD student | computational media | language arts | writing technology | critical design | new media | games | California
past: journalism | NLP | NYC | MT
future: ¿ installation art | pataphysics | fiction | baking ?
William S. Burroughs famous cut up, alphabetized.

Original: www.ubu.com/papers/burro...
August 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A anti-correcting spellcheck? Work in progress

#vispo #autocorrect #spellcheck #texteditors
August 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Some design recommendations for (chat and autonomous) writing tools
July 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Giving a DIS attendant some nonsense. Phraselette loves made up words.
July 10, 2025 at 8:50 AM
A bit more about the creative word search tools in Phraselette:

The 'Reader' well lets you to mock a panel of readers to examine specific word choice.
July 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
May 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
May 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
MASCHETIC BEGANGES
AESTHETIC DISTANCES
HAREER TRESSES
indecent exposure.

(The above was produced when Alex Calderwood passed Rosmarie Waldrop's distortion of James Camp's poem thorugh Apple Technologies' optical character recognition)
May 15, 2025 at 6:37 AM
lovedrops
May 12, 2025 at 3:30 AM
May 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
articulate? #vispo
February 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
my first typocrystolography photos
February 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Rosmarie Waldrop's Aesthetic Distances

from her 1970 collection Camp Printing (which is incredible)

Probably the closest I've ever felt to having my *new ideas* feel like they have already been had
December 9, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Loving this digital humanities essay!

Computer Generated Books: Metonymic, Metaphoric and Operationalist

By @zachwhalen.bsky.social
October 26, 2024 at 12:23 AM
"Close the book. Open the text."
- Giselle Beiguelman
October 13, 2024 at 3:33 PM
alphabetpoem, nicholas zurbrugg
September 25, 2024 at 8:14 PM
eek
September 25, 2024 at 8:13 PM
a cosmos, thomas a. clark

www.ubu.com/media/text/v...
September 25, 2024 at 7:52 PM
A strange piece of writing I came up with after playing with Wordcraft, which uses an AI writing assistant and a really interesting interface. The personality of the AI in the interface is... a daydreaming student trying to do an impersonation of a gay version of Cormac McCarthy. Pretty great.
April 25, 2024 at 7:48 PM
That led me to this page. Such a quirky page. I love it.
April 10, 2024 at 11:57 PM