The numbers, one to 50 thousand
A generated book containing the numbers one to fifty thousand as extracted from scanned books
Liza Daly
Portfolio site for Liza Daly, software engineer and procedural digital artist.
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The figure 10 in Gold
An animated digital poem inspired by Charles Demuth's Precisionist painting
Young West - A Sequel to Looking Backward (1894) by Solomon Schindler
A Reform rabbi in Boston authored this surprisingly good sequel to Edward Bellamy's classic utopian, in a uniquely colorful series of editions.
Ethical collaborative storytelling
Developing a set of principles to ensure safety and transparency in generative narrative works.
A letter groove—cut-up artists' books from digitized manuscripts
Producing cut-up images in the style of artists' books from rare and interesting manuscripts using IIIF and OCR
Loma, A Citizen of Venus (1897) by William Windsor
A glowing being from Venus saves the mother of Earth's messiah from drowning in Lake Michigan and lectures the Chicago elite on the virtues of magnetism, the feminine sexual power of outer space, and veganism in this shaggy endorsement of free love and phrenology.
Freeland - A Social Anticipation (1889) by Theodor Hertzka
How a colonialist utopian treatise led to an absurd attempt at founding the perfect society that ended in failure and violence.
The Ostrich for the Defence (1912) by William Henry Hile
An adventure novel and treatise on economic justice as achievable through the raising of ostriches, all an advertisement for a get-rich-slowly scheme.
Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903)—a utopian tale told through a spiritualist
Journeys to the Planet Mars by Sara Weiss—a strangely sincere hoax
Etidorhpa—a hallucinatory 19th century novel about the hollow earth
Etidorhpa by John Uri Lloyd takes the reader on a hallucinogenic journey into the hollow earth.
Unveiling a Parallel—a utopian novel by Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Robinson Merchant
One of the most joyful and sly utopian novels of the 19th century was by a pair of Cedar Rapids women
Her stories—Fictional utopias of 19th century women
Utopian novels teach us about the hopes, fears, and prejudices of women before the modern era---and can still surprise us.
A pickler for the nowing ones
A translator and generator to produce text in the style of A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1802)
Color Problems—Abstract color analysis generator
A generator inspired by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel's 1902 color analysis work
Always fond of the marvelous-The hidden history of Anna Adolph
A journey into the history of the Anglo-American West in search of an eccentric, forgotten author of early science fiction.
The Ballroom
A short 'mutable story' by Liza Daly
Why I love National Novel Generation Month
My favorites from 2017
Interactive marginalia
Design and implementation of the annotation interface in Harmonia
A Physical Book
Undigitization through physics simulation
Harmonia, an interactive story
About the interactive fiction story "Harmonia" by Liza Daly
Machine learning basics for everyone
Simple answers to common questions about AI and machine learning
No solitude in the caves of spring
A computer-generated alliterative poem
The Days Left Forebodings and Water—Generated Blackout Poetry
Generating blackout poetry with code
Stone Harbor, an interactive story
About the interactive fiction story "Stone Harbor" by Liza Daly
Natural language processing for programmers
A four-part series on NLP for programmers
Replay and regret
Choosing your own adventure means sometimes choosing wrong
Box Art Brut—The no-rules design of early computer games
The fertile period of game box art design between 1979 and 1983
Random beauty—The surrealist in the machine
Computer-aided surrealism
SAGA III—Reimplementing the first computer-generated screenplay
SAGA III and the reimplementation of the first computer-generated screenplay
The art of the bug
Failure should be fun
Seraphs—A mysterious generated codex
A computer-generated play on the Voynich Manuscript
23 and me: the complete James Bond
I watched them all so you don't have to.
The job that games do
Why and when we choose to play
First Draft of the Revolution - Artist Statement
Artist statement by Emily Short about the interactive fiction story "First Draft of the Revolution"
First Draft of the Revolution
An interactive epistolary story by Emily Short and Liza Daly