John Cayley
Biographic Data
| ID | 283595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Cayley |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Cayley |
| SIGNATURE | CAYLEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5219-1537 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age
Computational art Explorations of Linguistic Possibility Spaces: Comparative translingual close readings of Daniel C. Howe’s Automatype and Radical of the Vertical Heart 忄
A code-critical close reading of two related works by Daniel C. Howe. The artist's Automatype is an installation that visualizes and sonifies minimal-distance paths between English words and thus explores a possibility space that is relatively familiar to western readers, not only readers of English but also readers of any language which uses Latin letters to compose the orthographic word-level elements of its writing system . In Radical of the V…
Breathe
breathe John Cayley (bio) To view the current version of John Cayley's digital work "breathe" as a standalone website, please visit https://work.programmatology.com/breathe/. Use of a Chrome browser is advised, and, for mobiles, the site has only been tested for iOS devices. On the desktop, switching to full screen will avoid having to manually resize the browser window to a more or less 16:9 aspect. To view Cayley's notebook with digital code, v…
Book, Text, Medium: Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age
Differences that Make No Difference and Ambiguities that Do
Any of us who may have been anxious, when considering this book, that it might threaten to assail some preferred depth or distance or dimension of reading—close, distant, symptomatic, surface, deep, hyper, machine—can allay our fears. Eve's treatment is evenhanded, well-informed, and comprehensively contextualized. It seems, initially, a remarkable proposition that “computational formalism” should be applied to a single, ostensibly unitary, long-…
Reconfiguration: Symbolic Image and Language Art
‘Reconfiguration: Symbolic Image and Language Art’ proposes an analytic and theoretical framework for computational aesthetic practices in terms of ‘reconfiguration’ and its derivatives, ‘reconfigurationism’ and ‘reconfigurationist’. Digitization of the media of aesthetic practices has rendered these practices subject to software architectures derived from computational applications that, for the most part, have had little regard for aesthetics a…
The Readers Project: Procedural Agents and Literary Vectors
The Readers Project is an aesthetically oriented system of software entities designed to explore the culture of human reading. These entities, or “readers,” navigate texts according to specific reading strategies based upon linguistic feature analysis and real-time probability models harvested from search engines. As such, they function as autonomous text generators, writing machines that become visible within and beyond the typographic dimension…
Screen Writing: A Practice‐based, EuroRelative Introduction to Electronic Literature and Poetics
I write from London, using media, so‐called ‘new’ or ‘digital’ media, literally ‘electronic’ media. 1 In an important sense, I am no longer unusual in this. Most of the writers represented here wil
Hallucination and Coherence
Commentary| August 01 2002 Hallucination and Coherence John Cayley; John Cayley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Yang Lian Yang Lian Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2002) 10 (3): 773–784. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-10-3-773 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon To…
Book Unbound
Book Unbound" is a "collocational cybertext," a self-assembling poetic collage that can be read in two ways: either automatically in the "bound" mode, or in an "unbound" mode that allows readers to extract and recycle words from its recombinant text stream. The present version is a HyperCard stack (Mac only, HyperCard program not required) available for downloading. --Editor
Looking out from Death: From the Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square
Hallucination and Coherence
Commentary| August 01 2002 Hallucination and Coherence John Cayley; John Cayley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Yang Lian Yang Lian Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2002) 10 (3): 773–784. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-10-3-773 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon To…
Looking out from Death: From the Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square
Book Unbound
Book Unbound" is a "collocational cybertext," a self-assembling poetic collage that can be read in two ways: either automatically in the "bound" mode, or in an "unbound" mode that allows readers to extract and recycle words from its recombinant text stream. The present version is a HyperCard stack (Mac only, HyperCard program not required) available for downloading. --Editor
Hallucination and Coherence
Commentary| August 01 2002 Hallucination and Coherence John Cayley; John Cayley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Yang Lian Yang Lian Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2002) 10 (3): 773–784. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-10-3-773 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon To…
Screen Writing: A Practice‐based, EuroRelative Introduction to Electronic Literature and Poetics
I write from London, using media, so‐called ‘new’ or ‘digital’ media, literally ‘electronic’ media. 1 In an important sense, I am no longer unusual in this. Most of the writers represented here wil
The Readers Project: Procedural Agents and Literary Vectors
The Readers Project is an aesthetically oriented system of software entities designed to explore the culture of human reading. These entities, or “readers,” navigate texts according to specific reading strategies based upon linguistic feature analysis and real-time probability models harvested from search engines. As such, they function as autonomous text generators, writing machines that become visible within and beyond the typographic dimension…
Reconfiguration: Symbolic Image and Language Art
‘Reconfiguration: Symbolic Image and Language Art’ proposes an analytic and theoretical framework for computational aesthetic practices in terms of ‘reconfiguration’ and its derivatives, ‘reconfigurationism’ and ‘reconfigurationist’. Digitization of the media of aesthetic practices has rendered these practices subject to software architectures derived from computational applications that, for the most part, have had little regard for aesthetics a…
Differences that Make No Difference and Ambiguities that Do
Any of us who may have been anxious, when considering this book, that it might threaten to assail some preferred depth or distance or dimension of reading—close, distant, symptomatic, surface, deep, hyper, machine—can allay our fears. Eve's treatment is evenhanded, well-informed, and comprehensively contextualized. It seems, initially, a remarkable proposition that “computational formalism” should be applied to a single, ostensibly unitary, long-…
Computational art Explorations of Linguistic Possibility Spaces: Comparative translingual close readings of Daniel C. Howe’s Automatype and Radical of the Vertical Heart 忄
A code-critical close reading of two related works by Daniel C. Howe. The artist's Automatype is an installation that visualizes and sonifies minimal-distance paths between English words and thus explores a possibility space that is relatively familiar to western readers, not only readers of English but also readers of any language which uses Latin letters to compose the orthographic word-level elements of its writing system . In Radical of the V…
Breathe
breathe John Cayley (bio) To view the current version of John Cayley's digital work "breathe" as a standalone website, please visit https://work.programmatology.com/breathe/. Use of a Chrome browser is advised, and, for mobiles, the site has only been tested for iOS devices. On the desktop, switching to full screen will avoid having to manually resize the browser window to a more or less 16:9 aspect. To view Cayley's notebook with digital code, v…
Book, Text, Medium: Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age
The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age
Computer Science (7 works) · Art (4 works) · Digital Humanities and Scholarship (4 works) · World Wide Web (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Poetry (3 works) · Programming language (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Digital Games and Media (2 works) · Download (2 works)