Allison Parrish

Allison Parrish
Born
Bountiful, Utah
NationalityAmerican
Known forPoetry, software engineering, creative coding, game design, electronic literature
Notable workEveryword, Rewordable, Articulations

Allison Parrish is an American poet,[1] software engineer, creative coder, and game designer, notable as one of the most prominent early makers of creative, literary Twitter bots.[2] She was named "Best Maker of Poetry Bots" by The Village Voice in 2016.[3] Parrish has produced a textbook introduction to creative coding in Python, more specifically Processing.py.[4] Parrish holds a BA in Linguistics from UC Berkeley, and a Master of Professional Studies from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), NYU. She has been a Writer-in-Residence in the English Department of Fordham University, 2014–16, and an Assistant Arts Professor at the ITP since 2016.[5]

Selected works

[edit]
  • Everyword. 2007–2014. A conceptual poetic Twitter bot launched 2007 and later published as a book: Parrish, Allison (2015). Everyword: the book. New York: Instar Books. ISBN 978-0-9904528-5-0. This bot tweeted out an alphabetized list of about 100,000 words, one every 30 minutes. Instead of a definition, the entry for that word contains the social media analytics of that tweet.[6] @everyword was one of the first bots to have an ultimate telos, or aim, as well as a clear structure, and a metanarrative as the reactions to each word were substituted for a definition and use of the word.[6]
  • Frankenstein-Genesis, word vectorization, a machine-readable representation[6] mixes two paragraphs from "Frankenstein" and the Bible.[7]
  • Articulations uses an algorithm to draw lines between similar linguistic elements of public domain poetry. [8]
  • Rewordable. 1999–2000. With collaborators Adam Simon and Tim Szetela.[9][10]
  • Parrish, Allison (2018). Articulations. Denver: Counterpath. ISBN 978-1933996653.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Temkin, Daniel (May 31, 2020). "The Hacker Aesthetic of Minimalist Code". Hyperallergic. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
  2. ^ Fernandez, Mariana (October 12, 2017). "What it Means to Be an 'Experimental Computer Poet'". Vice. Archived from the original on October 12, 2019. Retrieved September 19, 2019.
  3. ^ Chiel, Ethan (2016). "Best Maker of Poetry Bots: Allison Parrish". Village Voice. Archived from the original on May 3, 2017. Retrieved September 19, 2019.
  4. ^ Parrish, Allison (2016). Make: getting started with Processing.py. San Francisco: Maker Media. ISBN 978-1457186837.
  5. ^ "Allison Parrish: Assistant Professor". NYU/TISCH. Archived from the original on September 22, 2019. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
  6. ^ a b c "Digging and Sinking and Drifting: Allison Parrish's Machine Poetics - Journal #117". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved July 6, 2024.
  7. ^ "Music 256A Reading Response 9". ccrma.stanford.edu. Retrieved July 6, 2024.
  8. ^ "Interview with Allison Parrish". esoteric.codes. April 17, 2018. Retrieved July 6, 2024.
  9. ^ D'Anastasio, Cecilia (2017). "Five family-friendly board games that aren't monopoly". Kotaku. Archived from the original on August 14, 2020. Retrieved September 19, 2019.
  10. ^ "Lucy Family Institute Fireside Chat Series, Data Poetics: Allison Parrish". Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society. November 11, 2022. Archived from the original on February 2, 2023. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
[edit]


Stub icon

This article about an American writer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allison_Parrish&oldid=1233064683"