poemario.js (Porto, 2014-2023)
poemario.js (Porto, 2014-2023)
javascript lib to program texts (poems, narratives, letters, etc) according to combinatory processes. Most of the poems listed in "Works" use poemario.js by Rui Torres (concept) and Nuno Ferreira (programming).
https://telepoesis.net/curso-breve/tutorial.html
Poemário (Porto, 2008-2023)
WordPress blog with a record of readings created through texts programmed with poemario.js. Community of readers (posts), Rui Torres (WP), Nuno Ferreira (WordPress, perl, PHP).
https://telepoesis.net/poemario
É preciso dizer «Alberto | Álvaro | Bernardo | Fernando | Ricardo» em vez de dizer «Caeiro | de Campos | Soares | Pessoa | Reis» (Porto, 2023)
Cesariny and the Virgem Negra. Choose a lexicon: Alberto Caeiro (13310 words), Álvaro de Campos (39737 words), Bernardo Soares (150972 words), Fernando Pessoa (40509 words), Ricardo Reis (9939 words).
o exacerbar da solidão ou mil formas de (tentar) preencher um vazio (Porto, 2022)
Artistic project with computer generated text. Staging and production: NAPALM (Companhia de Teatro Dança em Conjunto ou Alternadamente). Sónia Granja Barbosa (Selection of texts and lexicon), Rui Torres (xml). Created with poemario.js.
Staging > 18-20 March 2022: NAPALM (Companhia de Teatro Dança em Conjunto ou Alternadamente), Artistic Direction by Jaime C. Soares, Teatro Helena Sá e Costa, Porto.
https://telepoesis.net/o-exacerbar-da-solidao
Tópicos cartesianos atípicos (Porto, 2020)
Generative textual philosophy from four fundamental propositions of René Descartes. Paulo Alexandre e Castro (selection of propositions and creation of the lexicon), Rui Torres (xml, html). Created with poemario.js.
Installation/Exhibition > 27 November 2020: ARTeFACTo, Artech International Conference, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal, org. CIAC - Research Centre in Arts and Communication.
https://telepoesis.net/cartesianismos/index.html
Poemas no meio do caminho (Porto, 2020)
Programmed text with sound. Rui Torres (xml, html), Luís Aly (sound) and Nuno M Cardoso (voice). Poems originally programmed in Flash/ActionScript (Porto, 2008), recreated in 2020 with poemario.js.
https://telepoesis.net/caminho_js
brin cadeiras (Porto, 2020)
Programmed text with sound, based on texts by Salette Tavares and lexicon of Salette Tavares and Fernando Pessoa. Rui Torres (xml, html), Américo Rodrigues (voice). Poems originally programmed in Flash/ActionScript (Porto, 2010), recreated in 2020 with poemario.js.
https://telepoesis.net/brincadeiras_js
Amor de Clarice v.2 (Porto, 2020)
Programmed text with sound. Text by Rui Torres based on the short story «Amor» by Clarice Lispector and with her lexicon. Rui Torres (xml, html), Carlos Morgado and Luís Aly (sound), Nuno M Cardoso (voice). Poems originally programmed in Flash/ActionScript (Porto, 2008), recreated in 2020 with poemario.js.
https://telepoesis.net/amorclarice/v2_js
Húmus Poema Contínuo (Porto, 2020)
Programmed text with sound, based on «Húmus» by Herberto Helder (1967) and «Húmus» by Raul Brandão (1917). Rui Torres (xml, html, sound), Luís Aly (sound), Nuno M Cardoso (voice). Poems originally programmed in Flash/ActionScript (Chapel Hill and Porto, 1999-2008), recreated in 2020 with poemario.js.
https://telepoesis.net/humus_js
1 corvo nunca mais (Porto, 2020)
Programmed text, from Fernando Pessoa's translation of «The Raven», by Edgar A. Poe. Rui Torres (xml, html), Luís Aly (sound), Nuno M Cardoso (voice). Poems originally programmed in Flash/ActionScript (Porto, 2009), recreated in 2020 with poemario.js.
https://telepoesis.net/pessoa_js
Do Peso e da Leveza (Porto, 2020)
Programmed text with sound, based on texts and lexicon by Fernando Pessoa and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andersen. Rui Torres (xml, html), Luís Carlos Petry (images), Luís Aly (sound). Poems originally programmed in Flash/ActionScript (Porto, 2009), recreated in 2020 with poemario.js.
https://telepoesis.net/dopesoedaleveza_js
Cantiga (Porto, 2020)
Programmed text with poem «Cantiga» by Salette Tavares, in dialogue with the lexicon of medieval songs. Rui Torres (xml, html). Poems originally programmed in Flash/ActionScript (Porto and Lisbon, 2012), recreated in 2020 with poemario.js.
https://telepoesis.net/cantiga_js
Oralengas (Porto and Coimbra, 2018-2020)
Three programmed texts with animated images by Costa Pinheiro and three reading levels: a digital album, for 4 years old; a generative poem based on traditional Portuguese oral literature, for ages 6; and an interactive narrative, for ages 11 and up. 'Murals and Literature' project team: Ana Maria Machado, Ana Albuquerque e Aguilar, Júlia Andrade, Luís Lucas Pereira, Rui Torres, Thales Estefani. Texts programmed with poemario.js by Rui Torres and Nuno Ferreira.
https://luislucaspereira.net/costapinheiro/index.html
https://telepoesis.net/oralengas
fakephone4a(n)droid (Porto and Barcelona, 2019)
Mixed-media object: cards, typography, phone with transparent code and poetry, web app. Rui Torres (xml, html), Luís Aly (sound), Nuno M Cardoso (voice), text-to-speech (voices). App web created with poemario.js.
Installations/Exhibitions > 7-12 May 2019: nit sonhoras - exhibition & poetry event, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain.
https://telepoesis.net/fakephone
Lost in Translation (Porto, Lancaster and Barcelona, 2019)
Adventures in automatic translation and text-to-speech. Rui Torres (xml, html), Luís Aly (sound), text-to-speech (voices). Created with poemario.js.
https://telepoesis.net/curso-breve/rui-torres/index.html
Abílio-José Santos: «era uma vez uma gata» and «interrogações» (Porto and Maia, 2019)
Reinterpretations of works by Abílio-José Santos. Rui Torres (xml, html), Bruno Ministro and Diogo Marques (xml), Anabela Garcia (voice). Created with poemario.js.
Installations/Exhibitions > 4 July - 8 September 2019: re:A-JS (deve ler-se reage-se), curated by Rui Torres, Diogo Marques and Bruno Ministro, part of: Abílio-José Santos. Revelação: Concretos e Visuais, Fórum da Maia / Centr’Arte, Maia, Portugal.
https://telepoesis.net/abilio/index.html
Árvore (Porto, 2018)
Inspired in poems by António Gedeão, António Ramos Rosa, Fernando Pessoa, Herberto Helder, Miguel Torga and Ruy Belo. Lexicon based on the flora of Northern Portugal. Rui Torres (xml, html), Luís Aly (sound). Created with poemario.js.
Installations/Exhibitions > May 2019: Villa Moraes, Ponte de Lima || June 2019: headquarters of the InterMunicipal Community of Alto Minho, Viana do Castelo || 17 May 2023: Digital humanities and sustainability, in: "Roots of Humanities, under the sign of sustainability", Festival SER HUMANO - Festival das Humanidades, org. CODA / UP, FLUP I&D and Botanical Garden of the University of Porto, Biodiversity Gallery.
Cushioned Fakescripts (Porto and Kassel, 2017)
Object with printed fragments of code from different programming languages, appropriated and adapted to include poetry. Rui Torres (text-code), Friedrich W. Block (translation).
Installations/Exhibitions > 30 August - 6 October 2019: POESIS – Sprachkunst | Language Art, Curated by Friedrich W. Block, Kunsttempel Kassel, Germany || 14 September - 15 October 2017: p0es1s – postdigital, Language art, Curated by Friedrich W. Block, Kunsttempel, Kassel, Germany.
http://p-dpa.net/work/fakescripts
a separação:: a(n)estesia (Berkeley and Porto, 2016)
Programmed text with sound, appropriating advertising speeches, soundbites, slogans, advertisements and various jingles. Rui Torres (xml, html, sound). Created with poemario.js.
Installations/Exhibitions >22 November 2023 - 21 January 2024: Portuguese Experimental Poetry, Gallery Mezanino, CAIXA Cultural Curitiba, Brazil || 21-22 April 2020: World Creativity Day 2020 || 21 April 2019: World Creativity Day 2019, ZERO Box Lodge, Porto. || 17 October - 16 December 2018: Portuguese Experimental Poetry, CAIXA Cultural Brasília, Brazil.
https://telepoesis.net/aseparacao
Estou Vivo e Escrevo Sol (Berkeley, Bremen, Barcelona and Porto, 2016)
Programmed texts inspired by António Ramos Rosa: with words bodies silences and shadows. Rui Torres (xml, html), Luís Aly (sound), Nuno M Cardoso (voice). Created with poemario.js.
https://telepoesis.net/estou-vivo-e-escrevo-sol
Fantasia breve, a palavra-espuma (Porto, 2016)
The anagram, for (and from) Ana Hatherly. 9 texts in metamorphosis (fantasia breve: brief fantasy), 9 poems in indetermination (palavra-espuma: foam-word). Rui Torres (xml, html), Nuno Ferreira (js). Created with an adapted version of poemario.js.
Installations/Exhibitions > 30 June - 5 July 2016: Festival Silêncio, ReAnagramas, Lisbon, Curated by Fernando Aguiar.
https://www.telepoesis.net/palavra-espuma
e-lit jazz (Porto and Victoria, 2016)
Re-situating electronic literature (e-lit) in terms of jazz, but also riffing on e-lit, approaching e-lit as jazz. Theoretical performance in multiple forms: improvisation, seventeen-paragraph essay on e-lit. Rui Torres (xml, html), Sandy Baldwin (text, performance), Nuno Ferreira (wheel_of_fortunAly), Luís Aly (sound). Created with poemario.js.
https://telepoesis.net/elitjazz
O fim do princípio de... (Porto, 2016)
In response to an invitation from Pedro Eiras, org. Seminários do Fim do Mundo (Série IV, 2016, FLUP). Interrogations, provocations... the ends as metamorphosis; the programmed and multiple text as door (solstice), passage, new beginning. The end of the beginning of the end of... Rui Torres (xml, html). Created with poemario.js.
https://telepoesis.net/fimdomundo
Oceanografias (a memória da água) (Berkeley, 2016)
Reinterpretation of «Oceanografias (a memória da água)» by Antero de Alda, originally programmed on a microcomputer Sinclair ZX Spectrum (Sever do Vouga, 1/1/1986). Rui Torres (xml, html). Created with poemario.js.
https://po-ex.net/taxonomia/materialidades/digitais/antero-de-alda-oceanografias-a-memoria-da-agua
// A fakescript for your faked life (Porto and Berkeley, 2016)
Just a simple and fake script in Basic, Java, C and Perl. Created for Media Instáveis. Rui Torres (concept and textual programming) and Nuno Ferreira (textual programming).
Installations/Exhibitions > 17 April - 21 May 2016: FAZ TU MESMX - ARTE POR INSTRUÇÃO, Curated by UNSTABLE MEDIA (Ana Carvalho, Margarida Carvalho, Sofia Ponte and paula roush), Sputenik the Window, Porto, Portugal.
https://telepoesis.net/fakescript.html
Fakescripts para Ponte de Lima (Porto and Ponte de Lima, 2016)
Colorful poems printed on transparent adhesive paper for insertion on garden benches created in the context of Lethes Art (Ponte de Lima, 2016 and 2017). Rui Torres (concept and textual programming), Nuno Ferreira (textual programming).
Installations/Exhibitions > 1 July - 31 August 2016: Re-Cognition, Curated by Isabel Patim, ART-MAP, Ponte de Lima, Portugal.
https://telepoesis.net/fakescripts
Gerador de Homeóstatos (Porto, 2015)
Inspired by the visual poems Homeóstatos by José-Alberto Marques. Programmed text with homeostat generator from selected lexicon. Rui Torres (concept, xml), Nuno Ferreira (html, js). Created in the context of the «Homenagem aos Homeóstatos de José-Alberto Marques» by the PO.EX Digital Archive. Created with an adapted version of the poemario.js.
https://www.telepoesis.net/homeostatos
https://po-ex.net/taxonomia/materialidades/digitais/rui-torres-nuno-ferreira-gerador-de-homeostatos
Cyberliterature (1977-1993) (Porto, 2015)
Poems originally programmed by Pedro Barbosa in 1976 using text generation programs «Permuta» and «Texal» in Fortran, Algol, Neat, Basic and BCPL. Rui Torres (xml), Carlos Amaral (js, html, css, translation). Created with an adapted version of poemario.js.
https://collection.eliterature.org/3/work.html?work=cyberliterature
https://www.po-ex.net/pedrobarbosa/PB_ELC3.html
Álea e Vazio (Porto, 2014)
Texts by E. M. de Melo e Castro originally published in «Álea e Vazio» (1971). Rui Torres (xml, html). Created with poemario.js.
Installations/Exhibitions > 3-5 November 2016: Shapeshifting Texts - An exhibition about electronic and experimental literature, University of Bremen, Germany, Curated by Daniela Côrtes Maduro || 23-26 April 2016: Anthropoetry: Modern Expression of the Human Condition, National Poetry Month, Vancouver Community Library, Vancouver, WA, USA || 28 January – 10 April 2016: La paraula pixelada. La literatura a l’era digital, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain || 1-31 August 2015: p2p: Polish-Portuguese E-Lit, ELO 2015 exhibition Decentering: Global Electronic Literature, 3,14 gallery Bergen, Norway, Curated by Álvaro Seiça and Piotr Marecki.
Poeta Artificial (Porto, 2014)
Parody with the news broadcast by UC and Lusa on 20/03/2014: "PoeTryMe: researcher from the U. Coimbra creates the first Portuguese «artificial poet». Hugo Oliveira, researcher from the University of Coimbra, created PoeTryMe, a computer system that generates poems in less than a minute"... Rui Torres (xml, html). Created with poemario.js.
https://telepoesis.net/poeta_artificial
Amor de Clarice (Chapel Hill and Porto, 1999-2005)
Text by Rui Torres based on «Amor» by Clarice Lispector. Computer-animated, interactive poetry with sound and video. Rui Torres (Flash/AS), Carlos Morgado (music), Luis Aly (sound), Ana Carvalho (video), Nuno M Cardoso (voice).
https://telepoesis.net/amorclarice
(URL of the original, obsolete Flash version)
https://conifer.rhizome.org/elo/amor-de-clarice/20210426193650$br:chrome:76/http://www.amordeclarice.com/amordeclarice/index.html
(Flash version restored by the Electronic Literature Lab with Conifer)
https://po-ex.net/taxonomia/materialidades/digitais/rui-torres-amor-de-clarice
(Images and sounds)
http://collection.eliterature.org/2/works/torres_amordeclarice.html
(Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2)
Poemário (editor de poesia combinatória) (Porto, 2008)
GUI editor for creating combinatorial poems, with the possibility of recording them in a poem gallery on telepoesis.net. Resources used: Flash, Actionscript 3, perl, PHP. Rui Torres (design and concept), Nuno F. Ferreira (programming).
Cantiga (Porto and Lisbon, 2012)
Dialogue between medieval songs (the poetry of troubadourism), Salette Tavares, and programmed text. Design, concept and textual programming: Rui Torres. Background image: Drawings and inscriptions from the 15th and 16th centuries of the Cancioneiro da Ajuda. Fonts used: AuldMagick font (2011, AgaSilva) and Mawns Graffiti (2010, Måns Grebäck). Lexicon used in textual combinatorics: Medieval Galician Portuguese Songs (online database + Institute of Medieval Studies, FCSH/NOVA).
https://telepoesis.net/cantiga
(URL of the original, obsolete Flash version)
PoemAds - Sob o signo da devoração (Porto, 2012)
Programmed text using advertising slogans. Corpus: advertising slogans for butter, beers, water, cars, soft drinks, banks, credit cards, shampoos, supermarkets. Lexicon: Other advertising slogans available online. Fonts used: The League of Moveable Type's Open Fonts. Resources used: Flash/Actionscript. Collaborators: Nuno Ferreira.
https://telepoesis.net/poemads
(URL of the original, obsolete Flash version)
http://anthology.elmcip.net/works/sob-o-signo-da-devoracao.html
(In: Anthology of European Electronic Literature)
8 brincadeiras para Salette Tavares (Porto, 2010)
Programmed text, animation, based on texts by Salette Tavares and lexicon by Salette Tavares and Fernando Pessoa. Resources used: Flash/Actionscript. Collaborators: Rodrigo Melo, Nuno F. Ferreira.
Installations/Exhibitions > 21 março 2010: Salette Tavares, Desalinho das Linhas, World Poetry Day, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal.
https://telepoesis.net/brincadeiras
(URL of the original, obsolete Flash version)
Streamflow Conditions: Poems in the Middle of the Road (Porto, 2009)
Programmed text, with sound, based on texts and lexicon by Rui Torres, Fernando Pessoa and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andersen. Part of the Streamflow Conditions event curated by Judd Morrissey for Subito Press. Resources used: Flash/Actionscript, Twitter API. Collaborators: Nuno F. Ferreira (programming) and Luís Carlos Petry (images).
https://telepoesis.net/streamflowconditions
(URL of the original, obsolete Flash version)
Do Peso e da Leveza (Porto, 2009)
Programmed text, with sound, based on texts and lexicon by Fernando Pessoa and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andersen. Invitation of the 2009 Convent Workshops, Conversas à Volta do Peso e da Leveza, Montemor-o-Novo. Resources used: Flash/Actionscript. Collaborators: Nuno F. Ferreira (programming) and Luís Carlos Petry (images).
https://telepoesis.net/dopesoedaleveza
(URL of the original, obsolete Flash version)
Um Corvo Nunca Mais (Porto, 2009)
Programmed text, with sound, based on Fernando Pessoa's translation of "The Raven", by Edgar A. Poe. Invitation of the Nucleus for the Study of Modernism in the Portuguese Language at UFP. Resources used: Flash/Actionscript. Collaborators: Nuno F. Ferreira (programming), Nuno M. Cardoso (voice) and Luís Carlos Petry (images).
https://telepoesis.net/pessoa/menu.html
(URL of the original, obsolete Flash version)
Húmus Poema Contínuo (Porto, 2008)
Programmed text, with sound, based on «Húmus» by Herberto Helder (1967) and «Húmus» by Raul Brandão (1917). Resources used: Flash, Actionscript, XML. Collaborations: Programming by Nuno F. Ferreira, Sound by Luís Aly & Rui Torres, Voice of Nuno M. Cardoso. Also published on CD-ROM (improved version) in the book Herberto Helder Leitor by Raul Brandão (Porto, Ed. UFP, 2010).
https://telepoesis.net/humus/humus_index.html
(URL of the original, obsolete Flash version)
https://telepoesis.net/humuspoemacontinuo/humus.html
(URL of Flash version published on CD-ROM, obsolete)
Poemas no meio do caminho (Porto, 2008)
Programmed text, with sound. Resources used: Flash/Actionscript. Collaborations: Nuno F. Ferreira (programming), Luís Aly (sound), Nuno M. Cardoso (voice), Luís Carlos Petry (images). 4t Premi Internacional "Ciutat de Vinaròs" de Literatura Digital.
Installations/Exhibitions > 1-9 September 2018: Máquinas de Escritura, Galería Libertad, Querétaro, Hay Festival / Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico || 11 March - 2 September 2016: No Legacy || Literatura Eletrónica, Relocating Literature in Media, Blending Languages, Unearthing Literary Archeologies, Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, Doe Library, Curated by Alex Saum-Pascual and Élika Ortega || 23-26 April 2016: Anthropoetry: Modern Expression of the Human Condition, National Poetry Month, Vancouver Community Library, Vancouver, WA || 1-31 August 2015: p2p: Polish-Portuguese E-Lit, ELO 2015 exhibition Decentering: Global Electronic Literature, 3,14 gallery in Bergen, Norway, Curated by Álvaro Seiça and Piotr Marecki || 14-15 May 2015: Language and the Interface, in: International Conference 'Digital Literary Studies', University of Coimbra, Curated by Daniela Côrtes Maduro, Ana Marques da Silva and Diogo Marques || 2-20 November 2013: Repurposing in Electronic Literature, DIGGallery, Košice, Slovakia, Curated by María Mencía e Zuzana Husárová, Art directing by Richard Kitta & DIG || 1 July - 30 September 2009: XV Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal.
https://telepoesis.net/caminho
(URL of the original, obsolete Flash version)
https://collection.eliterature.org/2/works/torres_poemas_caminho.html
(Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2)
Amor de Clarice (v.2) (Porto, 2008)
Programmed text, sound, animated text. Resources used: Flash, Actionscript, XML. Collaborations: Nuno F. Ferreira (Programming), Carlos Morgado & Luís Aly (sound), Nuno M. Cardoso (voice). Texts by Rui Torres and Clarice Lispector.
https://telepoesis.net/amorclarice/v2/amor_index.html
(URL of the original, obsolete Flash version)
Poemas encontrados (Porto, 2007)
Based on (texts and ideas by) António Aragão. Produced within the scope of the PO.EX CD-ROM project as an experience with Typography, collage, RSS. Resources used: Flash, Actionscript, PHP. Collaborators: Jared Tarbel, Nuno F. Ferreira (programming).
Amor-mundo ou a vida esse sonho triste (Sao Paulo, Beijing and Porto, 2006)
Animated text, sound. Resources Used: Flash, Actionscript, XML. Collaborators: Jared Tarbel (programming), Filipe Valpereiro and Nuno F. Ferreira (sound programming), Sérgio Bairon and Luís Aly (sound), Nuno M. Cardoso (voice), Qiu Keman (translation, voice). Text by Rui Torres based on poems by Florbela Espanca.
Installations/Exhibitions > 8 December 2006: Cyberpoetry exhibition, Festa da Poesia 2006, Biblioteca Municipal Florbela Espanca, Matosinhos, Portugal.
https://telepoesis.net/amor-mundo
(URL of the original, obsolete Flash version)
https://po-ex.net/taxonomia/materialidades/digitais/rui-torres-amor-mundo-ou-a-vida
(Images and Videos)
http://www.revistainteract.pt/memory/14/lab/ruitorres/index.html
(In: Revista Interact, obsoleta)
Mar de Sophia (São Paulo and Porto, 2005)
Programmed text, sound, animated text. Resources Used: Flash, Actionscript, XML, PHP, python. Collaborators: Nuno F. Ferreira (programming), Filipe Valpereiro (sound programming), Sérgio Bairon, Luís Aly (sound), Nuno M. Cardoso (voice). Texts by Sophia Andresen & Lewis Carroll.
https://telepoesis.net/mardesophia
(URL of the original, obsolete Flash version)
Tema procura-se (Porto, 2004)
Programmed text, with sound. First work exploring the combinatorial technique in digital media, integrating it into animated multimedia poetry. Resources Used: Flash, Actionscript, XML. Collaborators: Nuno M. Cardoso (voice).
https://telepoesis.net/tema
(URL of the original, obsolete Flash version)
Untitled (for Ana Mendieta) (Chapel Hill, 1998)
First experiences with animation, interactivity. The ephemeral in Ana Mendieta's art serving as the basis for the first hypermedia questioning about the unarchiveable, or the archive of nothingness, that of silence.
https://telepoesis.net/untitled
(URL of the original, obsolete Flash version)