Action Score Generator - Multiple Exhibitions
- Submitting institution
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York St John University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 490
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Modular Form Symposium, University of Roehampton, London
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
- March
- Year of first exhibition
- 2014
- URL
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http://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/4838/
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This project researched the techniques and methodologies of chance-based and procedural writing within the context of Fluxus and digital poetics or e-poetry. The project was created as a website and later was published as a book by experimental art and poetry publisher If p then q, Manchester. The publication contained an essay about the work as an afterword by Dr. Mark Leahy entitled 'An Action Movie: Reading Time Code Action’.
The project investigated the relationships between the uses of language on the page, on the screen and in performance.
The website displays the 'Action Score Generator’, an online writing machine that writes and re-writes an infinite series of instructions for performance. The writing machines uses source words collected by collecting and processing previously performed tasks by artist Nathan Walker between 2006 – 2014. The machine produces an instruction every six-seconds that contains six words, presented in reference to the Fluxus idea of an event score. Event scores build on musical scores but instead of notation they contain instructions.
The event scores are arranged into poetic, six-word-length instructions, and align performance objects, tasks, verbs, and spaces in a playful way. These instructions are reorganised endlessly by a JavaScript code. This code presents a second text beneath the surface of the screen and is a direct reference to the first electronic text generator
The Action Score Generator was exhibited at the Poetry Library (London) as part of the exhibition ‘Conceptual Poetics’ alongside artists including Fiona Banner, Simon Cutts, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Yoko Ono.
The work was presented as part of Modular Form Symposium at Roehampton University. It was also presented as part of the performance and technology working group at Theatre and Performance Research Association Annual Conference. Partly funded by the research committee at York St John University.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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