Rudolf Ammann

Researcher and designer, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities

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Available for free reuse: hundreds of stock illustrations I created for @improvbot_ai:

https://t.co/1LYZqF1TTS

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@FHHuntress Modern Santa was established by the US cartoonist Thomas Nast (1840–1902), working for Harper's Weekly:

https://t.co/TV4HRNiBA6

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@melissaterras @thomasgpadilla Yahoo originally was a hierarchically structured directory. The 1998 craze for portals -- of which Yahoo was only a part -- consisted in providing news feeds that could be personalised in accordance with user interests. Unlike a magazine, a portal did not generate the content.

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@sgediting @Georgian_Realia @martinxo Plié au Chocolat – French Chocolate and Custard Pastries

https://t.co/RBZjbDKCki

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@sgediting @Georgian_Realia @martinxo The past participle of French 'plier' is 'plié', which also happens to be a noun in English:

https://t.co/oIL7JHiqIt

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ImprovBot was the world's first AI generated Arts Festival programme, tweeting 350 new show blurbs from 7–31 AUG 2020. Produced by The Bot: a recurrent neural network reimagining 2,098,140 words of @edfringe show listings (2011-2019). Feel free to enjoy & recycle all postings!

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@jules_rawlinson Rather than being a musical score, this piece vandalises a network visualisation of commits over time to a programming project: https://t.co/STpInOxoPp. We still need to make up a good excuse for the vandalism.

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@NielsBr Herzliche Glückwünsche zum Geburtstag, Niels!

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#improvbot #illustration

Dataviz deformance: チュンチュン！

https://t.co/w3cygAmhqP

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@sarahthesheepu @ernestopriego @improvbot_ai might (or might not) fit the bill. The illustrations are all a decent size, and they're distributed under a non-restrictive licence (CC-BY-NC) #improvbot

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@jules_rawlinson Thanks, Jules -- feel free to remix them and post the modified illustrations back to #improvbot!

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Now Live! The world's first AI generated Arts Festival programme, tweeting a new show hourly, 7–31 AUG 2020. Produced by The Bot: a recurrent neural network reimagining 2,098,140 words of @edfringe show listings (2011-2019). Respond, remix, critique, and enjoy #improvbot Pls RT!

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@WPDiscover the https://t.co/iHc53TpQn9 site https://t.co/w2iw6G8Wbk launches today. It has been written up by The Next Web:

https://t.co/3mnZBtuBMW

Press release:

https://t.co/focvKPrXVd

Thanks for considering a link from Discover!

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Call me crazy, but I agreed to illustrate a few hundred fictitious comedy show blurbs authored by The Bot, a set of recursive neural networks, as part of the @improvbot_ai project, which launches tomorrow. Sample preview:

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Preview: THE METHODOLOGIAN HANDS

A surreal search for sexual crimes. #improvbot

https://t.co/oUuCaJldE1

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Starting tomorrow, 7 August: @improvbot_ai, an #EdinburghFringe comedy project in which I collaborate with @melissaterras, @gavininglis, @theimproverts, artificial neural networks... and you:

https://t.co/E6cVn1FrYj

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Coming Soon... The world's first AI generated Arts Festival programme. Produced by The Bot: a recurrent neural network reimagining 2,098,140 words of Edinburgh Festival Fringe show listings (2011-2019). Respond, remix, critique, and enjoy...

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Flickr album by The Rare Book Detective: #Fleurons https://t.co/M2gf2LxHtm

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@williac P.S. Loss of the Challenger space shuttle, 1986:

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@williac My pleasure. That butterfly design might be prior art of the GOP elephant logo, right down to the vertically flipped stars: https://t.co/mLe2lohfGz

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@williac https://t.co/VM2spKDPiP
https://t.co/vk02totZT9
https://t.co/rqBv8psnpS

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@williac "The company created many items with vote logos on them like this button and interestingly, a record by The Fourth Room titled Vote that uses the same image"

https://t.co/zvWQHoKKE4

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@williac https://t.co/lWh3wm8w6I