Comets Love You to the Moon and Back * 106
In this workshop, participants from all over campus helped LabsynthE to create the longest Valentine’s day card. The love letter itself is an accordion-style paper card 0.4 miles long, which stretched from the visitor’s center to the admin building at UT Dallas on February 14th, 2025. The card features NASA images of the day from the last 25 Valentine’s Days, photos we took of the moon, and lyrics from the @kxtradio anti-love song bracket. Comets have written love letters, break up letters, and notes to their future partners on our extraordinary card. We love you to the moon and back, until 12:15 in the afternoon when the whole thing got shredded. It’s a love letter and a break up note, all in one day.
Hug Me! All of Me! At last a bad romance…
In this workshop, participants will create two datasets for playful computation: phrases that appear on conversation heart candies and titles of anti-love songs. During Love Data Week (February 12-16, 2024) we will make computational poetry at the intersection of these two datasets. Charm your valentine with a candy-infused poem, or send your ex poetic spam.
LabSynthE is a laboratory for synthetic and electronic poetry. This workshop will be presented in hybrid form. Join us in the lab, ATC 1.601 or on Teams on one or both days. Email xtine(at)utdallas(dot)edu for a link to the Teams meeting:
Tuesday 2/13 12-1pm Create datasets
Wednesday 2/14 2-3:30pm Write the code and enjoy some candy