https://nickm.com/post/2012/07/taroko-gorge-the-vandalism-continues/ Nick Montfort Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:33:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://nickm.com/post/2012/07/taroko-gorge-the-vandalism-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-14016 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:33:16 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=2511#comment-14016 Judy, thanks very much for your comment and your beer-related contribution! I have added it to the “official” Taroko Gorge.

]]> https://nickm.com/post/2012/07/taroko-gorge-the-vandalism-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-13973 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:57:43 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=2511#comment-13973 From My Writers Notebook –September 10, 2012 on the subject
of commented code as “notation” for electronic literature:
“Javascript is widely used, and if a script was discovered 100 years later — Nick Montfort’s Taroko Gorge, for instance — a scholar of the future could probably set it running pretty easily, or convert it to run on a contemporary computer. Although Montfort and Stephanie Strickland’s Sea and Spar Between is more extensively commented, as an experiment, I took a look at Nick’s elegant code for Taroko Gorge, a generative poem/script — the reuse of which has become an electronic literature tradition. No additional score would be needed to restore Taroko Gorge, I decided. Additionally, a scholar might soon find that he or she was inspired to recreate another work based on this code. Indeed, I spent several happy hours altering the code a little to create Scholars
Contemplate the Irish Beer — http://www.artcalifornia.net/scholars_contemplate.html
(Thanks, Nick!)”

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