{"id":4660,"date":"2018-07-25T18:18:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T22:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=4660"},"modified":"2018-07-26T20:20:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T00:20:18","slug":"exquisite-corpses-are-now-on-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2018\/07\/exquisite-corpses-are-now-on-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Exquisite Corpses are Now on Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/review.vassar.edu\/issue\/2018\/digital\/nick-montfort\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/From_Exquisite_Corpses.png\" alt=\"&quot;Some red pendulums will quickly consume the grim president ...&quot;\" width=\"497\" height=\"204\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4661\" style=\"clear:both\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/From_Exquisite_Corpses.png 497w, https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/From_Exquisite_Corpses-300x123.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1984, a type-in program appeared in the French <em>Hebdogiciel<\/em>\u2014no surprise there, since this weekly publication was all about type-in BASIC programs! This one, however, was not entirely unlike the games and mathematical recreations that typically appeared; it did, however, have an explicit link to a French 20th Century avant-garde movement, Surrealism. The program, by Philippe Henri, was for the TRS-80 and called \u201cCadavres Exquis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ariane Savoire and I have translated this program to English (as \u201cExquisite Corpses\u201d) are very pleased that <a href=\"https:\/\/review.vassar.edu\/issue\/2018\/digital\/nick-montfort\/\">the <em>Vassar Review<\/em> has just published the edition we have prepared,<\/a> which includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A working version of both French and English programs running in an in-browser TRS-80 emulator,<\/li>\n<li>The BASIC code for both French and English programs, and<\/li>\n<li>A high-quality scan of the program as it originally appeared in <em>Hebdogiciel.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I spoke about our work on this program in my talk \u201cPreserving Corpses with Emulation\u201d at the Stanford Software Preservation Workshop, February 22, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit the site and run this classic program for yourself. When you do, note that you must <strong>click on the black emulator area<\/strong> to give it focus and <strong>press a key<\/strong> each time you want a new sentence. That&#8217;s how the original program ran; we have not modified the way it functions. In some ways the program does seem a bit obsolete. It refers to Czechoslovakia, for instance. You can see from the included snapshots that almost 25 years later, however, \u201cExquisite Corpses\u201d maintains some relevance!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/review.vassar.edu\/issue\/2018\/digital\/nick-montfort\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/From_Cadavres_Exquis.png\" alt=\"Cadavre Exquis\" width=\"524\" height=\"653\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4664\" style=\"clear:both\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/From_Cadavres_Exquis.png 524w, https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/From_Cadavres_Exquis-241x300.png 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1984, a type-in program appeared in the French Hebdogiciel\u2014no surprise there, since this weekly publication was all about type-in BASIC programs! This one, however, was not entirely unlike the games and mathematical recreations that typically appeared; it did, however, have an explicit link to a French 20th Century avant-garde movement, Surrealism. The program, by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2018\/07\/exquisite-corpses-are-now-on-display\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exquisite Corpses are Now on Display&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,74,53,4,51],"class_list":["post-4660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-basic","tag-creative-computing","tag-francais","tag-poetry","tag-translation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4660"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4666,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}