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 **//Notes for Participants//**
-The beginnings of **exquisite_code** is detailed here:
+''The beginnings of exquisite_code, as devised by Brendan and Sabrina, are detailed here:''
 http://exquisite-code.com/?action=page&url=history
-The London project is an extreme version which has come about as a result of conversations between Brendan, Jonathan, and Leif in Berlin in June 2009, and in subsequent emails between Brendan, Jonathan and Sabrina.
+''The London project is an extreme version which has come about as a result of conversations between Brendan, Jonathan, and Leif at [[http://www.1010.co.uk/org/breakthrough.html|Breakthrough]] Berlin in June 2009, and in subsequent emails between Brendan, Jonathan and Sabrina.''
+''
 The writing part of the project will run 10am-6pm daily, starting on Monday 15th Feb. and finishing on Friday 19th Feb. at E:vent Gallery.
-The Launch performances will take place 7.30pm - 11.30pm on Sat. 20th Feb. in the upper space of the Gallery building.
+The Launch performances will take place 7.30pm - 11.30pm on Sat. 20th Feb. in the upper space of the Gallery building.''
 A printable map of how to get to the E:vent Gallery is at the foot of this page.
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-**What the writers need**
+**What each writer needs**
-A laptop for the five days
+''A laptop for the five days''
 **What we'll be doing**
-''We'll be sitting around a table in a windowless gallery space, laptops at the ready and all connected via an ethernet hub to the edit-machine, which is, in turn, connected to various forms of real-time display.
+''We'll be sitting around a table in a windowless gallery space with our laptops  connected via an ethernet hub to the edit-machine, which is, in turn, connected to various forms of real-time display.
-On Day One the Writers will begin the project by writing a one line prompt.
+On **''Day One''** the Writers will begin the project by writing a one line prompt.
 The edit-software will then be applied to the 8 prompts submitted and 1 prompt will be selected.
 Writers will then write in response to that prompt, at first in a session lasting 6 minutes.
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 The edit software will be applied again to the 8 prompts, and 1 prompt will be selected.
 Writers will then write in response to the prompt, again in a session of 6 minutes, unless
-writers decide to change the length of the session through talking and agreement.
+writers decide to change the length of the session through agreement or belligerence.
 This process carries on throughout each day for 8 hours.
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 //The basic text-generation cycle is schematized here://
 {{:exquisite_code:diagram_small.jpg|}}
-//The selected text will be deposited in a 'text dump'. From this dump, and including the edit-software code and selected prompts, the life-novel will be made. This will be sent to a formatted template and from this the book will be printed within 24 hours using Print-on-Demand technology. Its hoped that we will have some fifty copies of the book for the Launch on Saturday the 20th Feb.//
+''The selected text will be deposited in a 'text dump'. From this dump, and including the edit-software code and selected prompts, the life-novel will be made. This will be sent to a formatted template and from this the book will be printed within 24 hours using Print-on-Demand technology. Its hoped that we will have some fifty copies of the book for the Launch on Saturday the 20th Feb.''
 **the edit-software**
-''Brendan has written algorithms in Python for editing the text rpoduced after each session. The various routines can be called. Writers can confer to call a specific routine. The default routine is the Classic Random Select.
+''Brendan has written algorithms in Python for editing the text produced after each session. The various routines can be called. Writers can confer to call a specific routine. The default routine is the Classic Random Select.''
-.  The Classic Random Select.  Modified to have some kind of fair-queuing or round-robin selection.
+''
+.  The Classic Random Select.  Modified to have some kind of fair-queuing or round-robin selection.''
-. Burroughs Columnar Cut-up.  Texts are justified to x-amount of columns (typewriter width) and chopped horizontally into thirds.
-These chunks are randomly realigned. [see Ref. below]. Orphaned letter strings will be killed off.
-. Grammatic Convolution.  Randomly selects one input text as the grammatical structure and tags each word with part-of-speech.  Tags the other texts and substitutes the words from the "structure" text with appropriate part-of-speech substitutes from the other "corpus" texts.
+''2. Burroughs Columnar Cut-up.  Texts are justified to x-amount of columns (typewriter width) and chopped horizontally into thirds.
-This would essentially use the random-select process to pick one of the chunks to be the 'structure text'.  The other texts would be used as part-of-speech substitution databases.  Having a static 'structure text' could also be interesting.  We could do several iterations of the same structure, each with different substitutions.  An ad nauseam chapter or "Chomsky Variations".
+These chunks are randomly realigned. [see Ref. below]. Orphaned letter strings will be killed off.''
-. Synonymic/Antonymic Distortion.  Randomly replaces words with synonyms or antonyms from the wordnet database.
+''3. Grammatic Convolution.  Randomly selects one input text as the grammatical structure and tags each word with part-of-speech.  Tags the other texts and substitutes the words from the "structure" text with appropriate part-of-speech substitutes from the other "corpus" texts.''
+''This would essentially use the random-select process to pick one of the chunks to be the 'structure text'.  The other texts would be used as part-of-speech substitution databases.  Having a static 'structure text' could also be interesting.  We could do several iterations of the same structure, each with different substitutions.  An ad nauseam chapter or "Chomsky Variations".''
-. Markovian Gang Chaining.  This one takes all of the texts and builds a statistical index based on word order and then spits out
-words based on probable next words.
 ''
+. Synonymic/Antonymic Distortion.  Randomly replaces words with synonyms or antonyms from the wordnet database.''
-**Day-to-Day**
+''5. Markovian Gang Chaining.  This one takes all of the texts and builds a statistical index based on word order and then spits out
+words based on probable next words.''
-''Coffee etc will be on hand next to the space, and a lunch will be given upstairs at E:vent Gallery once a day. This lunch will be prepared and served by Liam. Food, supplies, and Liam's payment will come from some of the subsistence money allocated (£25/day per person) - the rest will be yours.''
+{{:exquisite_code:london-block-diagram-vsmall.png|}}
+//Process schematic://
+**Day-to-day**
+''Coffee etc will be on hand next to the space, and a lunch will be given upstairs at E:vent Gallery once a day. This lunch will be prepared and served by Liam. Food, supplies, and Liam's payment will come from some of the subsistence money allocated (ie. from the £25/day per person) - the remainder will be yours.''
+''Oyster 7-day travel cards for Zones 1+2 will be provided on the first day''
+''All payments for flights etc will be made on first day''
+''All writers fees will be made in the week''
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 //Art and cybernetics in the supermarket// A.A. Moles in Cybernetics, Art and Ideas, Reinhardt, J. ed. New York Graphic Society. Connecticut. 1971. pp 61-72
 {{:exquisite_code:ex_code_map.png|}}

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