Edit the distances

“Edit the distances” is a live coding piece enacted in a special webstage: @maps/ space/moon/ (outsourced). The web browser serves as MainStage for a series of a actions written in Javascript and triggered by the performer and coder Joana Chicau.

In computation linguistics “Edit distance” is a string metric operation, the edit distance between two words is “the minimum number of single-character edits (insertions, deletions or substitutions) required to change one word into the other.” [more info at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_distance].

This piece explores the distance between words and its meaning, the space and the text, objects and functions, language, technique and imagination ...  

 

Date
18.05.
Start
22
00
End
24
00
Location
Format
Performance
Contributor(s)

Deutsche Beschreibung

“Edit the distances” is a live coding piece enacted in a special webstage: @maps/ space/moon/ (outsourced). The web browser serves as MainStage for a series of a actions written in Javascript and triggered by the performer and coder Joana Chicau.

In computation linguistics “Edit distance” is a string metric operation, the edit distance between two words is “the minimum number of single-character edits (insertions, deletions or substitutions) required to change one word into the other.” [more info at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_distance].

This piece explores the distance between words and its meaning, the space and the text, objects and functions, language, technique and imagination ...