The Autcompletionist
What?Inspiration ︎
The Autocompletionist is a generative writing project inspired by the limitations and rules used in the five obstructions movie. The writing tools used for The Autocompletionist included Predictive text feature of Apple iOS device (Notes app), a dictionary to locate words in alphabetical order with respect to parts of speech they belong to (noun, verb, adjective, etc), Grammarly App and Google search engine.
How?The process had four cycles that followed alphabetical index. There wereself-crafted rules for each cycle using writing tools. The sentences were typed out on the iOS Notes App using Apple’s Predictive feature. Predictive text is an input technology that facilitates typing on a mobile device by suggesting words the end user may wish to insert in a text field.
Inspiration ︎
The Five Obstructions is a 2003 Danish documentary film directed by Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth. In 1967, Leth made a 12 minute feature film called The Perfect Human. Lars von Trier challenged Jorgen Leth to remake his film five times, each time with a new obstruction to force Leth to rethink the story and characters of the original film.
Stories ︎
CYCLE ONE
Tongue Twister Tales
The first cycle follows a completely random analog random code I made with specific words inserted from the dictionary in an alphabetic order - each sentence has words belonging to the same alphabet although belonging to different parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, etc).
Explaining the code elaborately - First noun starting with the ‘a’ + using the word in the centre predicted by the app x (4) + Using the first result of a food object starting with the letter ‘a’ + using the word in the centre predicted by the app x (4) + First word in the dictionary starting with ‘a’ and is defined as a verb + using the word in the centre predicted by the app x (4) + using the first adjective starting with ‘a’ and adding the exiting noun already used + using the word in the centre predicted by the app x (4) + using the second word from the dictionary starting with ‘a’ which is a verb + using the word in the centre predicted by the app x (4).
rules ︎ stories ︎
CYCLE TWO
Grammarly Satisfied
This cycle is simple (intentional, the previous one was exhausting). Using the sentence from the first cycle, cycle two changes all the words using the suggested words and corrections on Grammarly app until there are no more suggestions.
rules ︎ stories ︎
CYCLE THREE
Reverse-bad advice
This cycle is simple (intentional, the previous one was exhausting). Using the sentence from the first cycle, cycle two changes all the words using the suggested words and corrections on Grammarly app until there are no more suggestions.
rules ︎ stories ︎
CYCLE FOUR
Hidden stories
This makes no sense, lol, I’m going to call them layers of stories.
Using the code from Cycle three, and rules of using the predictive text (Notes app) and the physical dictionary, short stories are created. These sentences are further changed using Grammarly app. OMG, the end.
rules ︎ stories ︎
