Allison Parrish Explained

Allison Parrish
Birth Place:	Bountiful, Utah
Nationality:	American
Field:	Poetry, software engineering, creative coding, game design, electronic literature
Works:	Everyword, Rewordable, Articulations

Allison Parrish is an American poet,^[1] software engineer, creative coder, and game designer, notable as one of the most prominent early makers of creative, literary Twitter bots.^[2] She was named "Best Maker of Poetry Bots" by The Village Voice in 2016.^[3] Parrish has produced a textbook introduction to creative coding in Python, more specifically Processing.py.^[4] Parrish holds a BA in Linguistics from UC Berkeley, and a Master of Professional Studies from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), NYU. She has been a Writer-in-Residence in the English Department of Fordham University, 2014–16, and an Assistant Arts Professor at the ITP since 2016.^[5]

Selected works

Everyword. 2007–2014. A conceptual poetic Twitter bot launched 2007 and later published as a book: Book: Parrish. Allison. Everyword: the book. 2015. Instar Books. New York. 978-0-9904528-5-0. This bot tweeted out an alphabetized list of about 100,000 words, one every 30 minutes. Instead of a definition, the entry for that word contains the social media analytics of that tweet.^[6] @everyword was one of the first bots to have an ultimate telos, or aim, as well as a clear structure, and a metanarrative as the reactions to each word were substituted for a definition and use of the word.
Frankenstein-Genesis, word vectorization, a machine-readable representation mixes two paragraphs from "Frankenstein" and the Bible.^[7]
Articulations uses an algorithm to draw lines between similar linguistic elements of public domain poetry. ^[8]
Rewordable. 1999–2000. With collaborators Adam Simon and Tim Szetela.^[9] ^[10]
Book: Parrish. Allison. Articulations. 2018. Counterpath. Denver. 978-1933996653.

Awards

Allison Parrish won The Maverick Award from the Electronic Literature Organization in 2024.^[11] ^[12]

External links

Allison Parrish's website Web site: Decontextualize. 11 September 2019.

Notes and References

Web site: Temkin. Daniel. 2020-05-31. The Hacker Aesthetic of Minimalist Code. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200927083040/https://hyperallergic.com/566816/the-hacker-aesthetic-of-minimalist-code/. September 27, 2020. 2020-08-27. Hyperallergic. en-US.
Web site: What it Means to Be an 'Experimental Computer Poet'. Mariana. Fernandez. October 12, 2017. Vice. September 19, 2019. October 12, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191012041800/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8x8ppp/poetry-twitter-bots-best-twitter-bots-art-allison-parrish-everyword. live.
Chiel. Ethan. Best Maker of Poetry Bots: Allison Parrish. Village Voice. 2016. 2019-09-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20170503040312/http://www.villagevoice.com/best-of/2016/smart-city/best-maker-of-poetry-bots-9237810. 2017-05-03. dead.
Book: Parrish. Allison. Make: getting started with Processing.py. 2016. Maker Media. San Francisco. 978-1457186837.
Web site: Allison Parrish: Assistant Professor. 22 September 2019. NYU/TISCH. September 22, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190922212049/https://tisch.nyu.edu/about/directory/itp/853082171. live.
Web site: Digging and Sinking and Drifting: Allison Parrish’s Machine Poetics - Journal #117 . 2024-07-06 . www.e-flux.com . en.
Web site: Music 256A Reading Response 9 . 2024-07-06 . ccrma.stanford.edu.
Web site: 2018-04-17 . Interview with Allison Parrish . 2024-07-06 . esoteric.codes . en.
D'Anastasio. Cecilia. Five family-friendly board games that aren't monopoly. Kotaku. 2017. September 19, 2019. August 14, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200814004249/https://kotaku.com/five-family-friendly-board-games-that-arent-monopoly-1821584449. live.
Web site: Lucy Family Institute Fireside Chat Series, Data Poetics: Allison Parrish . 2023-05-11 . . en . 2022-11-11 . February 2, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230202084331/https://lucyinstitute.nd.edu/news-events/events/2022/11/11/lucy-family-institute-fireside-chat-series-data-poetics-allison-parrish/ . live .
Web site: Marino . Mark . 2024-07-22 . Announcing the 2024 ELO Awards – Electronic Literature Organization . 2024-08-15 . en-US.
Web site: ELO Annual Awards – Electronic Literature Organization . 2024-08-15 . en-US.