<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://leonardoflores.net/feed/creative-work.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://leonardoflores.net/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-07-06T12:16:04+00:00</updated><id>https://leonardoflores.net/feed/creative-work.xml</id><title type="html">Leonardo Flores | Creative-work</title><subtitle>Leader, Scholar, Educator, Creator.</subtitle><entry><title type="html">New Creative Works: 2025</title><link href="https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/new-creative-works-2025.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="New Creative Works: 2025" /><published>2026-02-04T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-02-04T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/new-creative-works-2025</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/new-creative-works-2025.html"><![CDATA[<p>Last year was as wonderfully productive for my creative work as it was politically challenging, leading to a record number of works created and published. Here's a brief writeup of my published creative work from 2025 in the order I wrote them, and three works written before 2025, but published or re-published this year. The titles link to the works. Go read them!</p>

<h3><a href="https://taper.badquar.to/14/consequences.html">Consequences</a></h3>
<p><img src="/images/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/consequences.png" alt="Screenshot of Consequences generative presidential actions piece" style="max-width: 400px; display: block; margin: 1rem 0;"></p>
<p>"Consequences" critiques Trump's first 100 Presidential Actions taken in his first 14 days in office by taking their titles (from the White House website), extracting their nouns, verbs, and adjectives and using them as data to generate new speculative Presidential actions. The emoji choices are a reference to Signalgate, which offered insight into the government officials and President responsible for these actions.</p>
<p>Published in <a href="https://taper.badquar.to/14/"><em>Taper</em> #14: Sonnets</a>.</p>

<h3><a href="https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2026/01/punch-flag-fire-and-anti-woke-lullaby/">Anti-Woke Lullaby</a></h3>
<p><img src="/images/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/antiwokelullaby.png" alt="Screenshot of Anti-Woke Lullaby generative poem" style="max-width: 400px; display: block; margin: 1rem 0;"></p>
<p>"Anti-Woke Lullaby" is a generative digital poem that repurposes the structure of the traditional lullaby "Hush, Little Baby" to critique political complacency. It was written as a response to all the right wing attacks on so-called woke culture. My idea was to unpack and reverse the metaphor: if seeing injustice and deciding to do something about it is to awaken, then those who benefit or from or don't care about the injustice must want to go back to sleep. This lullaby is for them.</p>
<p>Published in <a href="https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/"><em>Michigan Quarterly Review</em></a>. Issue 64:4. Fall 2025 online folio.</p>

<h3><a href="https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2026/01/punch-flag-fire-and-anti-woke-lullaby/">Punch Flag Fire</a></h3>
<p><img src="/images/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/punchflagfire.png" alt="Screenshot of Punch Flag Fire digital poem" style="max-width: 400px; display: block; margin: 1rem 0;"></p>
<p>"Punch Flag Fire" is a critique of the measures enacted by President Trump and his government that results in the massive loss of immigrants and citizens, impoverishing the U.S.A. through workforce, talent, and brain drain, while attracting and enriching oligarchs. Michael Waltz's now viral emoji trio (👊🇺🇸🔥) represents the attitude (and ineptitude) of Trump and his administration, as they do lasting damage to the country through measures meant to further their toxic agenda.</p>
<p>Published in <a href="https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/"><em>Michigan Quarterly Review</em></a>. Issue 64:4. Fall 2025 online folio.</p>

<h3><a href="https://badquar.to/publications/run_run_run.html">No Kings Haiku</a></h3>
<p><img src="/images/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/nokingshaiku.png" alt="Screenshot of No Kings Haiku Python script output" style="max-width: 400px; display: block; margin: 1rem 0;"></p>
<p>"No Kings Haiku" makes a selection of real slogans from the No Kings protests, organizes them as short and long (variables a & b, respectively) and randomly generates haiku with a minimalist Python script. The resulting haikus draw attention to the common ideas and the use of the poetic function of language used in protest slogans. Here's the Python script, which you can run in your computer's terminal or an online <a href="https://www.educative.io/compilers/python">Python compiler</a>:</p>
<pre><code>a=['NO KINGS','NO DICTATORS','NO TYRANTS',
'SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY','LOVE TRUMPS HATE','NO FAUX KING WAY',
'NO KINGS IN AMERICA','FAUX KING FASCIST','ABOLISH ICE'
'WE ARE ALL IMMIGRANTS','VETERANS AGAINST TRUMP',
'POWER TO THE PEOPLE','WE THE PEOPLE ARE PISSED',
'NO CROWN FOR THE CLOWN','PROTEST IS PATRIOTIC',
'TRUMP IS TOXIC','HISTORY IS WATCHING','NO FASCISTS']
b=['AMERICANS OVERTHROW KINGS','ICE IS THE NEW GESTAPO',
'NO FELON IN THE WHITE HOUSE','RISE UP AGAINST FASCISM',
'NO THRONES NO CROWNS NO KINGS','NOT MY CIRCUS NOT MY KING',
'WAKE UP & SMELL THE FASCISM','HISTORY HAS ITS EYES ON YOU',
'EL PUEBLO UNIDO JAMAS SERA VENCIDO',]
import random
c = random.choice(a)
d = random.choice(b)
e = random.choice(a)
print(c+'\n'+d+'\n'+e)</code></pre>
<p>Published in <a href="https://badquar.to/publications/run_run_run.html"><em>Run Run Run</em></a>.</p>

<h3><a href="https://remediatelitmag.xyz/issue4/">Tiny Protests: No Kings</a></h3>
<p><img src="/images/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/tinyprotestsnokings.png" alt="Screenshot of Tiny Protests: No Kings emoji animation" style="max-width: 400px; display: block; margin: 1rem 0;"></p>
<p>"Tiny Protests: No Kings" makes use of emoji, animation, and the passage of time to tell a story, much as I did in earlier iterations of Tiny Protests & Protestitas. It commemorates the No Kings protest movement in the USA, particularly the massive nationwide protests on June 14 and October 18, 2025. All the slogans are drawn from signs in photos documenting these protests across the nation. The work also critiques how President Trump has responded to peaceful protests in Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago, and other locations. The work has 5 movements, so it takes about 3 minutes to get a sense of the narrative arc it is presenting and critiquing. The work restarts after 6 minutes.</p>
<p>Published in <a href="https://remediatelitmag.xyz/issue4/"><em>RE-MEDIATE</em> #4</a>. Fall 2025.</p>

<h3><a href="https://taper.badquar.to/15/encounters.html">Encounters</a></h3>
<p><img src="/images/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/encounters.png" alt="Screenshot of Encounters generative emoji narrative" style="max-width: 400px; display: block; margin: 1rem 0;"></p>
<p>"Encounters" offers generative emoji-driven narratives about the impact (every pun intended) encounters with other people can have on our state of mind. The work unfolds endlessly, producing many stories of how people are affected by the people they encounter at a crossroads.</p>
<p>Published in <a href="https://taper.badquar.to/15/"><em>Taper</em> #15: Crossroads</a>.</p>

<h3><a href="https://antologia.litelat.net/volumen2/es/37_Juracan-Borinqueno.html">Juracán Borinqueño</a></h3>
<p><img src="/images/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/juracan.png" alt="Screenshot of Juracán Borinqueño generative hurricane scenario" style="max-width: 400px; display: block; margin: 1rem 0;"></p>
<p>I first wrote this piece as a Twitter bot in September 2018 to commemorate the anniversary of Hurricane María's devastating passage through Puerto Rico in 2017. When Twitter was destroyed by Elon Musk (X marks the spot where Twitter is buried) and Cheap Bots Done Quick! became inoperable, I ported it to a standalone HTML piece in early 2023 (read about it <a href="https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/rescued-and-renewed-works-taco-hell-menu-tiny-protests-jurakan-borinqueno-protestitas-and-a-bonus.html">here</a>). This work generates speculative scenarios before, during, and after the passing of a hurricane through Puerto Rico, based on my vivencias (lived experience). The work is in Spanish, but the browser can translate it automatically, if needed.</p>
<p>Published in <a href="https://antologia.litelat.net/volumen2/"><em>Antología Lit(e)Lat, Volumen 2</em></a>.</p>

<h3><a href="https://antologia.litelat.net/volumen2/es/73_protestitas.html">Protestitas 2023</a></h3>
<p><img src="/images/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/tinyprotests2023.png" alt="Screenshot of Protestitas 2023 protest march generator" style="max-width: 400px; display: block; margin: 1rem 0;"></p>
<p>"Protestitas 2023" generates an endless protest march on your browser in which angry Puerto Rican protesters march down a street chanting protest slogans on a variety of topics they are angry about. All protest slogans are drawn from real protests in Puerto Rico. This is partly a rescue from the original Twitter bot @Protestitas, partly an updated work and HTML reimplementation dealing with issues in 2023.</p>
<p>Published in <a href="https://antologia.litelat.net/volumen2/"><em>Antología Lit(e)Lat, Volumen 2</em></a>.</p>

<h3><a href="https://antologia.litelat.net/volumen2/es/36_Its_Complicated.html">It's Complicated</a></h3>
<p><img src="/images/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/itscomplicated.png" alt="Screenshot of It's Complicated generative opinion piece" style="max-width: 400px; display: block; margin: 1rem 0;"></p>
<p>"It's Complicated" is inspired by a lifetime of considering and debating the issue of Puerto Rico's status in relation to the U.S. The work generates a hypothetical Puerto Rican who talks about their provenance and then expresses an opinion for or against statehood, commonwealth, or independence for Puerto Rico. It was originally published in 2023 in <em>The Los Angeles Review</em>.</p>
<p>Re-published in <a href="https://antologia.litelat.net/volumen2/"><em>Antología Lit(e)Lat, Volumen 2</em></a>.</p>

<p>All of these works were vibe-coded using Chat GPT, except for "No Kings Haiku" which was hand-coded. They are all examples of what I call Cyborg Digital Writing. If you're interested in learning how to do it, check out <a href="https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/resources/a-cyborg-digital-writing-primer.html">this resource I created</a>.</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="creative-work" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Last year was as wonderfully productive for my creative work as it was politically challenging, leading to a record number of works created and published. Here's a brief writeup of my published cre...]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Wordhack Performance and Recent Creative Works</title><link href="https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/wordhack-performance-and-recent-creative-works.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Wordhack Performance and Recent Creative Works" /><published>2025-02-12T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2025-02-12T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/wordhack-performance-and-recent-creative-works</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/wordhack-performance-and-recent-creative-works.html"><![CDATA[<p>On Thursday, February 20 I will be performing some of my creative work at a monthly event called <a href="https://toddwords.com/wordhack/">Wordhack</a>, organized by Todd Anderson. <a href="https://withfriends.co/event/22796199/wordhack_feat_constant_dullaart_blake_andrews_and_leonardo_flores#">Here are the details of this upcoming Wordhack</a>.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE: Here’s <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2386760614?t=00h45m56s">a link to my performance</a> and the whole glorious event!</strong></p>
<p>Here’s a list of my recent creative works I might be reading selections from:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://collection.eliterature.org/4/tiny-protests-protestitas">Tiny Protests / Protestitas</a></li>
<li><a href="https://iloveepoetry.org/creative/tinyprotests2023.html">Tiny Protests 2023</a></li>
<li><a href="https://taper.badquar.to/5/social.html">Social</a></li>
<li><a href="https://taper.badquar.to/12/thought_clock.html">Thought Clock</a></li>
<li><a href="https://thenewriver.us/inner-lives-leonardo-flores/">Inner Lives</a></li>
<li><a href="https://taper.badquar.to/13/crossed_readings.html">Crossed Readings</a></li>
<li><a href="https://losangelesreview.org/its-complicated-by-leonardo-flores/">It’s Complicated</a></li>
<li><a href="https://iloveepoetry.org/creative/juracan.html">Juracán Borinqueño</a></li>
<li><a href="https://iloveepoetry.org/creative/tacohellmenu.html">Taco Hell Menu</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Can’t go to Wonderville in Brooklyn? <span id="Jelly_Site_998_Container" class="" data-generator="Better" data-kind="Container"><span id="Jelly_Site_998_Container_Event" class="" data-generator="Better" data-kind="Iterator" data-type="Event" data-template="Default" data-parent-type="Item" data-parent="" data-property="Path_Item" data-duration="0.001634"><span id="Jelly_Site_998_Container_Event_22796199_Async_Wrapper" class="" data-generator="Better" data-kind="Item" data-type="Event" data-template="Default" data-alias="WordHack_feat_Constant_Dullaart_Blake_Andrews_and_Leonardo_Flores" data-id="22796199" data-duration="0.000051" data-cache-parameters="{"Type":"Event","ID":"22796199","Template":"Default","Variables":"{\"session_ab_test\":1}"}"><span id="Jelly_Site_998_Container_Event_22796199_Async_Wrapper_Event" class="" data-generator="Better" data-kind="Iterator" data-type="Event" data-template="Default" data-duration="0.104371"><span id="Jelly_Site_998_Container_Event_22796199_Async_Wrapper_Event_22796199" class="" data-generator="Better" data-kind="Item" data-type="Event" data-template="Default" data-alias="WordHack_feat_Constant_Dullaart_Blake_Andrews_and_Leonardo_Flores" data-id="22796199" data-duration="0.102422" data-cache-parameters="{"Type":"Event","ID":"22796199","Template":"Default","Variables":"{\"session_ab_test\":1}"}">The event will be livestreamed at <a href="https://twitch.tv/wondervillenyc" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://twitch.tv/wondervillenyc</a></span></span></span></span></span> from 7:00-9:00 pm.</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="creative-work" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[On Thursday, February 20 I will be performing some of my creative work at a monthly event called Wordhack, organized by Todd Anderson. Here are the details of this upcoming Wordhack.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Rescued and Renewed Works: Taco Hell Menu, Tiny Protests, Jurakán Borinqueño, Protestitas and a Bonus</title><link href="https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/rescued-and-renewed-works-taco-hell-menu-tiny-protests-jurakan-borinqueno-protestitas-and-a-bonus.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Rescued and Renewed Works: Taco Hell Menu, Tiny Protests, Jurakán Borinqueño, Protestitas and a Bonus" /><published>2023-08-13T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2023-08-13T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/rescued-and-renewed-works-taco-hell-menu-tiny-protests-jurakan-borinqueno-protestitas-and-a-bonus</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/rescued-and-renewed-works-taco-hell-menu-tiny-protests-jurakan-borinqueno-protestitas-and-a-bonus.html"><![CDATA[<p>The past few months I’ve been rescuing four works that I created using <a href="http://tracery.io/">Tracery</a> and published as Twitter bots using <a href="https://cheapbotsdonequick.com/">Cheap Bots Done Quick!</a> (CBDQ). As you may know, Twitter’s recent changes have rendered CBDQ inoperable, and thousands of bots have gone silent as a result, a sad bot extinction event. Fortunately for my bots, my Chat GPT enhanced coding ability has allowed me to produce standalone Web versions of these, which has afforded me the opportunity to rethink and update the works. I will briefly list and describe them below:</p>
<h2><a href="http://iloveepoetry.org/creative/tacohellmenu.html">Taco Hell Menu</a></h2>
<p><img src="/images/creative_works/tacohell.png" alt="Taco Hell Menu screenshot" style="float:right; margin: 0 0 1rem 1rem; max-width: 300px;">This work is a critique of Taco Bell’s combinatorial approach to its Mexican-esque menu. It randomly generates a new menu item and a call to action every 30 seconds, or whenever you click on the Generate button.</p>
<p>This work is based on a Twitter Bot I launched on February 25, 2020 (<a href="https://twitter.com/TacoHellMenu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@TacoHellMenu</a>), which was inspired by <a href="https://twitter.com/TacoHellMenu/status/1233491491236057088" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this GIF</a> and a conversation with Eugenio Tisselli. Its first iteration was built collaboratively in a bot-building workshop I gave at the US Naval Academy on February 25, 2020 for Perla Sasson Henry’s students.</p>
<p><strong>July 2025 update: I have <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/tacohellmenu.bsky.social">ported the bot to Bluesky</a> using </strong><a href="https://bluebotsdonequick.com/"><strong>Blue Bots Done Quick!</strong></a></p>
<h2><a href="http://iloveepoetry.org/creative/tinyprotests2023.html">Tiny Protests 2023</a></h2>
<p><img src="/images/creative_works/tinyprotestsnokings.png" alt="Screen capture of the work, picturing an emoji march in the middle of a city" style="float:right; margin: 0 0 1rem 1rem; max-width: 300px;">I programmed this work on June 7, 2023 adapting the code from “<a href="https://taper.badquar.to/2/tiny_protests_protestitas.html">Tiny Protests / Protestitas</a>” published in Taper #2, and with help from Chat GPT while adding and updating the slogans from <a href="https://twitter.com/TinyProtests">the Twitter version</a>. I updated the code to focus on protest slogans that are relevant in 2023. To learn more about other iterations of this work, visit <a href="https://collection.eliterature.org/4/tiny-protests-protestitas">the versions published in the ELC4</a>. Click anywhere on the work to trigger fullscreen mode.</p>
<h2><a href="http://iloveepoetry.org/creative/protestitas2023.html">Protestitas 2023</a></h2>
<p><img src="/images/creative_works/protestitas2023.png" alt="Captura de pantalla de marcha de protesta por una ciudad, todo hecho con emoji." style="float:right; margin: 0 0 1rem 1rem; max-width: 300px;">Esta obra fue programada en Agosto de 2023 adaptando la programación de mi bot de protesta “<a href="https://twitter.com/Protestitas">@Protestitas</a>,” un bot de Twitter que ya no funciona. Y aunque no replica distintas configuraciones de protesta, sí tiene todas las consignas de protestas en Puerto Rico comenzando en el 2017, cuando programé el bot original. Para conocer más acerca de las otras versiones de esta obra visite: <a href="https://collection.eliterature.org/4/tiny-protests-protestitas">https://collection.eliterature.org/4/tiny-protests-protestitas</a></p>
<p>Esta obra está dedicada al pueblo puertorriqueño que marcha por sus derechos.</p>
<h2><a href="http://iloveepoetry.org/creative/juracan.html">Jurakán Borinqueño</a></h2>
<p><img src="/images/creative_works/Juracan2.png" alt="Poem over a map of the Caribbean." style="float:right; margin: 0 0 1rem 1rem; max-width: 300px;">Esta obra está basada en mi bot de Twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/Huracan_PR">@Huracan_PR</a>) creado en septiembre del 2018, conmemorando el primer aniversario del paso del huracán María por Puerto Rico.</p>
<p>Esta obra genera narrativas antes, durante y después del paso de un huracán por Puerto Rico. Aquellas que ocurren después se enfocan en el mal manejo de la recuperación por el gobernador Ricardo Roselló, el presidente Trump y sus equipos de trabajo. Las narrativas generadas por esta obra son aleatorias y especulativas, pero están basadas experiencias reales vividas en Puerto Rico.</p>
<p>Dedico esta obra a todas las personas que hemos sobrevivido el paso de un huracán por Puerto Rico y a aquellas que no tuvieron tan buena fortuna.</p>
<h2><a href="http://iloveepoetry.org/creative/tracery2htmltemplate.html">Bonus: Tracery2HTML Template</a></h2>
<p><img src="/images/creative_works/fgt.png" alt="Screen capture of the Tracery2HTML template." style="float:right; margin: 0 0 1rem 1rem; max-width: 300px;">This template offers a rudimentary structure for users to either copy-paste their Tracery code or modify and add to the provided code. I created this as a way to port my CBDQ bots to HTML, and am sharing it with the community in the same generous spirit that Kate Compton and V. Buckenham had when creating and sharing Tracery and Cheap Bots Done Quick! The page is more or less responsive (it should look decent on a phone). It reloads automatically every 30 seconds and goes fullscreen with any click.</p>
<p>This is the first of several coding engines I will create (with major help from Chat GPT) to lower the access barrier to creative coding, digital writing, and electronic literature. To use it, you can save this file and open it with a text/code editor or download it <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SYFhkO1nzg5RjVnknMKt5TNqIH7AOEam?usp=sharing">here</a>. And because it is licensed with the MIT license, you already have my permission to use it and modify it as you see fit.</p>
<p>I hope you find it useful!</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="creative-work" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[The past few months I’ve been rescuing four works that I created using Tracery and published as Twitter bots using Cheap Bots Done Quick! (CBDQ). As you may know, Twitter’s recent changes have rend...]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">New Creative Works: “Tentative” and “It’s Complicated”</title><link href="https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/new-creative-works-tentative-and-its-complicated.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="New Creative Works: “Tentative” and “It’s Complicated”" /><published>2023-05-24T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2023-05-24T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/new-creative-works-tentative-and-its-complicated</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/new-creative-works-tentative-and-its-complicated.html"><![CDATA[<p>This Spring, I created a series of works that explore Puerto Rico’s relation to the United States. It was catalyzed by the recent <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8393">Puerto Rico Status Act</a>, which seeks “to resolve Puerto Rico’s political status” with a plebiscite that offers “eligible voters a choice of independence, sovereignty in free association with the United States, or statehood.” This is the latest attempt to resolve an issue that has been central to my Puerto Rican people since the U.S. invaded Puerto Rico in 1898 and has become increasingly complex over 125+ years as our economies, culture, history, and politics have become entangled.</p>
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<p><img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-1534 alignleft" src="https://leonardoflores.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/PRStatusDebate-Mastodon-300x222.png" alt="Screenshot of PRstatusdebate profile on Mastodon." width="300" height="222" srcset="https://leonardoflores.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/PRStatusDebate-Mastodon-300x222.png 300w, https://leonardoflores.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/PRStatusDebate-Mastodon.png 675w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px"></img>The first iteration of this work took the form of two bots created for Twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/PRstatusdebate">@PRstatusdebate</a>, which no longer functions since Twitter changed its Free API) and Mastodon (<a href="https://botsin.space/@PRstatusdebate">@PRstatusdebate@botsin.space</a>). If you use Mastodon, you can follow it and get a perspective from a hypothetical Puerto Rican (from the island or the diaspora) offering real opinions on the three status options.</p>
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<p><img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-1535 alignright" src="https://leonardoflores.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Tentativescreenshot-300x197.png" alt="Screenshot of opening screen for "Tentative"" width="300" height="197" srcset="https://leonardoflores.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Tentativescreenshot-300x197.png 300w, https://leonardoflores.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Tentativescreenshot.png 763w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px"></img>The second iteration is a minimalist version titled “<a href="https://taper.badquar.to/10/tentative.html">Tentative</a>” which was published in <a href="https://taper.badquar.to/10/"><em>Taper #10: Powers of Ten</em></a>. Because Taper requires works to be no larger than 2 kb in size (2048 bytes), I focused this work on perspectives in favor and against the prospect of statehood for Puerto Rico, once again keeping the perspective focused on Puerto Rican perspectives. This piece is interactive and asks readers to click on the emoji to randomly select a hypothetical <em>boricua</em> and a real perspective on the issue of statehood for <em>la isla</em>.</p>
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<p><img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-1538 alignleft" src="https://leonardoflores.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/complicatedscreenshot-300x169.png" alt="Screenshot of "It's Complicated"" width="300" height="169" srcset="https://leonardoflores.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/complicatedscreenshot-300x169.png 300w, https://leonardoflores.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/complicatedscreenshot-768x432.png 768w, https://leonardoflores.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/complicatedscreenshot.png 889w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px"></img></p>
<p>The most recently published and most complete exploration of this concept is “<a href="https://losangelesreview.org/its-complicated-by-leonardo-flores/">It’s Complicated</a>,” commissioned and published by <em>The Los Angeles Review</em> as part of its <a href="https://losangelesreview.org/lar-latinx-digital-poetics/"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Latinx e-lit folio</span></a>. This version builds on both bot and Taper versions to create a time-based randomized exploration of the three status options, plus it adds statements rejecting the issue or the very idea of holding a referendum (thank you, Andie Pabón Thomas for this important idea). This version is designed for exhibition by having full screen capability, and unfolding over time. Each iteration takes 15 seconds to unfold: each emoji represents a hypothetical Puerto Rican that describes their provenance and 5 seconds later offers a perspective on the status issue. The random background colors help signal that it’s someone else in a different context.</p>
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<p>So what do I think about this issue? My intent and opinions must be interpreted through the work(s). (Remember that I’m a literature professor: I’m not giving it away that easily). That being said, there are hints in the source code for both “Tentative” and “It’s Complicated,” which you can access in a computer (usually with a right click or through your browser’s menu bars). But whatever specific stance I might have about each status opinion– the works clearly express ideas that I don’t personally agree with– one point should become clear: there are many reasons why this is such a complex topic for my people and this might be why no previous attempts at resolving it have provided a clear mandate from our people, wherever we might be.</p>
<p>A final note: I created these works in English because my primary audience is USAmericans and other people around the world who might wonder how Puerto Ricans feel about this. Some of my compatriots might be triggered by these works– this is such a fiercely debated topic that it has broken families and friendships– and may take offense to not seeing their own perspectives reflected in the work. To them I say that I have tried to represent as many voices and perspectives as I’ve heard over the course of a lifetime of considering this issue. And I hope people can at least use them to at least have a more nuanced understanding of our neocolonial condition and the imperfect choices that lie before us.</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="creative-work" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[This Spring, I created a series of works that explore Puerto Rico’s relation to the United States. It was catalyzed by the recent Puerto Rico Status Act, which seeks “to resolve Puerto Rico’s polit...]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Obra Nueva: Bot de Santos Olvidados</title><link href="https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/obra-nueva-bot-de-santos-olvidados.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Obra Nueva: Bot de Santos Olvidados" /><published>2021-06-22T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2021-06-22T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/obra-nueva-bot-de-santos-olvidados</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/obra-nueva-bot-de-santos-olvidados.html"><![CDATA[<p>¿Conoces la vida y obra de Santa Marielfaela quien vivió en Deventer en el siglo V después de Cristo? Durante su distinguida vida la madre enseñó a las ciudadanas y mantuvo votos de silencio. Se enclaustró en una ermita. Al día de hoy sus seguidoras visitan su tumba. </p>



<p>O tal vez has escuchado de San Zón, quien nació en el año 1275 después de Cristo en Sicilia. Durante su sacrificada vida el cardenal instituyó letanías para los samaritanos y mantuvo votos de pobreza. Se enclaustró en un obispado. Su cuerpo incorrupto yace en el monasterio de Berbera.</p>



<p>Si le parecen desconocidos estos santos y sus vidas, es porque son el producto de un (ro)bot que genera historias de santos ficticios y las publica en Twitter cada 3 horas. El bot se llama Santos Olvidados y lo consiguen en el nombre de usuario <a href="https://twitter.com/SantosOlvidados/">@SantosOlvidados</a>.</p>



<p>Este bot fue inspirado inicialmente por la práctica antigua de nombrar bebés según los nombres de santos conmemorados el día  de su nacimiento, utilizando recursos como almanaques de nombres y ahora con recursos en línea como: <a href="https://www.santopedia.com/">https://www.santopedia.com/</a>. </p>



<p>La chispa creativa surgió una conversación con Zach Whalen acerca de una ponencia futura de James Ryan sobre el <em>Svensk Namnbok 1964</em>, un libro de nombres generados por computadora y seleccionados por miembros del gobierno sueco para diversificar los nombres en su población. Se me ocurrió que si fueramos a hacer un proceso similar con el corpus de nombres de santos y santas, podría generar santos nuevos.</p>



<p>Los nombres que presenta mi bot fueron generados con un programa Márkov (<a href="https://projects.haykranen.nl/markov/demo/">el de Hay Kranen</a>) entrenado con nombres de 1,156 santos y 552 santas listados en <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.santopedia.com/?fbclid=IwAR0MywsTk7aBTBWvG9wc8twb0hEbrU2v2bBXjjeNF46ZBeOwfH7PkC9i67I" target="_blank">https://www.santopedia.com/</a>. Los programas de cadenas de Márkov examinan textos, producen un modelo de probabilidades de que una letra siga a la otra basado en esos textos, y generan nuevas palabras basadas en ese modelo. El proceso fue el siguiente: generar aproximadamente 1,500 nombres de santos y santas, asegurarme que no hubiera repeticiones ni que concordaran con nombres de santos reales, finalmente produciendo una base de datos de 1,000 nombres de santos y 1,000 de santas, todos originales.</p>



<p>Así que si necesitan nombres originales para su bebé o personaje ficticio, pueden pedírselos al bot. Si lo menciona en Twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/SantosOlvidados">@SantosOlvidados</a>) y usa la palabra “niño” o “niña” el bot le responderá con una lista de nombres de santo o santa, respectivamente. Si usa la palabra “hoy” le dará una lista con 4 nombres de santo y 4 de santa.<br><br>Pero más interesante que los nombres son las historias breves que genera sobre sus vidas. Cada 3 horas, el bot publica en Twitter una historia de santo o santa relatando su procedencia, logros (incluyendo milagros) y el (frecuentemente sufrido) fin de su vida. Puede pedirle al bot que le genere una historia mencionando al bot por su nombre (<a href="https://twitter.com/SantosOlvidados">@SantosOlvidados</a>) y usando las palabras “santo” o “santa” en su tuit y le responderá con una historia generada al momento.</p>



<p>Así que le invito a seguir y disfrutar de este (ro)bot, el cual representa un ejercicio de creatividad computacional basado en el imaginario católico y las tradición de nombrar bebés basados en santos en España, latinoamérica y el caribe. Y si bien tiene un toque humorístico (entre los nombres absurdos y las historias anacronísticas) y algunos elementos críticos, se hace sin deseo de ofender. Busqué no replicar los nombres de santos ni santas existentes para evitar crear desinformación acerca de esta rica tradición católica. Esto es 100% ficción por el amor al arte y esta parte de mi patrimonio cultural.</p>



<p>Aquí consiguen mi (ro)bot: <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://twitter.com/SantosOlvidados?fbclid=IwAR24yRxsSaeYa7YB-5mjuIOBKscSLZu_60IhUP7mK1hGq0kNVLOweL534hA" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/SantosOlvidados</a> el cual fue creado con <a href="https://cheapbotsdonequick.com/">Cheap Bots Done Quick!</a>. Si desea crear un bot utilizando este servicio gratuito, lea <a href="https://www.80grados.net/como-crear-un-robot-de-protesta-en-4-pasos/">este tutorial</a>. Y si le interesa estudiar su programación, puede accederlo aquí: <a href="https://cheapbotsdonequick.com/source/SantosOlvidados">https://cheapbotsdonequick.com/source/SantosOlvidados</a></p>



<p>¡Espero que lo disfruten!</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="creative-work" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[¿Conoces la vida y obra de Santa Marielfaela quien vivió en Deventer en el siglo V después de Cristo? Durante su distinguida vida la madre enseñó a las ciudadanas y mantuvo votos de silencio. Se en...]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">My recent #criticalmemes</title><link href="https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/my-recent-criticalmemes.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="My recent #criticalmemes" /><published>2017-05-09T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2017-05-09T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/my-recent-criticalmemes</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/my-recent-criticalmemes.html"><![CDATA[<p>				This semester has presented me with opportunities to create several critical memes. From teaching how to create memes that present complex ideas and critiques in my <a href="https://leonardoflores.net/DigitalMediaCriticism">Digital Media Criticism</a> course to a fiscal crisis in Puerto Rico that has led to an indefinite student strike at the University of Puerto Rico, I have had plenty of inspiration to explore this popular digital media genre. So here are some of my most recent memes.</p>
<p>My most recent one is inspired by <a href="https://twitter.com/searls/status/817052005776625664">this meme</a> about Republicans planning to repeal of the Affordable Care Act.</p>
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i-KDZUuOpu4" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<p>Here’s <a href="https://media.giphy.com/media/3o7bug531DXea5CjMQ/giphy.gif">a link to the GIF version</a>.</p>
<p>This series was inspired by Puerto Rico’s National Strike on May 1, 2017– a massive peaceful protest against austerity measures that was misrepresented by the media and many people when a small group of people engaged in vandalism after the event had concluded.</p>

<p>Finally, when Governor Ricky Rosselló, who repeatedly stated during his campaign that the debt could be paid and that he wouldn’t declare bancruptcy, declared bankruptcy, I created these two memes (click to enlarge).</p>

<p>I don’t know how much of an impact these memes will have, but they’re fun to create and circulate nicely in social media. My <a href="https://leonardoflores.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/paronacionalmeme.png">most successful one</a> has received of 4,500 shares between Facebook and Twitter since it was launched a week ago. Most importantly, they allow me to express my perspective on current events while I practice my skills on and learn about what makes this such a popular digital genre.</p>
<p>And before anyone corrects me on this, I will clarify that I’m aware that:</p>
<p><a href="https://leonardoflores.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/imagemacron.png"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-950" src="https://leonardoflores.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/imagemacron.png" alt="Text over image of French presiden Macron: "This is not a meme / It's an image macron"" width="600" height="600"></img></a></p>
<p>Share and enjoy!		</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="creative-work" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[This semester has presented me with opportunities to create several critical memes. From teaching how to create memes that present complex ideas and critiques in my Digital Media Criticism course t...]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">My Tedx Talk: “I ♥ E-Poetry: Discovering Digital Media Poetry”</title><link href="https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/my-tedx-talk-i-%E2%99%A5-e-poetry-discovering-digital-media-poetry.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="My Tedx Talk: “I ♥ E-Poetry: Discovering Digital Media Poetry”" /><published>2016-07-01T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2016-07-01T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/my-tedx-talk-i-%E2%99%A5-e-poetry-discovering-digital-media-poetry</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/my-tedx-talk-i-%E2%99%A5-e-poetry-discovering-digital-media-poetry.html"><![CDATA[<p>				On December 5, 2015 I participated in the first TedxUPRM event. In my talk I discuss my journey of discovery of electronic poetry, define e-literature, and talk about its importance for developing digital literacy.</p>
<p><iframe title="I ♥ E-Poetry: Discovering Digital Media Poetry | Leonardo Flores | TEDxUPRM" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qN9fret0PNo?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="None"></iframe></p>
<p>Enjoy!		</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="creative-work" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[On December 5, 2015 I participated in the first TedxUPRM event. In my talk I discuss my journey of discovery of electronic poetry, define e-literature, and talk about its importance for developing ...]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Now Recruiting: Bot Makers for HackPR 2015</title><link href="https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/now-recruiting-bot-makers-for-hackpr-2015.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Now Recruiting: Bot Makers for HackPR 2015" /><published>2015-08-28T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2015-08-28T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/now-recruiting-bot-makers-for-hackpr-2015</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/now-recruiting-bot-makers-for-hackpr-2015.html"><![CDATA[<p>				I’m interested in assembling a team for HackPR 2015 (Sept. 19-20) to create the Hostos Bot 2.0 – <a href="http://iloveepoetry.com/?p=5427" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a software robot</a> that uses the writings of Eugenio María de Hostos to generate new texts and publish them in social media.</p>
<p>Last semester, my <a href="https://leonardoflores.net/lab" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Digital Humanities Internship</a> course created <a href="http://hostosbot.tumblr.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hostos Bot 1.0</a>, a program that draws from a corpus of 16 books written by Eugenio María de Hostos to generate new (and absurd) texts, which are published every 6 hours in social media networks (Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook). This bot was a collaborative effort: under my direction, the DH Internship students prepared the textual corpora, and Anderson Román wrote the program (using Node.js) to generate the texts and publish them to Tumblr.</p>
<p>Here are some features I’m interested in developing for Hostos Bot 2.0:</p>
<ul>
<li>Develop the ability to post directly to Twitter and Facebook, instead of via Tumblr.</li>
<li>Develop interactivity via Twitter, so the bot replies to those who wish to address it.</li>
<li>To have the bot comment on trending topics in Puerto Rico, by drawing on newspaper headline feeds and selecting language from it to seed its Markov Chain text generator.</li>
</ul>
<p>I need 2-3 students who can work with Node.js (or can port it to another scripting language), can work with the Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr APIs, and can set this up as an autonomous hosted bot. I can provide guidance and resources for the project.</p>
<p>This bot will be presented at international electronic literature conferences and at the <a href="http://ferialibrohostos.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Magna Feria del Libro Eugenio María de Hostos</a>.</p>
<p>If you’re interested and available for the hackathon, please e-mail me at leonardo.flores@upr.edu.		</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="creative-work" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[I’m interested in assembling a team for HackPR 2015 (Sept. 19-20) to create the Hostos Bot 2.0 – a software robot that uses the writings of Eugenio María de Hostos to generate new texts and publish...]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Se levanta un bot puertorriqueño: Hostos Bot</title><link href="https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/se-levanta-un-bot-puertorriqueno-hostos-bot.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Se levanta un bot puertorriqueño: Hostos Bot" /><published>2015-05-21T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2015-05-21T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/se-levanta-un-bot-puertorriqueno-hostos-bot</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/se-levanta-un-bot-puertorriqueno-hostos-bot.html"><![CDATA[<p>				Es con gran placer que anuncio el lanzamiento del primer “bot” puertorriqueño: <a href="http://hostosbot.tumblr.com">Hostos Bot</a>.</p>
<h2>¿Qué es un bot?</h2>
<p>Un bot es un programa de computadora (o conjunto de programas) diseñado para ser un agente autónomo en un entorno digital. Los bots son construidos enteramente con programación y texto, distinto a sus contrapartes físicas, los robots. Aunque la mayoría de los robots se utilizan para fines prácticos, tales como la recolección, análisis y almacenamiento de datos , la producción de mensajes, la interacción con los usuarios, o llevar a cabo otras acciones, los bots también se han utilizado para fines artísticos y literarios en su historia. Los bots son uno de los géneros más antiguos de la literatura electrónica, desarrollándose desde sus inicios en el 1966 de un único subgénero: los bots conversacionales. En años recientes los bots han experimentado un crecimiento exponencial en número, complejidad, subgéneros y popularidad, particularmente en los medios sociales.</p>
<p>La mejor manera de leer un bot es suscribirse al mismo, incorporándolo a su experiencia de los medios sociales. Es como colgar arte recurrente, pero siempre cambiante, en un espacio infinito.</p>
<p>Para más información y muchos ejemplos de este género emergente, visite <a href="http://iloveepoetry.com/?p=5427" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">este recurso</a>.</p>
<h2>¿Por qué Hostos?</h2>
<p>Eugenio María de Hostos (1839-1903) vivió una vida extraordinaria que lo hizo digno de ser reconocido como prócer puertorriqueño y llamado el Ciudadano de América. Nacido en un humilde barrio mayagüezano y educado en España, su visión de independencia antillana y puertorriqueña lo llevó a viajar las Américas, luchando con sus escritos, liderazgo y obra.</p>
<p>En la ocasión del <a href="https://leonardoflores.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/certamenhostos.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Certámen de obras creativas sobre la pertinencia y presencia de Eugenio María de Hostos en Puerto Rico y América</a>, he colaborado con mis estudiantes del curso <a href="https://leonardoflores.net/lab" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Digital Humanities Internship</a> en la creación de este bot. Nuestra meta es crear una obra de literatura electrónica que lleve una representación artística de Hostos al ciberespacio para que pueda ser apreciado por nuevas audiencias.</p>
<h2>¿Qué son las humanidades digitales y la literatura electrónica?</h2>
<p>Las humanidades digitales son una convergencia productiva entre las humanidades y las tecnologías digitales que ha llevado a la digitalización de libros, documentos y otros objetos análogos, la creación de archivos digitales y el desarrollo de nuevas herramientas y técnicas para investigación humanística.</p>
<p>La literatura electrónica (o digital) es la exploración artística y literaria de la palabra en los medios electrónicos y digitales. El impulso literario vio su primera expresión en la computación en 1952, cuando Christopher Strachey creó un generador de cartas de amor. En 1966, Joseph Weizenbaum creó el primer bot llamado ELIZA, un programa con el cual uno podía conversar mediante un teclado. Desde entonces, los géneros de literatura electrónica se han diversificado y han proliferado, particularmente desde que las computadoras llegaron a los hogares en los años 80 y con el Internet a partir de los mediados de los años 90. Existen <a href="http://collection.eliterature.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">antologías de literatura digital</a>, además de recursos como el blog <a href="http://webliter.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Webliter</a>, el <a href="http://elmcip.net/knowledgebase" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ELMCIP Knowledge Base</a> y mi proyecto <a href="http://iloveepoetry.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">I ♥ E-Poetry</a> donde hemos reseñado más de 650 obras de literatura electrónica.</p>
<p>Tanto las humanidades digitales como la literatura electrónica se enfrentan al reto de explorar la expresión creativa, académica y humanística en los medios digitales y ofrecen oportunidades únicas para el desarrollo de literacia digital, una destreza esencial para las nuevas generaciones que se desempeñarán en el siglo 21. Pienso que Hostos aprobaría de una educación que forme ciudadanos creadores y usuarios diestros de los medios digitales y no meramente consumidores de los mismos.</p>
<h2>El proyecto Hostos Bot</h2>
<p>El proyecto Hostos Bot busca contestar dos preguntas:</p>
<ol>
<li>¿Cómo podemos poner a circular la obra de Hostos en los medios digitales para que nuevas generaciones puedan apreciar su obra?</li>
<li>¿Cómo podemos capturar la voz de Hostos en escritos nuevos que no violenten los derechos de su obra publicada?</li>
</ol>
<p>Nuestra respuesta es este humilde bot compuesto de más de 20 libros donde se publican textos escritos por Hostos, un programa de computadora que utiliza sus palabras para generar nuevos textos y cuentas de <a href="http://hostosbot.tumblr.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tumblr</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/hostosbot" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Twitter</a> y <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hostosbot" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Facebook</a> para diseminar los mismos.</p>
<p>Para más detalles de cómo funciona y busca lograr sus metas <a href="http://hostosbot.tumblr.com/proyecto" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">visite la página oficial</a> donde se describe el proyecto en más detalle.</p>
<p>Deseo recalcar que este es el lanzamiento de la primera versión (1.0) del Hostos Bot y que estaremos añadiendo funcionalidad al mismo. Por ejemplo, deseamos añadir más libros a su base de datos, continuaremos editando los textos que tenemos para reducir errores de conversión, añadiremos funcionalidad al bot para que podamos interactuar con el mismo en Twitter, buscaremos generar textos inspirados por temas actuales y haremos otros inventos para que continúe su conversación con el presente.</p>
<p>El equipo de trabajo para la versión 1.0 del Hostos Bot consiste de:</p>
<ul>
<li>Diseño y Dirección: Dr. Leonardo Flores</li>
<li>Programación: Anderson Román</li>
<li>Preparación de textos: Vashti Tacoronte, Desiree Soltero, William Rodriguez, Christian Quintero y Carlos Aguayo.</li>
</ul>
<p>Concluyo cediéndole la palabra al Hostos Bot:</p>
<blockquote><p>Pero entonces, por cierto el esposo, tomó su madre. Ambos esposos, mirándose en el vano. Esa es un clamor. ¿y lo hicimos examinar a ti y todavía a su propia dignidad otras personas que me producía un patriota? Me gustaba dirigirle la casa de hilos eléctricos que no comprendes. Pues empieza. Se trataba de mis visitas. (<a href="http://hostosbot.tumblr.com/post/119521490100/pero-entonces-por" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">original</a>)</p></blockquote>
<p>Le invito a suscribirse al bot en cualquiera de los medios sociales en que se expresa: <a href="http://hostosbot.tumblr.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tumblr</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/hostosbot" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Twitter</a> y <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hostosbot" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Facebook</a>.		</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="creative-work" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Es con gran placer que anuncio el lanzamiento del primer “bot” puertorriqueño: Hostos Bot.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Performance: A Bot Choral</title><link href="https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/performance-a-bot-choral.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Performance: A Bot Choral" /><published>2014-01-04T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2014-01-04T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/performance-a-bot-choral</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/creative-work/performance-a-bot-choral.html"><![CDATA[<p>				On Friday, January 10, I’ll be participating in the ELO’s MLA Off-Site E-Lit Reading at the Flaxman Library in Chicago. Here’s a <a href="https://m.facebook.com/events/501116586668740">link to the Facebook event invitation</a>.</p>
<p>And here’s a description of the part I’ll be involved in.</p>
<h1>Participants</h1>
<p>(listed in alphabetical order):</p>
<ul>
<li>Leonardo Flores</li>
<li>Mark Sample</li>
<li>Zach Whalen</li>
<li>Roger Whitson</li>
</ul>
<h1>Performance</h1>
<p>This 10-minute performance will feature four scholars reading from a Twitter stream set to feature the output of multiple bots, including some created by the scholars themselves. Each reader will select several bots to read out loud, and the reading sequence will be determined by the curated Twitter stream, which will be displayed live on screen. The resulting juxtapositions should be both humorous and thought-provoking, with the individual readers’ voices lending continuity to the bots. During the performance, there will be a few moments in which a reader focuses on the text generated by a single bot, in the tradition of a solo riff.</p>
<p>This fun performance should raise awareness of <a href="http://iloveepoetry.com/?p=5427">a growing emergent e-lit genre: the bot</a>.		</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="creative-work" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[On Friday, January 10, I’ll be participating in the ELO’s MLA Off-Site E-Lit Reading at the Flaxman Library in Chicago. Here’s a link to the Facebook event invitation.]]></summary></entry></feed>