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As you may know, April is national poetry month, an annual series of events by the Academy of American Poets to help support the appreciation of American poetry.

matthew_butler · by the sound, near the sea-wall Inspired by Stephen Pollington’s translation of an Exeter Book riddle in Runes: Literacy in the Germanic Iron Age, this sound piece uses dadaists poem fragments to imagine a fictional Immanuel Kant discover…

Yesterday, FiveThirtyEight featured a fantastic article by Trevor Martin, a Ph.D student in Computational Biology at Stanford University.

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After a late-night conversation with my brother about the Strat-O-Matic baseball game, I wondered if there was a way to generate realistic looking cards using real-world data.

https://github.com/mbutler/openwound A (re)writing tool that uses analyzed parts-of-speech for structure and word vectors to find similar replacement words.

I built this subway style data visualization of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus for Philosophy professor David Stern and graduate fellows Philip Ricks and Landon Elkind at the University of Iowa.

The 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons often gets a bad rap for being too video gamey with encounters that drag out forever.

intermedia chart by Dick Higgins In 1995, Fluxus artist Dick Higgins created the Intermedia Chart, a Venn diagram describing overlapping academic art traditions.

In 1994, my college roommates and I started playing the game Heroes Unlimited, published by Palladium Books.

A project funded by an innovation grant written by Colleen Theisen, librarian at the University of Iowa Libraries.

I served as lead developer on this award-winning crowdsourcing platform at the University of Iowa Libraries.

Four minor characters from 19th century epistolary novels break free on twitter and converse with each other as well as any other person who engages with them.

The University of Iowa Libraries is home to the Fluxus West Collection, a group of physical art objects made by artists Joseph Beuys, Yoko Ono, George Brecht, Alison Knowles, Ken Friedman, A-Yo, George Maciunas, and others.

It’s become almost folklore among mid-sized cities within a 250-mile radius of Chicago to claim “gang members are moving to our town and bringing violence with them”.

In Greek mythology, the Anemoi were wind gods who were each ascribed a cardinal direction, from which their respective winds came, and were each associated with various seasons and weather conditions.

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Ben Franklin drunk dialing simulator.

I had a studio here and helped put on some shows and exhibits.

Gravitation at the Jet Realm.

It was announced today that the Library of Congress will digitally archive all public tweets.

Box Full of Angels is a fictional operating system based on a paper by Aaron Sachs (Assistant Professor of Media, Technologies, and Culture at Saint Mary’s College of California) concerning the influence of religious belief on the writings of Marshall McL…

cover Intermedia Writing Systems, revised 3rd edition is a textbook I wrote for a theoretical class at a hypothetical school.

Corpus Chimera The Intermedium of Tissue A variable represents a set of words in a particular order.

A flash application based on Joan Bunning’s Learn Tarot online course.

https://github.com/mbutler/openwound Openwound is a (re)writing tool named after the famous William S.

Featured in the Rhizome.org Artbase View the code here Schema was originally published in issue 5+6 of Aspen magazine.

In 2004, I had the distinct privilege of being an unpaid Interaction Designer and Programmer for an ambitious Iowa City tech startup hoping to make waves in the then-emerging world of touchscreens.

dATAPLOT art show at St.

branding by Avatar Design This project was the final culmination of a 13-year exploration of the world of get-rich-quick schemes.

Originally produced in May 2003 for Spatial Intersections at the University of Iowa Museum of Art seminar version performed for Version>04 Invisible Networks based on the book ALLOY Dully Servant (Soviet No-Gang Shriners) reads from the twisted linguistic…

Produced by Community Architexts Chicago/ Los Angeles Read the script I wrote based on audio and written interviews in the collection of the State Historical Society of Iowa library.

A project funded by the Reggie Amos Project Grant for Intermedia Development and originally distributed through Printed Matter.

An album dedicated to the best verb tense, future perfect.

This is an experimental user interface I built for the Mediated Trace Structures video conference in 2001.

This video is part of the Sarsenworld game demo featured in the Tender, Squalacious, and Digital show at the University of Iowa Museum of Art, curated by Ebon Fisher.

Originally produced for Uber-Setzung/Translation at the University of Iowa Museum of Art.

Winner of the Juror’s Choice Award at the 2001 Film and Video Retrospective, Des Moines Art Center.