Hyperrhiz 13
Love Notes and Intimate Circuits
Helen J. Burgess
North Carolina State University
Citation: Burgess, Helen J.. “Love Notes and Intimate Circuits.” Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, no. 13, 2015. doi:10.20415/hyp/013.m02
Abstract: This kit documents MashBOT, a physical computing project in which a Twitterbot is paired with a thermal printer. Love notes are generated by the @mashomatic Twitter account and printed as "receipts" for display. Drawing on Roland Barthes' A Lover's Discourse and Bruno Latour's Aramis: or the Love of Technology as its primary texts, MashBOT asks us to think about the ways in which the written declaration of love (the mash note) is a document at once transactional and unfathomable.
Components
Critical Essay: Making Love in the Mangle of Practice
Instruction Set: Setting up the Board and Printer
Instruction Set: Creating Your Twitterbot
Instruction Set: Feeding Information from Twitter to Printer
Twitter Feed for MashBOT Love Notes: @mashomatic