“Hack(Comedy)” is a computational comedy interface that aims to interrogate our perception of humor through a procedurally live generation that copies and reflects condensed themes and identities in the American comedy landscape. The artist undertakes an unexpected method of programming to achieve comic absurdity by generating materials from borrowed comic sources.
- Create: instantiate virtual comedians that are trained with their scraped stand-up transcripts
- Write: you can freely write with any individual virtual comedian.
- Group Improv: you can write to multiple selected virtual comedians at the same time, watching them generate different outcomes.
- Rant: Watch any virtual comedian generates on its own term
This application is built with Vue.js.
# install dependencies
$npm install
# serve with hot reload at localhost:8080
$npm run serve
- For this installation, you will need a keyboard for typing, a mouse for moving the cursor, and a monitor screen for displaying the web application. Please set the system language of the computer to English for this experience to work properly.
- Please run Hack(Comedy) on Chrome browser. You can access Hack(Comedy) at http://www.hackcomedy.net/ with a wifi connection or you could set up locally by cloning and running this code repo.
- Once you have the interface running on a chrome browser, enter FULL-SCREEN mode.
- You should be all set.
Heroku Cred: yzhan76
Copyright (c) 2020 Lan Zhang