Andrew W. Smith
Creator and Project Director
Andrew directs LiteraryDJ's research, design, and development, exploring how digital remixing and computation can create new ways of engaging with literature.
A Playground for Remixing Literature.
LiteraryDJ is a platform for creativity and research. We build tools that let readers, students, and scholars work with public domain literature in new ways, from remixing lyric fragments to testing an interpretation by playing with it.
The work combines humanistic inquiry with interactive design: we care about how algorithms feel in the hand, how interfaces invite play, and how scholarship can meet audiences in galleries, classrooms, and online.
002People behind the project
Team
LiteraryDJ invites contributions to its public experiments from people with a range of skills and backgrounds, including research, design, art, development, and engineering.
Portfolio
Student contributors
Students at UMD have used LiteraryDJ as both a research instrument and an educational tool, testing ideas in natural language processing, visual design, and data visualization while creating lasting contributions to the project.
003A-Side / B-Side
Two Sides of the Same Record
LiteraryDJ carries one core idea across two distinct contexts. One side leans toward public performance and cultural experience; the other turns the same medium into a tool for inquiry, learning, and institutional collaboration.
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A-Side: Arts & Entertainment
The public-facing side: performances, installations, and releases that turn public domain literature into an event, with the immediacy of music.
- Installations and gallery experiences
- Remixes built from public domain literature
- Public storytelling that is hands-on and social
B-Side: Research & Education
Flip the record and the same system becomes a tool for research and teaching. Scholars, students, and partners test interpretations by playing with them.
- Collaborative research that stays tied to its sources
- Workshops that make computational creativity teachable
- Tools for classrooms and labs
004Supporting LiteraryDJ
Supporters & Partners
Made possible through the support of our partners, funders, and collaborators.
AADHum
African American Digital & Experimental Humanities
Arts for All
at University of Maryland
MITH
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities