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Remember Searching Text & Code: Jon Heggestad The text seen here is adapted from a program created by Nick Monfort. By omitting different sentences from a prepared list of phrases, this program generates variations of a story for which I’ve supplied the words. Refresh the page to view a new iteration. Remember Searching

In the spring of 2021, I was requested by Stony Brook University’s English Department to create a series of data visualizations that would display the department’s primary research interests (as they had been identified in a survey sent out to the department’s faculty). Using a combination of Tableau Public and Cytoscape, I ultimately chose to

These data visualizations (created using Tableau Public’s software) display common practices within the MTV Teen Wolf fandom, analyzing over 1,600 fics that feature the “mpreg” trope from this particular corner of the fan fiction repository Archive of Our Own (or AO3).

Bandai’s Tamagotchi Pix uses a built-in camera to allow Tamagotchi characters like the Mametchi (featured in many of the images above) to interact with users’ real-world environments. Here, the Tamagotchi is used to censor images of adult entertainers. In being put to this use, is the character participating in the act being depicted on its

In 2016, I set out to create a digital edition of Oscar Wilde’s fairy tale “The Young Prince,” from the author’s 1891 collection A House of Pomegranates, that might home in on the text’s many allusions to same-sex male desire, reclaiming some of that original, fleshy & inappropriate reputation it had upon its first publication.