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Browsing 38 | 2008 by Subject "Digital Poetry"
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- ArticleThe Art of Poetry MachinesGendolla, Peter (2008) , S. 1-4The history of machine-aided poetry from Swift to Roussel, Bense, the Oulipo-group and David Link's Poetry Machine 1.0* represents the idea of aesthetic creativity as an interplay between ‘poetic’ algorithms and ‘human’ control of the poetry-generator, with more or less interesting results. By examining Christopher Strachey's Love Letter Generator and confronting it with traditional poetry, the talk attempts to ascertain whether in this way it is possible to isolate or retrieve the literary process.
- ArticleDistributed Cognition in/at Work: Strickland, Lawson, and Ryan's SLIPPINGGLIMPSEHayles, N. Katherine (2008) , S. 1-2slippinglgimpse by Stephanie Strickland and Cynthia Jaramillo stages a three-way conversation between poem-texts, with phrases appropriated from photographers, videographers, and programmers, with Paul Ryan's videography of dynamic fluid systems, with complex algorithmic interactions between text and dynamic images. The two main conceptual issues at stake here, as I see it, are 1) the relationship between human and non-human cognizers, and 2) the intricate play between dynamic and static systems. The first involves natural systems such as wind/water interactions, human readers/writers, and machine cognizers; the second involves emergent patterns amidst continually changing flux (and implicitly, electronic text vs. print). There are also meta-issues involving interactions between the two main issues, for example, how deterministic machine operations can nevertheless lead to emergent and unpredictable results, and how human cognizers excel in recognizing patterns amidst noisy systems (perceiving the emergent patterns as such).
- ArticleThe Scope for a Reader: The Poetry of Text GeneratorsFunkhouser, Chris (2008) , S. 1-6Syntext, developed by Pedro Barbosa and Abílio Cavalheiro in the early 90s (later partially re-versioned on the World Wide Web), is a collection of fifteen computer programs from the 70s, 80s, and 90s that automatically generate various styles of poetry in DOS. Though the texts made by each of the programs are thematically unrelated, through these pioneering works by Barbosa, Nanni Balestrini, Marcel Bénabou, and others, each of the predominant fundamental attributes of text-generators is clearly divulged. Syntext, despite being primitive on the surface, powerfully brings to light the expressive possibilities, versatility, and variation within permutation texts, and provides sufficient evidence upon which a typology of computer poems can be established.