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The Scope for a Reader: The Poetry of Text Generators

dc.creatorFunkhouser, Chris
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-06T14:36:26Z
dc.date.available2022-01-06T14:36:26Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractSyntext, 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.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/17713
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/18677
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherRoberto Simanowski
dc.publisher.placeProvidence
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:1617-6901
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDichtung Digital. Journal für Kunst und Kultur digitaler Medien
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectDigital Poetryen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.workSYNTEXT
dc.titleThe Scope for a Reader: The Poetry of Text Generatorsen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2022-01-06T15:41:26
local.source.epage6
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleNr. 38
local.source.spage1
local.source.volume10
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61949575

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