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Prehistoric Digital Poetry
Explores pioneering works of digital poetry and
demonstrates how technological constraints that would seemingly
limit the aesthetics of poetry have instead extended and
enriched poetic discourse For the last five
decades, poets have had a vibrant relationship with computers
and digital technology. This book is a documentary study and
analytic history of digital poetry that highlights its major
practitioners and the ways that they have used technology to
foster a new aesthetic. Focusing primarily on programs and
experiments produced before the emergence of the World Wide Web
in the mid-1990s, C. T. Funkhouser analyzes numerous landmark
works of digital poetry to illustrate that the foundations of
today’s most advanced works are rooted in the rudimentary
generative, visual, and interlinked productions of the
genre’s prehistoric period. Since 1959, computers have
been used to produce several types of poetic output, including
randomly generated writings, graphical works (static, animated,
and video formats), and hypertext and hypermedia. Funkhouser
demonstrates how hardware, programming, and software have been
used to compose a range of new digital poetic forms. Several
dozen historical examples, drawn from all of the predominant
approaches to digital poetry, are discussed, highlighting the
transformational and multi-faceted aspects of poetic
composition now available to authors. This account includes
many works, in English and other languages, which have never
before been presented in an English-language publication. In
exploring pioneering works of digital poetry, Funkhouser
demonstrates how technological constraints that would seemingly
limit the aesthetics of poetry have instead extended and
enriched poetic discourse. As a history of early digital poetry
and a record of an era that has passed, this study aspires both
to influence poets working today and to highlight what the
future of digital poetry may hold.
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Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry
In this engaging, accessible memoir, Charles Hartman shows how computer programming has helped him probe poetry's aesthetic possibilities. He discusses the nature of poetry itself and his experiences with primitive computer-generated poetry programs and -- illustrated with sample computer-produced verses -- traces the development of more advanced hardware and software.The central question about this cyber-partnership, Hartman says, \"isn't exactly whether a poet or a computer writes the poem, but what kinds of collaboration might be interesting.\" He examines the effects of randomness, arbitrariness, and contingency on poetic composition, concluding that \"the tidy dance among poet and text and reader creates a game of hesitation. In this game, a properly programmed computer has a chance to slip in some interesting moves.\"
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Virtual muse : experiments in computer poetry
In this engaging, accessible memoir, Charles Hartman shows how computer programming has helped him probe poetry's aesthetic possibilities. He discusses the nature of poetry itself and his experiences with primitive computer-generated poetry programs and -- illustrated with sample computer-produced verses -- traces the development of more advanced hardware and software.
The central question about this cyber-partnership, Hartman says, isn't exactly whether a poet or a computer writes the poem, but what kinds of collaboration might be interesting. He examines the effects of randomness, arbitrariness, and contingency on poetic composition, concluding that the tidy dance among poet and text and reader creates a game of hesitation. In this game, a properly programmed computer has a chance to slip in some interesting moves.
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Uncreative writing
Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? The Internet and the digital environment present writers with new challenges and opportunities to reconceive creativity, authorship, and their relationship to language. Confronted with an unprecedented amount of texts and language, writers have the opportunity to move beyond the creation of new texts and manage, parse, appropriate, and reconstruct those that already exist. In addition to explaining his concept of uncreative writing, which is also the name of his popular course at the University of Pennsylvania, Goldsmith reads the work of writers who have taken up this challenge. Examining a wide range of texts and techniques, including the use of Google searches to create poetry, the appropriation of courtroom testimony, and the possibility of robo-poetics, Goldsmith joins this recent work to practices that date back to the early twentieth century. Writers and artists such as Walter Benjamin, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Andy Warhol embodied an ethos in which the construction or conception of a text was just as important as the resultant text itself. By extending this tradition into the digital realm, uncreative writing offers new ways of thinking about identity and the making of meaning.
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