Cent mille milliards de poèmes

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1961
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A book of sonnets were the pages are cut into strips so that you can combine the first line of one sonnet with the second line of any other sonnet and so on, thus generating, possibly, "a hundred thousand billion poems". An antecedent of computationally generated poetry.

Critical writing that references this work:

Title Author Yearsort descending
Digital Poetry Leonardo L. Flores
A Ciberliteratura: Criação Literária e Computador Pedro Barbosa 1996
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature Espen Aarseth 1997
Cyberspace, Virtuality and the Text Marie-Laure Ryan 1999
Hyperfiktion und interaktive Narration Beat Suter 2000
Formalisation d’un modèle fonctionnel de communication à l’aide des technologies numériques appliqué à la création poétique Philippe Bootz 2001
Hypertext: Merkmale, Forschung, Poetik Roberto Simanowski 2002
Computerpoesie: Studien zur Modifikation poetischer Texte durch den Computer Saskia Reither 2003
Leituras de Nós: Ciberespaço e Literatura Alckmar Luiz dos Santos 2003
Hyperworks: On Digital Literature and Computer Games Anna Gunder 2004
Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: Rethinking Signification in New Media N. Katherine Hayles 2004
Creating Screen-Based Multiple State Environments: Investigating Systems of Confutation Donna Leishman 2004
The Time of Digital Poetry: From Object to Event N. Katherine Hayles 2006
Expressive Processing: On Process-Intensive Literature and Digital Media Noah Wardrip-Fruin 2006
Theory and technology for computational narrative: an approach to generative and interactive narrative with bases in algebraic semiotics and cognitive linguistics D. Fox Harrell 2007
Tekstspill i hypertekst. Koherensopplevelse og sjangergjenkjennelse i lesing av multimodale hyperfiksjoner Hans Kristian Rustad 2008
A Interatividade na Poesia Digital Otávio Guimarães Tavares 2009
List(en)ing Post Rita Raley 2009
Creativity Support for Computational Literature Daniel C. Howe 2009
Písanie v interaktívnych médiách. Digitálna fikcia /Writing in the Interactive Media. Digital Fiction Zuzana Husárová 2009
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