Electronic Literature, Chapter 2: Combinatory Poetics
This research collection includes references from the second chapter of Electronic Literature by Scott Rettberg (Polity, 2018) on Combinatory Poetics. Computer programs access and present data, whether internal to the program and provided by external sources and user input, and then through algorithmic processes, modify or substitute the data presented by the system. It is in this procedural substitution of data, and of language, that computation is most concretely connected to combinatory poetics in experimental writing traditions such as Dada, Surrealism, and Oulipo. This chapter of Electronic Literature considers how elements of chance and procedurality served as the foundation for combinatory and generative art and literature. Combinatory poetics emerged in twentieth-century avant-garde movements, further developed in poetry generators in the early history of computing and remains today an essential mode of practice in electronic literature.
People:
Name | Residency |
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William Chamberlain | |
Tristan Tzara | |
Theo Lutz |
Esslingen
Germany
DE
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Talan Memmott |
United States
US
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Stephanie Strickland |
New York City
, NY
United States
New York US
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Scott Rettberg |
Bergen
Norway
NO
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Raymond Queneau |
France
FR
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Ranjit Bhatnagar | |
Racter | |
R.M. Worthy |
United States
US
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Pauline Masurel | |
Nick Montfort |
New York
, NY
United States
New York US
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Nanette Wylde |
Redwood City
, CA
United States
California US
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Mark Sample |
Davidson
, NC
United States
North Carolina US
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Kate Durbin | |
Judd Morrissey |
Chicago
United States
US
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Joseph O'Rourke | |
Johannes Heldén |
Stockholm
Sweden
SE
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Jim Carpenter |
United States
US
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Jim Andrews |
Vancouver
, BC
Canada
British Columbia CA
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Organizations:
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OULIPO |
Paris
France
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FR
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Fluxus | |
ALAMO |
Paris
France
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FR
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