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  1. SWALLOWS

    Written for the Apple IIe in 1985, this work was rescued from the floppy disc by MITH scholar Matthew Kirschenbaum in 2011. According to Digital Currents by Margot Lovejoy, the floppy disc was originally inserted into the back of Zelevansky's print book The Case for the Burial of Ancestors

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 19.04.2012 - 02:56

  2. Signagens

    Signagens (Signings) is a series of videopoems (1985-89) developed by E.M. de Melo e Castro with the support of the Portuguese Institute for Distance Learning (IPED) and later by the Open University of Lisbon, in its electronic and digital TV studios. According to Melo e Castro, "this project intended first of all to investigate video possibilities as a new medium for reading poetry. It was meant to be used in classes of literature and of Portuguese language. Very soon I realized that intersemiotic translation of print-based visual and experimental poems was obvious, as video seemed to me a perfect medium for animation of letters and words." (Media Poetry: An International Anthology, 2007: 180-181) For the full series, including all the videos:

    Alvaro Seica - 11.12.2013 - 15:32

  3. Alexandrins au Greffoir

    Alexandre au Greffoir fait référence à une méthode de transformation de texte. Elle a été publiée dans la Bibliothèque Oulipienne en 1986. Ces alexandrins sélectionnés proviennent des alexandrins les plus connus de la poésie française. Marcel Bénabou et Jacques Roubaud ont collaborés afin de retenir les alexandrins les plus connus de la poésie française en faisant marcher leur mémoire. Par conséquent, ils n’ont pas été puiser dans des anthologies ou des dictionnaires afin de sélectionner les meilleurs vers. Une fois la liste établie, ils ont eu recours à la greffe d’hémistiche. Les alexandrins sont coupés à la césure, puis reconstitués comme l’utilisateur le souhaite avec d’autres hémistiches, tel un moule. La méthode de l’ALAMO offre donc une fonction configuratrice au lecteur. Cette greffe obéit à plusieurs contraintes sémantique, syntaxique, prosodique pour respecter jusqu’au nombre de pieds d’un alexandrins (prenant donc en compte les phénomènes d’élision). Alexandre au Greffoir de l’OULIPO est un programme applicationnel qui sélectionne également les hémistiches dans l’inventaire de Bénabou et de Roubaud.

    Jonathan Baillehache - 01.09.2014 - 18:41

  4. Locutions Introuvables

    “Locutions introuvables” is a literary program inspired by Marcel Bénabou’s Ouilipien method published in The Oulipien Library N.25 in 1984. This program was presented in the “Les Immatériaux” exposition of the Centre Pompidou in 1985, but it was Éric Joncquel who ported it to the website ALAMO (l’Atelier de Littérature Assistée par la Mathématique et les Ordinateurs). The program is also inspired by the notion of “langage cuit” (over-done language) by Robert Desnos. Entitled “Quinze locutions introuvables, mais qui doivent enrichir notre sagesse” (15 lost expressions, but that ought to enrich our wisdom), this program takes one hundred and forty expressions and cuts them up into two parts and recombines them in order to form original expressions. Thus, the “head” and the “tail” of the expressions are mixed up to create lexical chimera. The program works by composing expressions randomly. That is to say, the creation of these “lost expressions” is a function of the combination of different elements that provides the reader with the opportunity of interpreting the text, or rather the scripton, in a personal manner.

    Jonathan Baillehache - 01.09.2014 - 19:16

  5. Triolets

    Les Triolets est un programme combinatoire alamien publié en 1985 par Paul Braffort qui est basé sur le triolet ; un poème avec une forme fixe depuis le Moyen Age en deux strophes avec le rime a b a a a b a b. La forme fixe se trouve dans la répétition des vers 1 et 2 aux vers 4, 7, et 8 respectivement. L’Alamo utilise la substitution des vers de 6 triolets « compatibles » originaux par Braffort qui sont combinés aléatoirement avec une contrainte stylistique pour créer 7. 776 triolets différents. La fonction de ce programme est exponentiel avec les 6 triolets originaux (6^5) et les tirages possibles selon la contrainte stylistique. Cette caractéristique rend ce programme alamien similaire à Cent Mille Milliard de Poemes par Raymond Queneau, mais avec moins de poèmes à cause de la structure à suivre.

    Sergio Encinas - 01.09.2014 - 22:12

  6. Dizains

    Les Dizains is a combinatory program/ text generator created by Marcel Bénabou. The work was presented at the Pompidou Center in 1985. The online version for the ALAMO website was made by Eric Joncquel. The program generates “dizains” (poems consisting of ten lines) in an exponential method. The “texton” (the original text the program uses to generate new poems) is one ten-line poem with five pairs of rhymes. The program allows the reader to access different permutations of these ten original lines. The generator uses a randomization function with stylistic constraints related to the rhyme structure. The constraints make it so that any two lines that rhyme can only be separated by 0, 1 or 2 other lines. These constraints yield a large but not unmanageable number of “scriptons” (possible new poems) (145,920). For example, it would not be impossible to read all of these poems over the course of several years. In this program, the role of the reader is to interpret the different permutations produced by the randomization function of the generator.

    Erin Stigers - 02.09.2014 - 01:12

  7. Super Mario Bros

    Super Mario Bros. is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo. The successor to the 1983 arcade game, Mario Bros., it was released in Japan in 1985 for the Famicom, and in North America and Europe for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1985 and 1987 respectively. Players control Mario, or his brother Luigi in the multiplayer mode, as they travel the Mushroom Kingdom to rescue Princess Toadstool from Bowser. They must traverse side-scrolling stages while avoiding hazards such as enemies and pits with the aid of power-ups such as the Super Mushroom, Fire Flower, and Starman.

    Trygve Thorsheim - 25.11.2019 - 14:17

  8. The First Meeting of the Satie Society

    "Conceived by John Cage and realized through the application of programs written at Cage's request by Jim Rosenberg and Andrew Culver (1985-86), this homage to the composer Erik Satie consisted of texts (presents) by writers who knew and loved Satie's work (or who might have if they had existed in a time period thar enabled them to know it), restructured by two computer programs. The texts were written by Henry David Thoreau, James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Chris Mann, Marshall McLuhan and John Cage, and also included selections from The Book of Genesis; there was also a "response" by Satie, consisting of selected quotes. One of the computer programs, MESOLIST, by Jim Rosenberg created mesostics on Satie's name and works from lines of text selected by IC a program by Andrew Culver that replicated the chance processes of the I Ching.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 18.09.2011 - 21:41