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1. GENERATION[S]

   GENERATION[S] expands upon a series of short fictions generated by Python scripts adapted (with permission) from two 1k story generators written by Nick Montfort, and incorporates GORGE, a never-ending tract spewing verse approximations, poetic paroxysms on food, consumption, decadence and desire, a hack of Montfort’s elegant poetry generator Taroko Gorge. There was only one rule in creating GENERATION[S]: No new texts. All the texts in this book were previously published in some way. The texts the generators produce are intertwined with the generators’ source code, and these two types of texts are in turn interrupted by excerpts from the meta narrative that went into their creation. Most of the sentences in the fiction generators started off as Tweets, which were then pulled into Facebook. Some led to comments that led to responses that led to new texts. All these stages of intermediation are represented in the print book iteration of GENERATION[S]. 

   (Source: Author's website)

   Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 14:44

2. Takei, George

   "Takei, George" is a remix of Nick Montfort's "Taroko Gorge," transforming Montfort's original meditative generative poem into a comment on pop culture, fandom, and contemporary politics.

   (Source: The ELO 2012 Media Art Show)

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 19.02.2012 - 18:14

3. Argot, Ogre, OK!

   All of the prior remixes of Nick Montfort's _Taroko Gorge_ rewrote the text, while leaving Nick's code unchanged or almost so. I thought that was a shame. I also thought it was an opportunity! Since they all essentially consisted of word-lists plugged into a schema, I was able to remix them together on two axes at the same time:

   * Combining the word-lists of any two poems;
   * Mutating the stanza schema.

   I also took the opportunity to randomize the color schemes of the pages. (But not the font choices or the background imagery that some of the poems indulged in. Optima for everybody, I'm afraid.)

   Nick's original poem generates a constant ABBA-C pattern, with some extra B's thrown in. This page essentially invents a new pattern (for example A-, or BC-BA, or CCC, or so on) for each block. The code for the pattern is on the left, and the generated output is on the right.

   To answer the obvious question: Yes, this page really does execute the code that's displayed in the left column, and it really does generate the text in the right column.

   Scott Rettberg - 24.06.2012 - 15:09

4. Take Ogre

   Take Ogre is a poetry generator which remixes Nick Montfort's Taroko Gorge--a nature poem generator built in javascript. McNamara modified the code and substituted the language of Montfort's work to create this poetry generator, which describes a game-world with kings, queens, ogres and players as part of the poem. In addition to changing the words of the original poem, McNamara also has changed the background to a home-environment.

   Guro Prestegard - 22.09.2016 - 12:23

5. Hey Gorgeous

   "Hey Gorgeous" by Darius Kazemi is one, in a great number of remixes of the generative work "Taroko Gorge" by Scott Monfort. How Darius Kazemi remixes Monfort's work, is by changing the textstrings in the code, thereby changing the generated text which moves up the screen. "Hey Gorgeous" pictures a scene in a nightclub, with focus on men and boys, in relation with women, drugs, dancing etc.

   Guro Prestegard - 18.10.2016 - 15:22

6. Garaż w Tokio

   A poetry generator for the imaginary city. Tokyo Garage is a remix of Nick Montfort's "Taroko Gorge" -- a nature poem generator built in javascript. Rettberg modified the code and substituted all of the language of Montfort's work to create this poetry generator, which plays with received stereotypes of the Tokyo metropolis and of urbanity in general.

   Guro Prestegard - 18.10.2016 - 15:52

7. Future Lore

   "Future Lore" is a poetry generator that remixes Nick Montfort's poetry generator "Taroko Gorge". It presents a futuristic free-for-all world where chaos rules. 

   Filip Falk - 05.06.2019 - 01:00

8. Most Powerful Words

   Most Powerful Words is a digital literary work comprised of 54 computer-generated poems. There are six themes containing nine poems. Click a theme, then a panel of the theme’s carousel to generate a unique, infinite, recombinant poem. Click ‘Return to [SECTION]’ to return to the carousel menu. Click ‘Return to Main’ to return to this page. 

   Using Montfort’s algorithmically minimal Javascript (for copyright, inspect source), this collection presents all language on the same playing field, allowing contemporary readers to lightly, quickly, precisely, visibly, and consistently traverse the infinite use and misuse of past and present language. Chrome browser recommended.

   David Wright - 11.11.2020 - 04:42