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1. Beyond the Googlization of Literature: Writing Other Networks

   It's true, poets have been experimenting with producing writing (or simply writing, just writing of a sort not familiar to us - writing as input and writing as choosing) with the aid of digital computer algorithms since Max Bense and Theo Lutz first experimented with computer-generated writing in 1959. What is new and particular to the 21st century literary landscape is a revived interest in the underlying workings of algorithms, not just a concern with the surface-level effects and results that characterized much of the fascination in the 1970s and 1980s with computer-generated writing. With the ever-increasing power of algorithms, especially search engine algorithms that attempt not just to "know" us but to in fact anticipate and so shape our every desire, our passive acceptance of these algorithms necessarily means we cannot have any sense of the shape and scope of how they determine our access to information, let alone shape our sense of self which is increasingly driven by autocomplete, autocorrect, automata.

   Daniela Ørvik - 17.02.2015 - 15:47

2. Teaching Creative Writing with Python

   The course concerns the classic tension in poetry between decontextualization and juxtaposition: deciding what a text’s constituent elements are, breaking the text into those elements, and then bringing them back together in surprising and interesting ways. Students are taught not just about string processing and text analysis, but also about the poetic possibilities of using those techniques to algorithmically build new texts. Each semester, the course culminates in a live performance, in which each student must read aloud for an audience a text that one of their programs has generated.

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   Sumeya Hassan - 26.02.2015 - 21:16

3. Biopoetry

   Biopoetry is a new poetic form invented by Eduardo Kac in 1999 through “Genesis,” in which Kac created an “artist’s gene,” a synthetic gene that he translating a sentence from the biblical book of his artwork produced by and then Biopoetry Eduardo Kac Biopoetry is a new poetic form invented by Eduardo Kac in 1999 through “Genesis,” in which Kac created an “artist’s gene,” a synthetic gene that he translating a sentence from the biblical book of Genesis into Morse code converting the Morse code into DNA base pairs according to a conversion principle specially developed by the artist for this work. The sentence reads, “Let man have dominion over the fish fi of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” It was chosen for what it implies about the dubious notion of divinely sanctioned humanity’s supremacy over nature. The Genesis gene was incorporated into bacteria, which were shown in the gallery. Participants on the web could turn on an ultraviolet light in the gallery, causing real, biological mutations in the bacteria. This changed the biblical sentence in the bacteria.

   Sumeya Hassan - 06.05.2015 - 19:33