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1. Writing Lives: Technology, Creativity, and Hypertext Fiction

   Writing Lives: Technology, Creativity, and Hypertext Fiction

   Patricia Tomaszek - 30.08.2013 - 18:18

2. Silicon Poetics: The Computer as Author and Artifice

   This thesis explores how various computer programs
   construct poems and addresses the way several critics
   respond to these computer generated texts. Surprisingly,
   little attention has heretofore been paid to these programs.
   Critics who have given the matter attention usually focus on
   only one of the myriad programs available, and more often
   than not, such scholarship concludes with a disparagement of
   all such projects. My work reexamines computer generated
   poetry on a larger scale than previously exists, positing
   some conclusions about how these texts affect contemporary
   theories of authorship and poetic meaning.
   My first chapter explicates the historical debate over the
   use and limits of technology in the generation of text,
   studying similitudes between certain artistic movements and
   computer poetry. This historical background reveals that
   the concept of mechanically generated text is nothing new.
   My second chapter delineates how the two main families of
   computer poetry programs actually create these texts.
   Computer programs combine existing input text, aleatory
   

   Johannah Rodgers - 30.10.2015 - 16:48