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1. Kissing the Steak: The Poetry of Text Generators

   Syntext, developed by Pedro Barbosa and Abílio Cavalheiro in the early 90s (later partially re-versioned on the World Wide Web), is a collection of fifteen computer programs from the 70s, 80s, and 90s that automatically generate various styles of poetry in DOS. Though the texts made by each of the programs are thematically unrelated, through these pioneering works by Barbosa, Nanni Balestrini, Marcel Bénabou, and others, each of the predominant fundamental attributes of text-generators is clearly divulged. Syntext, despite being primitive on the surface, powerfully brings to light the expressive possibilities, versatility, and variation within permutation texts, and provides sufficient evidence upon which a typology of computer poems can be established.

   (Source: abstract of conference presentation)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 31.01.2011 - 15:28

2. Gutenberg Galaxy Revis(it)ed: A Brief History of Combinatory, Hypertextual and Collaborative Literature from the Baroque Period to the Present

   "Gutenberg Galaxy Revis(it)ed: A Brief History of Combinatory, Hypertextual and Collaborative Literature from the Baroque Period to the Present"

   Literature in computer-based media cannot be contemplated without a long literary tradition.
   This article aims at substantiating this assumption with numerous examples of combinatory,
   hypertextual and collaborative texts from German literary history since baroque
   times. Therewith it provides us with a historical basis in order to work out the common
   features and differences that with computers have entered literary texts.

   Source: author's abstract in book publication

   Jörgen Schäfer - 28.06.2011 - 14:58