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  1. M.U.C. Love Letter Generator

    Arguably the first work of electronic literature, this 1952 program used Alan Turing's random number generator to create combinatory love letters on the Manchester Mark I computer. While the output may not be of high literary quality, Strachey discovered and implemented the basic the basic structures of combinatory literature, at a very early point in history.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 24.03.2011 - 23:06

  2. Between Code and Motion: Generative and Kinetic Poetry in French, Portuguese, and Spanish

    This article looks at works of electronic poetry in French, Portuguese, and Spanish. While video and digital experiments in these languages date back to the 1970s and 1980s, the works considered here are mostly post-World Wide Web, i.e., produced between the mid-1990s and 2009. The article discusses the work of Philippe Bootz, founding member of Lecture, Art, Innovation, Recherche, Écriture (LAIRE) and theorist of programmed literature. It comments on the relationship between digital computer code and literature, addressing the materiality of the display and poetics. Other topics explored include programming poetry, patterns of specific writing processes, and automatic text generation. Through analysis of computer-assisted multimodal and retroactive forms, this essay discusses the role played by code and motion in digital works. It also stresses the function of language as cultural form in electronic literature.

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    Scott Rettberg - 23.01.2013 - 23:20

  3. Random Access Memory

    Random Access Memory is a "dyslexic" text generator that sources its information from the Web. There is an English and a French version.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 22.04.2014 - 19:25

  4. Sunspring

    In the wake of Google's AI Go victory, filmmaker Oscar Sharp turned to his technologist collaborator Ross Goodwin to build a machine that could write screenplays. They created "Jetson" and fueled him with hundreds of sci-fi TV and movie scripts. Building a team including Thomas Middleditch, star of HBO's Silicon Valley, they gave themselves 48 hours to shoot and edit whatever Jetson decided to write.  (Source: YouTube video description)

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 24.05.2022 - 21:18

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