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1. Designer Gulch

   This generative poem explores the design world— populated by artists, models, assistants, photographers, interns, corporate clients, and others shaped by their desires for fame and profit shape their dreams. Conceptualized as a ” a never-ending epic of graphic labor” this “Taroko Gorge” remix was installed at the Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule and it is the first one to respond to user input. In this case, a motion sensor camera triggers a few lines of poetry every time a person enters the building, and displays the poem on two monitors. Interestingly enough, as the very same kinds of people featured in the poem walk in they can read about their ongoing labors, elevated to Sysiphean absurdity through permutation.

   (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

   Hannelen Leirvåg - 28.02.2013 - 11:12

2. Tasty Gougère

   This generative poem is dedicated to the gourmand in all of us. Though perhaps it’s more interested in exorcising it through health awareness. The poem itself is a remix of “Taroko Gorge” based on eating deliciously fatty and unhealthy foods, such as the Gougère from the title, but Burgess adds two other factors: one is an LDL cholesterol counter that counts up to 160 and provides advice on seeking medical attention, and another is a marquee strip that scrolls information on high levels of triglycerides and cholesterol levels. The masterstroke in this variation is the use of the “path” function in the code, which instead of revealing a monkey or Captain Kirk, it produces the phrase “myocardial infarction.”

   (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

   Hannelen Leirvåg - 28.02.2013 - 11:29

3. Larvatus Prodeo

   This collaborative poem in three parts makes virtuoso use of the marquee tag, which along with the ever-annoying blink tag, has been disavowed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which imperils its existence in future browsers. Each of its parts uses this tag as a central device for shaping its text in a different way to play with Barthes’ notion of how the past is reduced and turned into “a slim and pure logos” through narrative as well as with Descartes’ use of the latin phrase larvatus prodeo (I come forth, masked). (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

   Hannelen Leirvåg - 28.02.2013 - 13:27

4. Biggz

   This generative poem is built from four elements: an image, a caption, lines of verse by Simon Biggs, and a JavaScript framework Glazier developed for “White-Faced Bromeliads on 20 Hectares.” The poem and its contextual information are randomly generated whenever the page is loaded, reloaded, or every 20 seconds— which makes a marked difference in how one reads and conceptualizes the poem when compared to “White-Faced Bromeliads,” which refreshes every 10 seconds. Biggs’ lines of verse are perfectly grammatical, but unconventional in its logical formulations in the tradition of Language Poetry or Gertrude Stein, which makes them stand up well to the page’s generative engine.

   (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

   Hannelen Leirvåg - 28.02.2013 - 14:24

5. Taroko Gary

   Another take on Taroko Gorge by Nick Montfort. Leonardo Flores uses some of Gary Snyder's words from "Endless Streams and Mountains".

   Hannelen Leirvåg - 28.02.2013 - 19:24

6. NobodyHere

   A creative website that contains more than can be easily labelled as poetry, art, or narrative, though it certainly contains that and more. Launched in 1998, the site incorporates multiple Web technologies in very coherent fashion to create a hypertext of musings, anxieties, joys, searches for companionship, yearnings, and more navigable through interfaces populated by a variety of insects. Each page in this hypertext is a discovery: a thoughtful exploration of an idea through art, language, and metaphor. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

   Hannelen Leirvåg - 28.02.2013 - 20:07

7. Orbital

   This poem is the result of two creative collaborations: Max Dunlop’s poem “orbital: a postcard to space travel” and Neil Jenkins’ generative engine that creates an entirely different experience of the work. A conceptual link is that of human communication across space. The idea of a postcard is very tied to travel, since they can be sent through a postal service anywhere on the planet to a physical address. This paper-based model of human communication doesn’t work well when people leave the planet, requiring technologies that work with electronic signals. During a time of digital networks, packets are still being sent from one address to another, but they are digital sequences sent to numerical IP addresses, translated into more natural language by DNS servers. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

   Hannelen Leirvåg - 09.03.2013 - 21:15

8. GIF-Poems

   This selection of six poems built with a type of composite image known as animated GIFs used to create the earliest animations in the Web. In Zervos’ experienced hands (see his “Dimocopo” suite), this simple technology can be very expressive indeed, as can be seen in “Divorce” a kinetic concrete poem that uses moving typography to highlight some of the finer points in a divorce process. The narrative poem seen above, “A Kidz Story,” is best experienced in action because it is a story generator designed with nine animated GIFs, one per line, each with a different time interval between lines. This allows for different combinations to emerge over time, providing the illusion of variation in what eventually becomes very formulaic and repetitive— an incisive comment on the genre it represents. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

   Hannelen Leirvåg - 09.03.2013 - 21:43

9. Internal Damage Data

   “Internal Damage Data” uses the structure of a multiple choice questionnaire for self assessment of internal damage to shape the first part of the poem. For each question, Mez uses option C (maybe, unsure, other…) to develop her poem, seeking to transcend the traditional yes/no binaries in such questionnaires. In the part depicted above, she uses algorithms to structure her poem: using the logic and language of programming to guide the reader’s experience of the poem. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

   Hannelen Leirvåg - 12.03.2013 - 23:56

10. TransmoGrify

    This poem is a celebration of Nick Montfort’s “Taroko Gorge” and the more than 20 remixes made from its source code, leading to what I consider the beginning of a new born-digital poetic form. What Montfort has created with this poem generator is a way to find patterns in endless permutation of limited elements. But the poem is not in the endlessly looping textual output it produces, which is merely a temporary, ever-changing expression of an idea. The poem is in the moment a human intelligence reads that output, for however long necessary, and realizes what the poet wanted to express with those output patterns. The poem is in the pattern, teased out through the manipulation of variables and endless tweaks to the code to get this darned engine to produce something that roughly gestures towards what the poets wish to express. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

    Hannelen Leirvåg - 13.03.2013 - 00:22

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