Alex Nickolson-Edie, Reborn (2018)

The original poem was Holopoems from Kac from the year 1983. I found the rearranging of letters and disappearing of letters to make a poem an interesting idea, most of the holopoems don’t took the word reborn and played around with the format and font of the letters to recreate an unique image. The new poem I wrote is more based on the Holopoem ANDROMEDA SOUVENIR in that letters can be made out but it doesn’t necessarily spell something out and while originally it said "reborn" it is now just the remnants of the shapes of letter and to me when doing the first one rewriting "reborn" over and over the word stopped having meaning and deconstructed itself so my new versions of the poem feels more like that deconstruction and abstraction.

Lisha Nie, Eclipse Code (2018)

"Some of the artists like Emmett Williams and Lionel Kearns in the chronology，they are trying to give those generated things vitality through deconstructing the language itself and giving them new form or meaning which might be nonsense, but concretism. Some artists like Baudot, he create his own code. Some artists like Raymond Queneau and Italo Calvino from Oulipo, they are creating their poetry or literature based on the structure of math or scientific principle. Various Artists in the chronology, I cannot tell one certain work inspired me, instead, the whole context of digital poetry inspired me through checking their works."

Krista Young, Machine Crisis Poems ( 1 poem ), 2018

Processing with javascript - random string generator

from Energy Crisis Poems by rjs ( 4 poems )

IBM assembler language program, IBM S370/158 (at data center of Standard Oil of Ohio)

Cleveland, Ohio 1974

Sylvie Mayer, ski-town (2018)

Adobe Muse.

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

My poem, ski-town, is a reprise of Deena Larsen’s Marble Springs. Larsen’s poem was created for HyperCard and features the relationships and places in a 1800’s Colorado mining town. My poem was made with Adobe Muse and features interactions and sites between people at a Colorado ski resort.

Hannah Yi, Lonely (2018)

VHS app on Iphone

Author's Note: After watching Aire by Clemente Padin, I realize that she is trying to draw a line between industrialization and the air we breath. In my piece, “Lonely”, I decided to “retranslate” the poem by using clips where I filmed when present with a significant other but felt extremely lonely. Both Aire and Lonely are filmed in a vhs style video.

Stephanie Winarto, A House of Dust (2018)

Keywords: Interaction, javascript, Google Images

Tech Details: Web based, website

Link: https://stephaniewinarto.github.io/ahouseofdust/

Author’s Statement: I created an interactive experience of Alison Knowles’ A House Of Dust using the latest google image searches of her list of vocabulary. Her original work uses an algorithm that enables infinite juxtapositions of word, meaning and happy accidents. My rendition re-imagines her work and situates it in the digital world we live in today: Google images becomes the dictionary that updates the meaning of words used in A House Of Dust from 1967. The interaction gives the user more command over the generation of the poem—a customizable, controllable randomness in this age of easy informational access .

The House of Dust is a poetry project created by Alison Knowles and James Tenney and the Siemens 4004 computer in 1967 using fortran language. An early example of a computer generated poem, creating stanzas by working through iterations of lines with changing words from a finite vocabulary list. An early example of computerised poetry that plays on the unlimited possibilities of the random juxtapositions of words. To create this work, Knowles produced four word lists that were then translated into a computer language and organised into quatrains according to a random matrix. Each of the four lists contains terms that describe the attributes of a house: its materials, location, lighting, and inhabitants. The computer program imposed a non-rational ordering of subjects and ideas, generating unexpectedly humorous phrasing and imagery.

http://www.damnmagazine.net/2016/09/07/the-house-of-dust-by-alison-knowles/

Original Work

Emmett Williams, IBM (1966)

Media: Uses random words from a dictionary to generate an "alphabet of words" from which to build a poem. Details found here (pages 253-255)

New Work

Travis Morehead, This will be an era of man to the power of machine: not man versus machine, but man and machine. In addition to technological change, this new age requires us to change how we do our work (2018)

Media: Searched "IBM" on YouTube and chose the first result, a promotional video posted by IBM. Recorded the audio narration from the video, and randomly chose individual words spoken to construct an "alphabet of words," each word corresponding to a letter of the alphabet. These letter-words were then used to create a poem translating a general company manifesto found on IBM's website.