OtherMichael

So, uh, hi.

I make several edits over a couple of months, and then not for several years.

Generative Literature

I'd like to see the Generative art#Literature section expanded properly. I have expanded it marginally, but perhaps not properly.

The page has seen edit wars by involved academics, so tread cautiously.

Possible integrations:

• Flarf_poetry
• Language_poets cf Language_poets#Poetics_of_language_writing:_theory_and_practice (last paragraph):

In the postwar period, John Cage, Jackson Mac Low, and poets of the New York School (John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan) and Black Mountain School (Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, and Robert Duncan) are most recognizable as precursors to the Language poets. Many of these poets used procedural methods based on mathematical sequences and other logical organising devices to structure their poetry. This practice proved highly useful to the language group. The application of process, especially at the level of the sentence, was to become the basic tenet of language praxis. [emphasis added]

• http://www.amazon.com/Generative-literature-generative-art-essays/dp/0919966314
• http://elmcip.net/critical-writing/aesthetics-generative-literature-lessons-digital-writing-workshop
  • the entire paper? http://www.hyperrhiz.net/hyperrhiz06/essays/the-aesthetics-of-generative-literature-lessons-from-a-digital-writing-workshop.html
• http://elmcip.net/critical-writing/principles-and-processes-generative-literature
• Principles and Processes of Generative Literature - Questions to Literature
• rita (software)
• Natural language generation or Natural language generation#Applications
• Computational humor
• Artificial Creativity#Linguistic_creativity
• Applications_of_artificial_intelligence#News.2C_Publishing_.26_Writing - which itself is pretty sparse. There's more that could go in there, particularly Philip M Parker and Automated Insights (see my own notes @ http://www.xradiograph.com/WordSalad/AutomaticForThePeople for some links; Parker, at least, is already in wikipedia.
• Dick Higgins - He was an early and ardent proponent and user of computers as a tool for art making, dating back to the mid-1960s, when Alison Knowles and he created the first computer generated literary texts. His A Book About Love & War & Death, a book-length aleatory poem published in 1972 included one of those. In his introduction, Higgins says, having finished the first three parts of the poem throwing dice, he wrote a FORTRAN IV program to produce part or Cantos four.

Prehistoric Digital Poetry

Would like to add citations to the article on Prehistoric Digital Poetry; I've added some potential sources to Talk:Prehistoric Digital Poetry

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