For those in London there is a talk tomorrow at the Science Museum about what is probably the first example of poetry generation on a digital computer - Loveletters - which was written by Christopher Strachey to run on the Ferranti Mark 1 in 1952.
The details are here: http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/20090312.htm The Loveletters simulator that the speaker will be talking about is here: http://www.alpha60.de/research/muc/ Here's an example: JEWEL MOPPET YOU ARE MY IMPATIENT ENCHANTMENT: MY UNSATISFIED LOVE: MY LOVESICK FERVOUR: MY AFFECTIONATE THIRST: MY SEDUCTIVE LOVE. YOURS IMPATIENTLY M. U. C. On 11 Mar 2009, at 08:31, Jim Andrews wrote: > A book that should be mentioned concerning digital poetry is Chris > Funkhouser's 'Prehistoric Digital Poetry -- An Archaeology of Forms, > 1959-1995' ( http://www.uapress.ua.edu/NewSearch2.cfm?id=133757 , > 2007, U of > Alabama Press). This is the first full-length book on some of the > history of > digital poetry. > > There's a related article by Chris at http://tinyurl.com/dbzqks called > 'Digital Poetry: A Look at Generative, Visual, and Interconnected > Possibilities in its First Four Decades'. > > That article is part of a book available in its entirety, i think, at > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companionDLS/ ; the book is A > Companion to > Digital Literary Studies, edited by Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman. > > ja > > _______________________________________________ > empyre forum > empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au > http://www.subtle.net/empyre ==== Paul Brown - based in the UK March 2009 mailto:p...@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com UK Mobile +44 (0)794 104 8228 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 Skype paul-g-brown ==== Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ==== _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
