Creative project invites developers to write 'code poems' By Olivia Solon
Artist and engineer Ishac Bertran has launched a project that invites people to submit poetry written in any coding language. These code poems will be considered for publication in a book. A code poem is simply a poem written in any programming language including C++, HTML, C#, SQL, Objective C, Applescript and Java. Bertran had the idea when he was discussing with friends how it was possible to recognise the author of a piece of code from their programming style. "I thought this was not far from traditional literature, where writers develop their own style," Bertran told Wired.co.uk. "Following the connection, code language is very much like any other language -- it has its own rules and it serves to communicate, with computers in that case. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to use code to communicate with humans, in a very traditional and evocative way: code in a poetry book. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-02/28/code-poems -- Other Info: Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997 Also - Furtherfield Gallery& Social Space: http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery About Furtherfield: http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. http://www.netbehaviour.org http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
