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I'd like to thank the author for posting this. I spent two years of my BA trying just this sort of thing, recombining text programmatically to produce new work.
by evencounsel 12y ago
I'd like to thank the author for posting this. I spent two years of my BA trying just this sort of thing, recombining text programmatically to produce new work. I traced the history of found art, discovered Goldsmith, and took up programming in my spare time just to pursue this. The first program I ever wrote was a shoddy PHP implementation of MegaHAL: Markov chains and so on, stitching together bits of Twitter fluff. I got a lot of blank stares when I stood up to present in class, and I gave up on procedural poetry -- and poetry in general, really -- after I graduated, thinking that it was just too flimsy an idea for people to accept. I am very, very glad to see that I am not -- or was not -- alone in my thinking. Thanks a lot, thundercomb.
- thundercomb 12y agoyou're most welcome. hearing this encourages me to continue on my journey, to tinker and explore. thank you for the feedback. it sounds like you had fun, and perhaps you could pick it up again... there's certainly a shortage of people exploring the field.
- igravious 12y agoIt is my opinion that traditional poetry will be seen as a proper/strict subset of procedural poetry in time. You are most definitely not alone in your thinking, your idea was too far ahead of its time for those people you presented it to. Do you have your code anywhere online? This was my attempt: https://github.com/igravious/poetify/tree/clean_raine https://github.com/igravious/poetify/tree/clean_raine but it is broken at the moment ... sigh This post makes me want to fix it.