Showing posts with label poetry generator. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry generator. Show all posts

Thursday, 24 May 2012

Vogon poetry generator

If you love Douglas Adams and Hitchhiker's like any true geek, you'll love this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/vogonpoetry/lettergen.shtml

Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz

Anyone else may wonder why we've gone out of our way to generate auto poetry like this:

See, see the old sky
Marvel at its big beige depths.
Tell me, friend do you
Wonder why the genet ignores you?
Why its foobly stare
makes you feel slithery.
I can tell you, it is
Worried by your offddddog facial growth 
That looks like 
A mould. 
What's more, it knows
Your clart potting shed 
Smells of grass.
Everything under the big old sky
Asks why, why do you even bother?
You only charm my cats.

Friday, 4 February 2011

Sound art/poetry: Mark Greenwood performance London February 5th 2011

Mark Greenwood will be performing at [performancespace] on February 5th 2011. For more details go to:http://www.performancespace.org/


Mark first came to poetandgeek's attention (thank you Cris Cheek!) with the project, Parallel Plymouth.

Working in association with Plymouth Arts Centre, he took a series of walks around Plymouth investigating myths, histories and monuments as well as systems for writing poetry. By dissecting the systems of structuring language and using the rules and influences he applies to his text-based work Greenwood, in collaboration with i-DAT, has created a generative software that "writes" or executes poetry.

The software, Greenwood 2.0, generates new poems, which can be viewed on the large public i-DAT Greenscreen situated on the front of the Portland Square Building, University of Plymouth. The software and the poetry are further influenced by its environment through data feeds from sensors such as movement of people, CO2 levels, online search engines and through its own evolving generative system.

More on the project: http://www.i-dat.org/parallel-plymouth-launch

You can still hear some of the results here: http://www.we7.com/#/song/Mark-Greenwood/Parallel-Plymouth.

Mark Greenwood's current website http://www.markgreenwood23.com