Episode 34: Output

In this episode we are joined by co-authors Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort to talk about their new publication Output: An Anthology of Computer Generated Text, 1953-2023. We learn about their path into digital poetry and the process of putting together this anthology.

References

Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne. (2019). Travesty generator. https://www.nationalbook.org/books/travesty-generator/

Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne, & Montfort, Nick (Eds.). (2024). Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023. https://direct.mit.edu/books/edited-volume/5867/OutputAn-Anthology-of-Computer-Generated-Text-1953

Gysin, Brion, & Sommerville, Ian. (1960). Permutation Poems.https://davidpocknee.ricercata.org/gysin/

Knowles, Alison, & Tenney, James. (1967). The House of Dust.https://theverseverse.com/poems/the-house-of-dust

Lutz, Theo. (1959). Stochastic Texts https://www.stuttgarter-schule.de/lutz_schule_en.htm

Montfort, Nick. (2017). The Truelist. https://counterpathpress.org/the-truelist-nick-montfort

Montfort, Nick, & Wardrip-Fruin, Noah (Eds.). (2003). The New Media Readerhttps://www.newmediareader.com/

Nish-Lapidus, Matt. (2020). Work, Life, Balance. https://www.aleator.press/shop/p/work-life-balance

Richardson, Leonard. (2013). Alice’s Adventures in the Whale. Stiles, Sasha. (2021). Technelegy. https://www.sashastiles.com/technelegyhardcover

Strachey, Christopher. (1953). Love Letters https://alpha60.de/art/love_letters/manchester_gallery/

Yngve, Victor H. (1961). Random Sentences https://literaryai.library.columbia.edu/litai/i36/This work was partially supported by the Research Council of Norway Centres of Excellence, project number 332643, Center for Digital Narrative.