RERITES : machine learning poetry edited by a human

The RERITES operate as a machine-human hybrid durational writing project.
6-8am for one year, I rose and edited machine-generated poems.
Does the farmer write the fruit found on a branch?
Authorship is fluid.

READ

2017
1. May (198 pages) txt / epub / mobi
2. June (232 pages) txt / epub / mobi
3. July (314 pages) txt / epub / mobi
4. August (227 pages) txt / epub / mobi
5. September (184 pages) txt / epub / mobi
6. October (162 pages) txt / epub / mobi
7. November (384 pages) txt / epub / mobi
8. December (240 pages) txt / epub / mobi

2018
9. January (414 pages) txt / epub / mobi
10. February (318 pages) txt / epub / mobi
11. March (288 pages) txt / epub / mobi
12. April (288 pages) txt / epub / mobi

RERITES Complete [zip file]:
ALL Formats. ALL Months. (13.3 mb)
Txt (for online use: without intros)
ePub (for smartphones, tablets, computers, or e-readers)
Mobi (for Kindle)

Winter 2018: Boxset will be published by Anteism Press
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WATCH the WRITING PROCESS

Code

Forked and modified from public repositories.

Wavenet for Poem Generation
Pytorch Poetry Generation
Avg-Weight-Descent LSTM Poetry Generation

Parent Process: Big Data Poetry

Corpus

Approx. 90%+ contemporary poetry + 10% song lyrics, rap, science articles, tech terms and other internet detritus

Websites: Poetry Magazine, Jacket2, Capa, ABZ, Two River, NSU Creative Writing 323.
Terminology: posthuman, network tech, neurotransmitter, griefwork, erotica.
Excerpts: Yuval Noah Harari, NYT, Aeon.co, DeepMind blog
Curated texts: jhavelikes.tumblr.com
Poems: previous months of Rerites.

Tech

Os: Ubuntu & Mac
Versioning: Anaconda & VirtEnv
GPU: TitanX (setup)

RERITES acknowledges the generous support of an NVIDIA TitanX GPU donated through the NVIDIA Academic Grant Program.

Created by

Jhave @ Glia.ca

RERITES