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Comment on 1969: Lillian F. Schwartz & Ken Knowlton’s Observances by peter terezakis

peter terezakis — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:15:55 +0000

To find out more about this important artist, visit her site
http://www.lillian.com which is pretty wonderful. For a real treat, her book The Computer Artist is filled with anecdotes and insights to her world.

Comment on 1721: Jonathan Swift’s writing Engine by Paul Nash

Paul Nash — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:33:59 +0000

I have written a novel, Whispering Crates, about a novel-writing program. I haven’t found a publisher yet. Please contact me if you are curious about it.

Comment on 1964: Baudot, La machine à écrire by Pareja

Pareja — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:05:58 +0000

Your post 1964: Baudot, La machine à écrire | Digital Poetry Overview was very interesting when I found it over google on Monday by my search for ecrire. I have your blog now in my bookmarks and I visit your blog again, soon. Take care. Parejaspareja.es

Comment on 330 A.D. : Florian Cramer & the roots of Permutations by Digital Poetry Overview » Blog Archive » 1959 : Theo Lutz, Stochastic Text

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:59:00 +0000

[...] It seems appropriate to hail Lutz as the first computational-poet (for now: until the archives yield a new figure, until new research reveals that Allan Turing was composing love letters in a basement lab using algorithms as a teenager; or that Ada Lovelace had a functioning Difference Engine; or perhaps as many speculative fiction writers might remind us, some alien civilizations predate our human computer generation by eons; or as Florian Cramer writes: “The oldest permutational text adapted in Permutations is Optatianus Po….) [...]

Comment on 1964: Baudot, La machine à écrire by Digital Poetry Overview » Blog Archive » 1721: Jonathan Swift’s writing machine

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:41:49 +0000

[...] that in 1964, computers were ubiquitous and automated creativity was being explored but as Jean Baudot mentions, humans have always been concerned with automation. Consider the following excerpt from [...]