In 1965, in his studio in Warsaw, Opalka began painting a process of counting – from one to infinity. … the artist has pledged his life to its execution: ‘All my work is a single thing, the description from number one to infinity. A single thing, a single life.’
“auto suggestion is a screen based, real-time visualization of the processing of a database of paintings. The work incorporates the full text of Baudelaire’s one surviving notebook “Journaux Intimes”1, 65 hi-resolution scans of paintings that I made during the decade 1989-1999 (at which point I stopped making paintings) …The system takes as its seed Baudelaires prose and runs it through text analysis in turn determining the selection of various areas of color and shape, then recombines them in infinite variations and iterations.”
Racter (an AI program that produced poetic prose) The Policeman’s Beard Is Half Constructed. 1983
This is a picture of a note (p.420) I made to myself while reading JH Prynne ‘Poems’
JH Prynne’s recent poetical works remind me so much of a really sweetly tuned algorithm.
Are poets becoming computers as computers become poets?
“Livecut is based on BBCut the BreakBeat Cutting library written by Nick Collins for SuperCollider
The BBCut Library began out of work on an algorithm to simulate the automatic cutting of breakbeats in the style of early jungle or drum and bass Nick Collins.”
Algorithmic Improvisations on the 74 Unique Words of Gadji Beri Bimba