[-empyre-] Prehistoric Digital Poetry, Funkhouser

[Paul Brown]

For those in London there is a talk tomorrow at the Science Museum  
about what is probably the first example of poetry generation on a  
digital computer - Loveletters - which was written by Christopher  
Strachey to run on the Ferranti Mark 1 in 1952.

The details are here:  http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/20090312.htm

The Loveletters simulator that the speaker will be talking about is  
here:  http://www.alpha60.de/research/muc/

Here's an example:

JEWEL MOPPET
         YOU ARE MY IMPATIENT ENCHANTMENT: MY UNSATISFIED LOVE: MY  
LOVESICK FERVOUR: MY AFFECTIONATE THIRST: MY SEDUCTIVE LOVE.
                                 YOURS IMPATIENTLY
                                            M. U. C.


On 11 Mar 2009, at 08:31, Jim Andrews wrote:

> A book that should be mentioned concerning digital poetry is Chris
> Funkhouser's 'Prehistoric Digital Poetry -- An Archaeology of Forms,
> 1959-1995' ( http://www.uapress.ua.edu/NewSearch2.cfm?id=133757 ,  
> 2007, U of
> Alabama Press). This is the first full-length book on some of the  
> history of
> digital poetry.
>
> There's a related article by Chris at http://tinyurl.com/dbzqks called
> 'Digital Poetry: A Look at Generative, Visual, and Interconnected
> Possibilities in its First Four Decades'.
>
> That article is part of a book available in its entirety, i think, at
> http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companionDLS/ ; the book is A  
> Companion to
> Digital Literary Studies, edited by Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman.
>
> ja
>
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