e-poetry generator

Created at the School for Poetic Computation, Book-Book is one of Sarah's first projects. Each instance compares two books and lists the words unique to each.

Sabotage Retroexistencial is a digital poem generator produced by an algorithmic sequence that pertains to the blog novel series of "Kublai Moon", specifically the blog novel "La tierra nunca comprenderá". This algorithmic poetry generator gives the reader access to an unlimited combination of poems and to an infinite text. In the fictional world of Kublai Moon where the story is set, the generator is the creation of the robot Al-Halim, an artificial intelligence engine who searches for the meaning and limits of poetry. 

Mar de versos –Sea of Verses- is a poetic digital work that explores the automatic generation of verses with the creation of the right atmosphere to its reading that includes images and sea sounds. It is programmed in HTML5, javascript and CSS3 using many of the options of this language. It is necessary to turn on the speakers to listen to the sound of the sea. Mar de versos use a technique of patterns –templates-to generate the verses with a wide basis of data from phrases and other words or sub-phrases that can fit with the patterns, therefore poems of different quality are created randomly.

Wordtoys proposes a reading exercise as a task in deciphering that doubles as a narrative toy. It gathers together a series of works on hypertext, e-poetry, and audiovisuals made from 1996 to the present. Framed within the context of net poetry, with roots at the historical forefronts that emphasized the materiality of signs, these works are constructed using randomness, permutability, process, games and re-writes. This sort of digital analogy of a book, a toy book, allows us to access pieces like Procesador de textos Rimbaudeano (Rimbaudean Text Processor) and Escribe tu propio Quijote (Write your own Quijote). In the latter Gache reminds us that in her Quijote, Cervantes the narrator tells us that he is not the author of the book, but that he found it in a manuscript written in Arabic, and she tells us that in 1944, Jorge Luis Borges wrote Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote (Pierre Menard, Author of Quijote), in which the French symbolist attempts to re-write the original text. Gache proposes that we write our own Quijote through a word processor console in which no matter how hard we try to resort to our imagination, we can only write Cervantes’s original text. In the case of El idioma de los pájaros (The Language of Birds), she presents a series of bird automatons who, with synthetic voices, recite poems on birds from famous authors. These birds turned machine-poets have been programmed to recite words. Gache reminds us: “Aren’t words always someone else’s?”( Source: Netescopio http://netescopio.meiac.es/en/obra.php?id=80)