RERITES | D9 ELMCIP

Human + A.I. poetry.Generated by a computer. Edited by a human.05.2017 - 05.2018. One book a month.A limited edition boxset of 12 poetry books written in one year by digital poet David Jhave Johnston with neural net augmentation. ReRites is accompanied by a book of 8 essays written about the project. Published by Anteism Books, Montreal (2019).ReRites exhibit format also includes over 120 hours of neural-net text-generation videos, 15 hours of editing videos, and often includes a participatory performance component called ReadingRites.Installation views.

(Source: http://glia.ca/rerites/)

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ReRites is a poetic intervention to demonstrate a cultural, altruistic, playful use of A.I..

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ReRites Limited Edition Hardcover Human +A.I. Poetry Boxset

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The ReRites neural network code is adapted from three corporate github-hosted machine-learning libraries: Tensorflow (Google), PyTorch (Facebook), and AWSD (SalesForce). Huge corporations, for profit, mine language for strategic advantage, using their results to sculpt idioms and ideologies and impulses.