program

This piece is a remix of the performance program presented at Remediating the Social Conference in Edinburgh November 1st 2012.

Arguably the first work of electronic literature, this 1952 program used Alan Turing's random number generator to create combinatory love letters on the Manchester Mark I computer. While the output may not be of high literary quality, Strachey discovered and implemented the basic the basic structures of combinatory literature, at a very early point in history.