Taroko Gorge

Most Powerful Words is a digital literary work comprised of 54 computer-generated poems. There are six themes containing nine poems. Click a theme, then a panel of the theme’s carousel to generate a unique, infinite, recombinant poem. Click ‘Return to [SECTION]’ to return to the carousel menu. Click ‘Return to Main’ to return to this page. Using Montfort’s algorithmically minimal Javascript (for copyright, inspect source), this collection presents all language on the same playing field, allowing contemporary readers to lightly, quickly, precisely, visibly, and consistently traverse the infinite use and misuse of past and present language. Chrome browser recommended. Cultural Sensitivity Warning: This work includes images of and references to people who have died. PM DMs uses the vocabulary of speeches delivered by the first nine Australian Prime Ministers. Most Powerful Words uses the vocabulary of speeches delivered by the nine most powerful people in the world today, according to Forbes magazine. Money Speaks uses the vocabulary from letters, notes, diary entries, poems, speeches and books written by the nine individuals that appear on Australian currency. Indigenous Silence uses the vocabulary from historical policies, speeches, rulings, log-books, and Wikipedia entries that are about/have impacted Indigenous Australians. No words written by Indigenous Australians are used in this section. Concessions uses the vocabulary of concession speeches or regretful musings of the past nine Queensland Premiers. Finally, New Beginnings uses the vocabulary of the first pages of nine notable Queensland novels and works of non-fiction.

A poetry generator for the imaginary city. Tokyo Garage is a remix of Nick Montfort's "Taroko Gorge" -- a nature poem generator built in javascript. Rettberg modified the code and substituted all of the language of Montfort's work to create this poetry generator, which plays with received stereotypes of the Tokyo metropolis and of urbanity in general.

"Hey Gorgeous" by Darius Kazemi is one, in a great number of remixes of the generative work "Taroko Gorge" by Scott Monfort. How Darius Kazemi remixes Monfort's work, is by changing the textstrings in the code, thereby changing the generated text which moves up the screen.

"Hey Gorgeous" pictures a scene in a nightclub, with focus on men and boys, in relation with women, drugs, dancing etc.

Georgeous Twist is based upon Nick Montforts machine based poetry Taroko Gorge.
It show womens different roles in life and the different choices life make for us. This is an everlasting installation that constantly changes it's outcome.

Take Gonzo started as a Taroko Gorge remix, and is now the gateway in to an creative exploration through the electronic literature filed.

Take Gonzo includes a morse code which translates into an English sentence.

Although This work was presented by Scott as being located in the library at the opening of the End(s) of Electronic Literature Festival Exhibition at The Arts Library. Its was in fact not a part of the official Electronic Literature Organization 2015: The End(s) of Electronic Literature festival, and yet it was there.
The meta-story of this "space-hack" should be seen in relation to the history of the physical object itself (TV), (Taroko-remix),e-poetry as well as Foucault work Discipline and Punish, Panopticism and the power institutions.

The digita part of the Take Gonzo was hosted on the secret sub folder together with to the rest of the digital works presented in the End(s) of Electronic Literature Festival Exhibition Kiosk.

A working translation to polish of Taroko Gorge by Nick Monfort.

"Wandering through Taroko Gorge" is a remix of Nick Montfort's "Taroko Gorge", a JavaScript poetry generator. Originating out of a class project in which we were asked to investigate and document how Montfort's creation functioned, this version adds components like hidden illuminations, music generated by the poem using the computer's built in cyclotron, and the ability to add to the poem on the fly. Each of these additions are designed to mimic our investigative process, and help those who have a similar project accomplish the same task of documentation more quickly.

(Source: ELC 3)

Take Ogre is a poetry generator which remixes Nick Montfort's Taroko Gorge--a nature poem generator built in javascript. McNamara modified the code and substituted the language of Montfort's work to create this poetry generator, which describes a game-world with kings, queens, ogres and players as part of the poem. In addition to changing the words of the original poem, McNamara also has changed the background to a home-environment.