Short biography
Jean Baudot, a pioneering engineer-linguist, creates the first French machine-generated published poetry.
Published by the Editions du Jour in Montreal,”La machine à écrire mise en marche et programmée par Jean A. Baudot” (“A Writing Machine created and programmed by Jean A. Baudot”) is still circa 2008 available (mildewed and seemingly unread since 1976) in the Concordia library. A rough translation below (by myself) of Jean Baudot’s introduction reveals his language and concerns as strikingly contemporary and lucidly clear. Either time has stood still or it seems that new media evoked unresolved concerns early in its evolution.
(Source: http://glia.ca/conu/digitalPoetics/prehistoric-blog/2008/08/21/1964-bau…)