Week 11: Generative Poetry

Tuesday, October 29

• In class:
  • Lecture and Discussion of generative electronic literature.
  • Taroko Gorge by Nick Montfort
  • Taroko Gorge and its Remixes
  • Loveletters by Christopher Strachey
  • Memory Slam by Nick Montfort
  • Sea and Spar Between by Stephanie Strickland and Nick Montfort
• Assignment:
  • Read The Policeman's Beard Is Half Constructed
  • Explore your assigned NaNoGenMo year, reading at least 5 completed novels.
  • Write a paragraph long analysis for each of the two you found most interesting. Post in our Group Me before class on Thursday, along with a link to each novel.

Thursday, October 31

• Online Class:
  • Discussion of assigned generative novels:
    • Post your responses to your 2 NaNoGenMo novels by 6:15 pm today.
    • Read one of the novels posted by each of your classmates and respond to it with a paragraph-long response that engages what others have said about that novel. Feel free to start a conversation.
• For Monday:
  • Discussion of generative tools:
    • markov chain generators
    • automated word substitution (see Gizoogle and the Pornolizer)
    • The Deletionist
  • Introduction to bots
    • Eliza by Joseph Weizenbaum
    • When Eliza Met Parry
• Assignment:
  • Read When an AI Goes Full Jack Kerouac
  • Read all the bots featured in the ELC3
  • Explore Genre: Bot in I ♥︎ E-Poetry
  • Write a paragraph long analysis for each of the two you found most interesting (one from the ELC3 and one from I ♥︎ E-Poetry). Post in our Group Me before class on Thursday, along with a link to each bot.