Katherine Parrish

For the first week of winter holidays, I am treating myself to a mental moratorium about anything to do with school, and going for a romp in all the new publications about computer generated text. Like many people into this kind of thing, I am very excited to have in my hot little hands, OUTPUT: Computer Generated Text, 1953-2023, edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montford. From the introduction:

…artists/programmers, author/programmers, and other explorers of computing and language may choose to embrace more conceptual and experimental writing traditions. They may have no interest in developing text generating systems that pass for human. The distinctive voice of the system, may, indeed, by the main point. Poetry especially has been a domain of destabilizing, deforming, and permuting language- by hand and through articulatory text- for hundreds of years. Poets and other literary writers have composed work that sounded like a computer long before computers existed. It should come as no surprise that such people would turn to computers and programming to realize experimental texts.

Yep!

There is a new issue of Re-Mediate, and I’m excited to see what fecund works and thoughts PD Edgar has gathered and published against the lush green background of the site!

Plus a new issue of the AI Literary Review!