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Generations of Verse - Editorial - Le Random — A Digital Generative Art Institution

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Elisabeth Sweet touches on the history of generative poetry and its impact to this day.

Vera Molnár, Lettre de ma Mère (detail), 1987. Courtesy of the artist ‍ Generations of verse Poetry finds unlikely, yet natural, partners in generative art and blockchains. The links between generative art and poetry stretch back to at least the seventeenth century with Artificial Versifying by John Peter in 1677. The book outlines an algorithmic, deterministic procedure for composing grammatically correct Latin verse. Language artist Sasha Stiles often says that “poetry is the original blockchain” with its distinct ability to transmit information and history within groups and across…

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