Distant Writing

MITH's Digital Dialogues

03/03/2020 1:00PM

Episode Synopsis "Distant Writing"

How does a poet end up thinking in terms of algorithms, programming languages, and datasets? This talk explores the work of writers of electronic literature who, instead of writing sequences of words directly, create a computer program or modify an existing one to generate their intended texts. The practice of creating and repurposing “engines” encourage [...] The post Distant Writing appeared first on Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.

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