Literary Generation at DAC

Late yesterday, I wrapped up my long (and very fun) day at Digital Arts and Culture 2009 in Irvine by presenting my paper “The ppg256 Series of Minimal Poetry Generators” in the late afternoon cognition and creativity panel and then by being a part of the extraordinary DAC Literary Arts Extravaganza, quickly presenting selections that I called “Five Uneasy Pieces:”

1. “The Purpling,” a prose poem in hypertext
2. The Marble Index (a work in progress in the interactive fiction system Curveship)
3. “Taroko Gorge,” a poetry generator originally written in 1k of Python
4. “The Two,” a 1k Python story generator (on the screen, I premiered the French translation by Serge Bouchardon – links to both coming soon)
5. “ppg256-2,” one of my 256-character Perl poety generators which my paper discusses