Here\u2019s a first effort (drafted, initially, at 2am on July 22) at a bibliography of computer-generated books.<\/p>\n
These are books in the standard material sense, somehow printed, whether via print-on-demand or in a print run. I may include chapbooks eventually, as they certainly interest me, but so far I have been focusing on books, however bound, with spines. (Updated<\/strong> June 23, 2017: I added the first chapbooks today.) Books in any language are welcome.<\/p>\n So far I have not included books where the text has been obviously sorted computer (e.g. Auerbach, Reimer) or where a text has been produced repeatedly, obviously by computer (e.g. Chernofsky). Also omitted are computer-generated utilitarian tables, e.g. of logarithms or for artillery firing. Books composed using a formal process, but without using a computer, are not included.<\/p>\n I have included some strange outliers such as books written with computational assistance (programs were used to generate text and the text was human-assembled\/edited\/written) and one book that is apparently human written but is supposed to read like a computer-generated book.<\/p>\n I\u2019d love to know about more of these. I\u2019m not as interested in the thousands of computer-generated spam books available for purchase, and have not listed any of these, but let me know if there are specific ones that you believe are worthwhile. I would particularly like to know if some of the great NaNoGenMo books I\u2019ve read are available in print.<\/p>\n Updated in 2016<\/strong> 11:43am July 22: Since the original post I have added Whalen, Tranter, Balestrini, and five books by B\u00f6k. 5:35pm: I\u2019ve added Thompson and Woetmann. 8:37am July 23: Added Bogost. 8:37pm July 24: Added Bailey, Baudot, Cabell & Huff, Cage x 2, Huff, Hirmes. October 12-14: Added Archangel, Seward, D\u00f6rfelt. Updated in 2017<\/strong> June 12: Added Morris, Pipkin. June 23: Added Clark, Knowles 2011, The Maggot, and four chapbooks: Knowles & Tenney, Parrish, Pipkin (picking figs\u2026<\/em>), Temkin. September 5: Added Mize. Updated in 2018<\/strong> September 18: Added the first six Using Electricity books, Montfort, Perez y Perez, Parrish, Zilles, Bhatnagar, L\u00e4ufer; also, Montfort 2018, King Zog, Goodwin. November 29: Added the three Constant 2013 books. Updated in 2019<\/strong> February 21: Added Feldman, Giles, Lavigne x 2, Parrish (The Wcnsske…<\/em>), Waller, Ye. March 5: Added Zolf. September 10: Added Allison, Donnachie, Marche, McConnell, and Soft Ions<\/em>. September 25: Added Brzeski. October 31: Added Moure, Pentecost, and Reed.<\/p>\n Archangel, Cory. Working on my Novel.<\/em> New York: Penguin, 2014.<\/p>\n Allison, Karmel and Gregory Chatonsky. Machines Upon Every Flower.<\/em> Montr\u00e9al: Anteism Publishing, 2019.<\/p>\n Audry, Sofian. for the sleepers in that quiet earth.<\/em> Boston and New York: Bad Quarto, 2018.<\/p>\n Bailey, Richard W. Computer Poems.<\/em> Drummond Island, MI: Potagannissing Press, 1973.<\/p>\n Balestrini, Nanni. Tristano.<\/em> Translated by Mike Harakis. London and New York: Verso, 2014.<\/p>\n Balousek, Matthew R.F. and Emma Stewart. Exchange of Letters.<\/em> A Hive of Mechanical Wasps, third installment. Santa Cruz, 2017.<\/p>\n Balousek, Matthew R.F. Gold Chocobo.<\/em> A Hive of Mechanical Wasps, fourth installment. Mount Vernon, 2018.<\/p>\n Balousek, Matthew R.F. Or, the Whale.<\/em> A Hive of Mechanical Wasps, second installment. Santa Cruz, 2017.<\/p>\n Balousek, Matthew R.F. Post Meridiem.<\/em> A Hive of Mechanical Wasps, first installment. Santa Cruz, 2016.<\/p>\n Baudot, Jean. La Machine a \u00e9crire mise en marche et programm\u00e9e par Jean A. Baudot.<\/em> Montr\u00e9al: Editions du Jour, 1964.<\/p>\n Bhatnagar, Ranjit. Encomials: Sonnets from Pentametron.<\/em> Using Electricity series. Counterpath: Denver, 2018.<\/p>\n Bogost, Ian. A Slow Year: Game Poems.<\/em> Highlands Ranch, CO: Open Texture, [2010].<\/p>\n B\u00f6k, Christian. LXUM,LKWC (Oh Time Thy Pyramids).<\/em> San Francisco: Blurb, 2015.<\/p>\n B\u00f6k, Christian. MCV.<\/em> San Francisco: Blurb, 2015.<\/p>\n B\u00f6k, Christian. Axaxaxas Mlo.<\/em> San Francisco: Blurb, 2015.<\/p>\n B\u00f6k, Christian. The Plaster Cramp.<\/em> San Francisco: Blurb, 2015.<\/p>\n B\u00f6k, Christian. The Combed Thunderclap.<\/em> San Francisco: Blurb, 2015.<\/p>\n Brzeski, Samuel. I laugh while crying. And I barely cry. What\u2019s wrong with me?<\/em> TEXSTpress, Bergen. 2019<\/p>\n Cabell, Mimi, and Jason Huff. American Psycho.<\/em> Vienna: Traumavien, 2012.<\/p>\n Cage, John. Anarchy (New York City, January 1988).<\/em> Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1988.<\/p>\n Cage, John. I-IV.<\/em> Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.<\/p>\n Carpenter, J. R. GENERATION[S]<\/em> Vienna: Traumawien, 2010.<\/p>\n Cayley, John and Daniel C. Howe, How it Is in Common Tongues.<\/em> Providence: NLLF, 2012.<\/p>\n Cayley, John. Image Generation.<\/em> London: Veer Books, 2015.<\/p>\n Chamberlin, Darick. Cigarette Boy: A Mock Machine Mock-Epic.<\/em> [Seattle]: Rogue Drogue: 1991.<\/p>\n Chan, Paul. Phaedrus Pron.<\/em> Brooklyn: Badlands Unlimited, 2010.<\/p>\n Clark, Ron. My Buttons Are Blue and Other Love Poems from the Digital Heart of an Electronic Computer.<\/em> Woodsboro, Maryland: Arcsoft Pub, 1982.<\/p>\n Constant Verlag Brussels. The Death of the Authors: James Joyce & Rabindranath Tagore & Their Return to Life in Four Seasons.<\/em> Brussels, Belgium. 2013.<\/p>\n Constant Verlag Brussels. The Death of the Authors: Rabindra[na]th Tagore & Virginia Woolf & Their Return to Life in Four Seasons.<\/em> Brussels, Belgium. 2013.<\/p>\n Constant Verlag Brussels. The Death of the Authors: Sherwood Anderson & Henri Bergson & Their Return to Life in Four Seasons.<\/em> Brussels, Belgium. 2013.<\/p>\n Daly, Liza. Seraphs: A Procedurally Generated Mysterious Codex.<\/em> [San Francisco]: Blurb, 2014.<\/p>\n Donnachie, Karen Ann and Andy Simionato. A Nonhuman Reading of Sabri Cetinkunt’s Mechatronics (2006): Part A.<\/em> The Library of Nonhuman Books, 2019.<\/p>\n Feldman, Shira. the limits of my language are the limits of my world.<\/em> n.p., n.d.<\/p>\n Friedhoff, Jane. it is a different\/friction.<\/em> 2015.<\/p>\n Fuchs, Martin and Peter Bichsel. Written Images.<\/em> 2011.<\/p>\n Funkhouser, Christopher. Electro \u00feerdix.<\/em> Propolis Press. Least Weasel Chapbook Series. 2011.<\/p>\n Giles, Harry Josephine and Martin O’leary. New Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (Dialecty).<\/em> Book Works, 2018.<\/p>\n Goodwin, Ross. 1 the Road.<\/em> Jean Bo\u00eete \u00c9ditions: Paris, 2018.<\/p>\n Hartman, Charles and Hugh Kenner. Sentences.<\/em> Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1995.<\/p>\n Held\u00e9n, Johannes and H\u00e5kan Jonson. Evolution.<\/em> Stockholm, OEI Edit\u00f6r, 2014.<\/p>\n Hirmes, David. Directions From Unknown Road to Unknown Road.<\/em> [Handmade edition of 10.] The Elements Press: 2010.<\/p>\n Huff, Jason. Autosummarize.<\/em> [McNally Jackson]: 2010.<\/p>\n Kennedy, Bill and Darren Wershler-Henry. Apostrophe.<\/em> Toronto, ECW Press, 2006.<\/p>\n Kennedy, Bill and Darren Wershler. Update.<\/em> Montr\u00e9al: Snare, [2010.]<\/p>\n King Zog. Google, Volume 1.<\/em> Jean Bo\u00eete \u00c9ditions: Paris, 2013.<\/p>\n Knowles, Alison, James Tenney, and Siemens System 4004. A House of Dust.<\/em> K\u00f6ln & New York: Verlag Gebr. K\u00f6nig, 1969.<\/p>\n Knowles, Alison. Clear Skies All Week.<\/em> Onestar Press, 2011.<\/p>\n Larson, Darby. Irritant.<\/em> New York and Atlanta: Blue Square Press, 2013.<\/p>\n L\u00e4ufer, Milton. A Noise Such as a Man Might Make.<\/em> Using Electricity series. Counterpath: Denver, 2018.<\/p>\n Lavigne, Sam. SELF HELP BOOK<\/em>. New York, NY: Self Published, 2018.<\/p>\n Lavigne, Sam. Taxonomy of Humans According to Twitter.<\/em> New York, NY: Self Published, 2018.<\/p>\n Maggot, The. Heroic Real Estate Otter of the 21st Century.<\/em> lulu.com, 2013.<\/p>\n Marche, Stephen. “Twinkle, Twinkle.” Wired.<\/em> Dec. 2017, pp. 108-115.<\/p>\n McConnell, Gregory Austin. Today is Spaceship Day<\/em>. n.p., 2019.<\/p>\n Mize, Rando. Machine Ramblings.<\/em> n.p., 2016.<\/p>\n Montfort, Nick. World Clock.<\/em> Cambridge: Bad Quarto, 2013.<\/p>\n Montfort, Nick. Zegar ?wiatowy.<\/em> Translated by Piotr Marecki. Krakow: ha!art, 2014.<\/p>\n Montfort, Nick. #!<\/em> Denver: Counterpath, 2014.<\/p>\n Montfort, Nick. Megawatt.<\/em> Cambridge: Bad Quarto, 2014.<\/p>\n Montfort, Nick, Serge Bouchardon, Carlos Le\u00f3n, Natalia Fedorova, Andrew Campana, Aleksandra Malecka, and Piotr Marecki. 2\u00d76.<\/em> Global Poetics series. Los Angeles: Les Figues, 2016.<\/p>\n Montfort, Nick. The Truelist.<\/em> Using Electricity series. Counterpath: Denver, 2018.<\/p>\n Montfort, Nick. Hard West Turn.<\/em> Cambridge: Bad Quarto, 2018.<\/p>\n Moure, Er\u00edn. Pillage Laud.<\/em> Moveable Books, 1999. BookThug, 2011.<\/p>\n Morris, Simon. Re-writing Freud.<\/em> York, England: Information as Material, 2005.<\/p>\n Parrish, Allison. The Ephemerides.<\/em> Access Token Secret Press, 2015.<\/p>\n Parrish, Allison. Articulations.<\/em> Using Electricity series. Counterpath: Denver, 2018.<\/p>\n Parrish, Allison. The Wcnsske-Gonshanshcoma Reconstructions.<\/em> QUEER.ARCHIVE.WORK, 2018.<\/p>\n Pentecost, Stephen M. Thomas Browne’s Commonplace Book.<\/em> robineggsky.com, 2016.<\/p>\n P\u00e9rez y P\u00e9rez, Rafael. Mexica: 20 Years\u201320 Stories [20 a\u00f1os\u201320 historias].<\/em> Using Electricity series. Counterpath: Denver, 2017.<\/p>\n Pipkin, Katie Rose. picking figs in the garden while my world eats Itself.<\/em> Austin: Raw Paw Press, 2015.<\/p>\n Pipkin, Katie Rose. no people.<\/em> Katie Rose Pipkin, 2015.<\/p>\n Racter. “Soft Ions.” Omni<\/em>. Oct. 1981, pp 96-148.<\/p>\n Racter, The Policeman\u2019s Beard is Half Constructed.<\/em> Illustrations by Joan Hall. Introduction by William Chamberlain. New York: Warner Books, 1984.<\/p>\n Reed, Aaron A. Subcutanean.<\/em> USA, 2019.<\/p>\n Ros\u00e9n, Carl-Johan. I Speak Myself Into an Object.<\/em> Stockholm: Rensvist F\u00f6rlag, 2013.<\/p>\n D\u00f6rfelt, Matthias. I Follow.<\/em> Series of unique flip-books with computer-generated aspects of animation. Made by the artist. 2013-present.<\/p>\n Seward, Rob. Death Death Death.<\/em> VHS Design LLC, 2010.<\/p>\n Stewart, Emma. My Lovers Learn About the Economy of Debt.<\/em> n.p., n.d.<\/p>\n Stewart, Emma. Slapping Bandaids on Earthquakes: Thoughts about life under surveillance.<\/em> n.p., n.d.<\/p>\n Temkin, Daniel. Non-Words.<\/em> Edition of 100, each with unique words generated by same algorithm used in @nondenotative. n.d.<\/p>\n Thompson, Jeff. Grid Remix: The Fellowship of the Ring.<\/em> San Francisco: Blurb, 2013.<\/p>\n [Tiar, Louis-Charles]. Let us Now Praise 5,202 Persons.<\/em> n.p., n.d.<\/p>\n Tranter, John. Different Hands.<\/em> North Fremantle, Australia: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1998.<\/p>\n Walker, Nathan. Action Score Generator.<\/em> Manchester: if p then q, 2015.<\/p>\n Waller, Angie. Seeing Like a Computer.<\/em> New York, NY: Unknown Unknowns, 2018.<\/p>\n Whalen, Zach. An Anthrogram.<\/em> Fredericksburg, Virginia: 2015.<\/p>\n Woetmann, Peter-Clement. 105 Variationer.<\/em> Cophenhagen: Arena, 2015.<\/p>\n Ye, Katherine and A. Zhou. Hyperbible.<\/em> SVN Systems, 2017.<\/p>\n Zilles, Li. Machine, Unlearning.<\/em> Using Electricity series. Counterpath: Denver, 2018.<\/p>\n Zolf, Rachel. Human Resources.<\/em> Coach House Books: Toronto, 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here\u2019s a first effort (drafted, initially, at 2am on July 22) at a bibliography of computer-generated books. These are books in the standard material sense, somehow printed, whether via print-on-demand or in a print run. I may include chapbooks eventually, as they certainly interest me, but so far I have been focusing on books, however … <\/p>\n