At Post Spectacular I found the link to an interesting work of computer generated art. Stephen McLaughlin and Jim Carpenter edited a huge fake book. The pdf-file consist of 3785 pages full of poems, that were made by computer, but credits are given to real poem authors. I don’t know if ever a real book was made, but imagine… over 3700 (or 1850) pages! What a big pile of paper.
The computer generated poems itself look good. They feel somehow natural – like poems. I can’t say anything about the artistic quality itself, because I am really not into the art of poems and never was. But the fact that 3700 poems, from authors I never heard of, just come into one book, would really make me suspicious. The cover of the book is labeled “Issue1″. So are the guys planning another one?
