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Theo Lutz Max Bense

1961

Prose/Poetry (Computer-Generated)

The Library

Description

Max Bense’s Rot #6: Modelle is the sixth volume in the art-book series published by Bense and Elisabeth Walther-Bense. It focuses on Bense’s pioneering work in what he called “artificial poetry,” which fused avant-garde literary experimentation with technical innovation—and paved the way for the text generation systems of today.

Published in German, the volume contains two texts generated by a computer mainframe, the ZUSE Z22 at the University of Stuttgart’s computing center. One of these is a stochastic text programmed by the computer scientist Theo Lutz, which applies grammar rules to the recombining of words drawn from a corpus of texts—also printed in the book—by figures including Gertrude Stein, Jean Genet, and Hegel.

The other is a Markovian text, using probability calculations based on a frequency dictionary compiled by Walther-Bense, derived from work by French poet Francis Ponge. (The technical implementation was by Monika Bense.)

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Stochastische Texte (Augenblick 1'4) Theo Lutz / Max Bense 1959 Prose/Poetry (Computer-Generated)

Synthesized Speech Bell Telephone Laboratories (Bell Labs) 1961 Music/Sound

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Permutation — permutationeller computer-text Timm Ulrichs 1971 Prose/Poetry (Computer-Generated)

A House of Dust Alison Knowles / James Tenney 1967 Prose/Poetry (Computer-Generated)