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Code is Poetry. !/?. Shaken Camille Utterback. Casey Reas Process. David Rokeby Very Nervous System. What distinguishes software art from other artisticpractices, is that, unlike any form of visual art, it requires the artist to write a purely verbal description of their work.
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Code is Poetry !/?
Shaken Camille Utterback Casey Reas Process David Rokeby Very Nervous System
What distinguishes software art from other artisticpractices, is that, unlike any form of visual art, it requires the artist to write a purely verbal description of their work. - Christiane Paul We hoped to look at software as a kind of creative writing, a writing that might be evaluated both for doing what it set out to do and as a means of expression in and of itself. - John F. Simon, Jr.
Oulipo "workshop of potential literature” The first known proposal for writing poetry in computer programming languages is from 1962 and appeared in the first manifesto of the Oulipo, a group of poets and mathematicians founded by Raymond Queneau. It was not until 1972 that the first Oulipo poem was published in Algol. Raymond Queneau
one of several high level languages designed specifically for programming scientific computations. • designed by an international committee to be a universal language. • ALGOLrithmic Language Hello World Example // the main program (this is a comment) BEGIN FILE F (KIND=REMOTE); EBCDIC ARRAY E [0:11]; REPLACE E BY "HELLO WORLD!"; WHILE TRUE DO BEGIN WRITE (F, *, E); END; END.
Perl - the language of Love ? • Perl is an open source, cross platform programming language created by Larry Wall and released in 1987 "love.pl": our $life = ¥$love and $togetherness; and: foreach my $sweet (@first) { little: until ($we . $met) { last 'and' } } if ($now . $we) { goto marry; $we . $shall } bless our $life, More;
Concrete poetry as defined by the NOIGANDRES group of Brasil1958 • It appeals to nonverbal communication. The concrete poem communicates its own structure: structure-content. Its problem: a problem of functions-relations of this material. • Its material is sound, visual form and semantical charge