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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
combs@mastodon.art ("Chris Combs (he/him)") wrote:
this is "POET.EXE," a new artwork which embodies a computational poem, "Rage Fire," written by Casey Smith.
There are four lines in each reading of the poem—but each has 250 possible variations.
"POET.EXE" allows you to change one line of the poem—but the others will change uncontrollably when you do.
It is on display at the Delaware College of Art + Design through mid-October.
Attachments:
- A strange machine hangs on a wall. Its vibe is bureaucratic and industrial, or so I intend. There are four screens which can move left or right, thanks to their motors, which are hanging out in the open. At the bottom there is a metal panel lit by a small light with four grooves. Touching the grooves causes the corresponding carriage to move—and changing the line of the poem. It currently reads: "Solitary volume greeted / dart like darting birds / south-wind / like a fairy dream" (remote)
- a side view makes the shallow depth of the machine more clear. It reads: "Red moons lamp / daggers of ice / diamonds in the sun / sparks from an anvil" (remote)
- Just the screens, closer up. They are formed with red dot-matrix LED matrices. Same poem as the first image: "Solitary volume greeted / dart like darting birds / south-wind / like a fairy dream" (remote)
- A view of the touch-sensitive grooves, which each read "Output Shaping 1" (and so on) in the font Futura. The last line of the poem, only, is visible: "arrows to their marks" (remote)
