Christian Bök interview on Q
By the Branta Webcrawler • Jun 24th, 2010 • Category: Branta Recommends, Brave New World, From the Interweb, Podcasts, PoetryDoes placing constraints on creativity take the artistry out of art?
Experimental Canadian poet Christian Bök is trying to embed poetry in a super-strong bacterium, and in turn, have it create new poetry.
But in order for this project to be successful, Bök must rely on a computer algorithm to generate word pairs, which restricts the words he can write into his poems.
Today on the show, he explained how his algorithm works. Take a listen, and let us know what you think… does placing constraints on creativity take the artistry out of art?
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