Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 9: AI Era (2010s)
2015
Oscar Schwartz gives a TEDx Talk on Computational Poetics

“Writer and poet Oscar Schwartz gives a TEDx Talk on computational poetics, exploring the human reaction to poetry generated by machines.”
-Sasha Stiles
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
People
Movements
Computer Text, Generative Poetry
Filed under
- Ideas
- computational poetics, Computer Text, Generative Poetry, poetry
- People
- Oscar Schwartz, Sasha Stiles
- Works
- Can a computer write poetry?
- Organisations
- TEDx
Echoes across time
- 1924 · André Breton Writes the Surrealist Manifesto
- 1677 · Artificial Versifying by John Peter
- ca. 2300 BCE · First Known Author Is a Woman
Le Random editorials
- Sasha Stiles and Martha Joseph on Language as Technology, Peter Bauman, September 10, 2025
- Sasha Stiles on Writing Poets, Peter Bauman, January 25, 2024
Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 9—AI Era (2010s) with Tyler Hobbs, Helena Sarin, Rhea Myers & Gene Kogan — listen with transcript on Le Random (30 Jul 2024, 51 min). Chapter 9’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify