Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 8: Tooling Era (2000s)
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Ray Kurzweil’s Cybernetic Poet
Ray Kurzweil’s Cybernetic Poet first written in the mid-1980s, creates language models of the works of various human authors and uses language analysis and mathematical modeling to generate original poems “inspired” by these authors.
-Sasha Stiles
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
People
Movements
Computer Text, Generative Poetry
Filed under
- Ideas
- Computer Text, Generative Poetry, poetry
- Technologies
- artificial intelligence, cybernetics
- People
- Ray Kurzweil, Sasha Stiles
- Works
- Ray Kurzweil's Cybernetic Poet
Echoes across time
- 1677 · Artificial Versifying by John Peter
- 1924 · André Breton Writes the Surrealist Manifesto
- 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 8—Tooling Era (2000s) with Christiane Paul, Casey Reas, Christa Sommerer & Golan Levin — listen with transcript on Le Random (15 May 2024, 64 min). Chapter 8’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify