Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 9: AI Era (2010s)

2019

ReRites by David Jhave

Publication

The twelve-volume ReRites box set photographed against a white ground, the numbered spines running 01 to 12; a photograph of the printed object, not of the generated text.
The twelve-volume ReRites box set photographed against a white ground, the numbered spines running 01 to 12; a photograph of the printed object, not of the generated text. David Jhave Johnston, ReRites, 2017-2019. Published by Anteism Books. Photograph via glia.ca.

“David Jhave Johnston publishes ReRites, billed as one of the first literary works co-authored with neural networks. The project comprises AI-generated text written with a system trained on a corpus of 600,000 lines of poetry, edited by a human (Jhave Johnston).”

-Sasha Stiles

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

Sources

People

David Jhave Johnston, Sasha Stiles

Movements

Computer Text, Generative Poetry

Filed under

Ideas
Computer Text, Generative Poetry, human machine collaboration, poetry, text corpus
Technologies
artificial intelligence, neural networks
People
David Jhave Johnston, Sasha Stiles
Works
David, ReRites

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