Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 9: AI Era (2010s)
2017
The Truelist by Nick Montfort
“Nick Montfort, poet and digital media professor at MIT, publishes The Truelist, a computer-generated book-length poem produced by a one-page, stand-alone computer program. The code used to generate the poem is included at the end of the book.”
-Sasha Stiles
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
People
Movements
Computer Text, Generative Poetry
Filed under
- Ideas
- code as material, Computer Text, Generative Poetry, poetry
- Technologies
- programming
- People
- Nick Montfort, Sasha Stiles
- Works
- The Truelist
- Organisations
- MIT
Echoes across time
- ca. 2300 BCE · First Known Author Is a Woman
- 1677 · Artificial Versifying by John Peter
- 1952 · Love-Letters by Christopher Strachey
Le Random editorials
- Generations of Verse, Elisabeth Sweet, July 12, 2023
- 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