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

2019

Travesty Generator by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

Publication · Women Artists

The cover of Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's poetry collection Travesty Generator, with the title in red over a black ground of smeared, half-legible yellow type.
The cover of Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's poetry collection Travesty Generator, with the title in red over a black ground of smeared, half-legible yellow type. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Travesty Generator (Noemi Press, 2019). Cover image via Open Library.

“Lillian-Yvonne Bertram publishes Travesty Generator, a poetry collection that remixes programming codes in explorations of race and gender; the collection is longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award.” -Sasha Stiles

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

Sources

People

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Sasha Stiles

Movements

Computer Text, Generative Poetry

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Ideas
code as material, Computer Text, gender, Generative Poetry, poetry, race
Technologies
programming
People
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Sasha Stiles
Works
Travesty Generator
Organisations
National Book Award

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