the apostrophe engine | beta | Darren Wershler-Henry with Bill Kennedy

you are a deftly turned phrase, an etymological landscape, a home by the sea •

THE PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS AS ASSEMBLED BY DR. ZHIVAGO, OCULIST

INSTRUCTIONS • Step 1: Click an Element to view a poem and optionally click on Add to submit it to the reaction. Add as many Elements as you like. • Step 2: Choose the procedure to facilitate the reaction: dissolve stir heat dilute centrifuge • Step 3: Click REACT to create a new poem.

Eno at Pop Start:
"...what Darwin did for life, we need to do for culture..."
"...culture is the way we look at ourselves, with which we can surrender...and try out different ways of being and feeling..."

Roxik -- Masayuki Kido

Kate Armstrong

L'attente, the waiting / Flussgeist 1 (2007) Gregory Chatonsky

Benedikt Groß

Thoems

Spore:

...a simulation that
"ranges from the molecular phase to the galactic phase"
[DICE 2007 Summit speech]

HarS :

"...ookoi at arti...The kibibyte is a collection of one thousand and twenty four seven second extracts"

Rokeby 2001 -- Machine for Taking Time

"Every day since March 28, 2001, the system has been taking still images from 1079 pre-determined positions along a sweeping path around the garden."

Lincoln Schwartz 2007 -- backward
"This work remembers. It creates layers of the history of the space, recombining disparate topics from consumer housewares to medical technology back into one study of a specific location."

Tristan Tzara's dada cut-up newspaper poem game in multimedia form

Crystalpunk: Meaning is to language what Soup is to a Fork

"Crystalpunk is a panoply of ideas revolving around the same few Wandering Stars: the Game of Go and the Game of Life, the origin of language and the origin of mind, the suspected but never-realised capabilities of mind, matter, memory and computers whispered into your inner ear by unknown writers and succumbi, the power of abstraction and a melancholy for the noise lost, the BacterioPoetic and the cybernetic writing machine envisaged by Italo Calvino and William S. Burroughs"

Videotage --- Writing Machine Collective 2nd edition

The following is not a dream... You walk by a desk, or you touch upon a desk surface by accident...and the desk starts to type itself. You walk by an ordinary stand-up lamp and a voice, half-human, half-machine, chants something almost comprehensible but not quite.