I just had so much fun interacting with an algorithm to create my first ever poemportrait !This interactive experience was created by artist and designer Es Devlin. How it works is that everyone in the world is invited to donate a word to the poem. The poem is being generated by an algorithm trained on 20 million words of 19th century poetry. Each word you add is then combined with words that have been added by others, and the words from poets who lived a few centuries ago - I love that part! The word I donated was "nebula" and it was so pleasing to see how the algorithm added it to the poem. And then, and this part really surprised me and made me so happy, the program took my picture and made my very own unique-to-me poemportrait! And you can do it over and over. As Es Devlin says, it is almost like a fortune cookie - so true!!Comments are closed.
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