The Poetry Machine, 1998

Computer Installation, Custom Software
Dimensions Variable


 
The Poetic Machine is a custom software that emulates a slot machine and randomly generates poems when people interact and play with it. Trough this work I tried to conceive a post-surrealist method of literary creation that I called the ‘mechanical automatism’, which means the capacity that machines have to produce poetry. The Poetic Machine also offers the possibility of printing the poem created, so users can become collectors of the work.