Author Event: "Output: An Anthology of Computer Generated Text 1953-2023"

An anthology of seven decades of English-language outputs from computer generation systems, chronicling the vast history of machine-written texts created long before ChatGPT.

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram (co-editor of Output) is a poet whose book Travesty Generator was long-listed for the 2020 National Book Award and won the Anna Rabinowitz Prize. Recent publications are Negative Money (Soft Skull) and the chapbook A Black Story May Contain Sensitive Content (DIAGRAM). They’re on the faculty of the University of Maryland, where they direct the MFA in Creative Writing.

Nick Montfort (co-editor of Output) has ten computer-generated books published by seven presses, including #! and The Truelist (both from Counterpath). MIT Press has published his The New Media Reader (a co-edited book), The Future, and Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities. He’s on the faculty at MIT and lives in the East Village.

Charles Bernstein (contributor) is author of twenty books of poetry (one a computer-generated collaboration with Davide Balula) along with numerous others, most recently The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies (University of Chicago Press). He founded pioneering poetry platforms — in print, tape, and online — and has received many awards, including the Bollingen Prize. He lives in Brooklyn.

Robin Hill (contributor) lives in Brooklyn and has written some computer programs that she hopes can be beautiful, interesting, or amusing.

Stephanie Strickland (contributor) is the author of numerous poetry collections, including How the Universe Is Made: Poems New & Selected 1985–2019 (Ahsahta Press) and Ringing the Changes (Counterpath). Her Truth Holder is forthcoming MadHat Press. She lives in Manhattan.

Leonard Richardson (contributor) is a novelist with a day job as a programmer for Bookshop.org. He is the author of Constellation Games (Candlemark & Gleam) as well as the screen-scraping library Beautiful Soup. He lives in Queens.

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