First Stanford code poetry slam reveals the literary side of computer code
Organized by Melissa Kagen, a graduate student in German studies, and Kurt James Werner, a graduate student in computer-based music theory and acoustics, the event was designed to explore the creative aspects of computer programming. With presentations that ranged from poems written in a computer language format to those that incorporated digital media, the slam demonstrated the entrants’ broad interpretation of the definition of “code poetry.” Kagen and Werner developed the code poetry slam as a means of investigating the poetic potentials of computer-programming languages.
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