Tezos

YOUR INFINITE ZERO. MY STEADFAST ONE.

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“Binary me, you said, querying. Your infinite zero. My steadfast one. The two of us speaking in code as always in a world of symbols.” Generative repetition of the opening lines from the title poem in the book TECHNELEGY by Sasha Stiles, translated into machine speak. Part of an ongoing series exploring the relationship between poetic repetition and generative art. “Repetition—the use of the same term several times—is one of the crucial elements in poetry… It is one of the most marked features of all poetry, oral and written, one of the primary ways we distinguish poetry itself. Repetition, as in rhyme, is a strong mnemonic device. Oral poets especially use it for remembering structures. The incantatory magic of poetry—think of spells and chants, of children’s rhymes and lullabies—has something to do with recurrence, with things coming back to us in time, sometimes in the same way, sometimes differently. Repetition is the primary way of creating a pattern through rhythm. Meaning accrues through repetition. One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry. It creates expectations, which can be fulfilled or frustrated. It can create a sense of boredom and complacency, but it can also incite enchantment and inspire bliss… Repetition can be so insistent that it spills over into obsessiveness…” –Edward Hirsch, A Poet's Glossary #REPETAE

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generative art

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generative poetry