MEMORY SLAM
Reimplemented computational poetry, electronic literature, and digital literary art that was
originally developed on batch processing systems.
Created for & presented at the first NYU ITP Code Poetry Slam, New York City, November 14, 2014
“Random Sentences” reimplemented & added in response to a commission by Agnieszka Kurant for a
reading in Rhinebeck, New York, July 23, 2016
“Random Poetry” reimplemented & translated as part of the Renderings project; added July 28, 2017
“Generator of Five-Word Lines” added (in its first version) November 7, 2018
This site previously gave the date of Strachey’s love letter generator as 1952. The consensus now is
that the first outputs from the system were posted in August 1953.