Tuesday, 3 June 2014

Computer Code as a form of poetry?

An interesting article today on BBC News describes how Cambridge students were asked to write about a poem, which included no words. The poem, Tipp-Ex Sonate by Andre Letoit consists only of brackets, quotation marks, exclamation marks and question marks. References were made to Robert Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning Drawing or John Cage's 4'33" but it was also mentioned that some could have written about computer code as a form of poetry. I think this a pleasant way to describe it but, I suppose, it depends what is done with it and how it is used. Maybe it should be called ‘the art of maths’ instead of coding?!

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