I thought this chapter was very interesting and gave me a greater understanding of how computers can be used to create literature in a way that is simply not possible without them. Learning about dada was very interesting and made me think about how I interact with art. The thing I found most interesting was the international aspect of dada as I have not thought about how far art movements can go before. Additionally, learning about the algorithms and randomness that computers were able to give to poetry made me think a lot about the poetry I have read before. It made me think about how carefully authors choose every single word, and how introducing such randomness changes it so much it is almost hard to think of them as the same end product. 

 

 

I really enjoyed learning about Queneau and playing around with the Hundred Thousand Billion Poems. I didn't take the final product into account when creating my sonnet, as just picked the lines I thought sounded the best. The end product does not really make too much sense, but for picking lines at random I do think it's surprisingly cohesive. I also thought of the whole process as part of the work and not just the final product. That created a sort of 'the journey is more important than the destination' sense to the work that I thoroughly enjoyed.