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Title: The Writing Machine of...(2025) by Steve Rushton.<br>
Title: The Writing Machine of...(2025) by Steve Rushton.<br>
A reworking of The House of Dust Redux by Nick Montfort<br>
Machine overview: A reworking of The House of Dust Redux by Nick Montfort<br>
Link:https://nickm.com/memslam/<br>
Link:https://nickm.com/memslam/<br>
based on a 1967 work by Alison Knowles & James Tenney<br>
based on a 1967 work by Alison Knowles & James Tenney<br>

Revision as of 14:51, 10 September 2025

This page is part of the Special Issue # 28 Writing Machines–Protocols–Feedback. It is provides a record of the various writing machines proposed during the production of that Special Issue.

Analog Exquisite Corpse Machine


Writing Machine # 1
Title: Analog Exquisite Corpse Machine (2025) by Steve Rushton
Machine overview:
Five columns of words which can slide up and down to form new sentences. A loose interpretation of the Surrealist Exquisite Corpse.
Media: Paper; Libre Office; glue; alphabet (English)


Machine output (example)

ExquisiteCorpseMachine2.jpg
ExquisiteCorpseMachine3.jpg
ExquisiteCorpseMachine5.jpg
ExquisiteCorpseMachine4.jpg


Writing Machine # 2

Title: The Writing Machine of...(2025) by Steve Rushton.
Machine overview: A reworking of The House of Dust Redux by Nick Montfort
Link:https://nickm.com/memslam/
based on a 1967 work by Alison Knowles & James Tenney
in Python 2/3

Output: HTML page
Output: HTML page of "self-generating poem"

Python code of the above
Output: Code of the above (fragment)