Who Is Code Shakespeare?
Several months ago, I asked the question above. On November 14, 2014, I believe the first ITP Code Poetry Slam may have brought us closer to an answer.
In all the bustle of final projects being due in the past month, I haven’t had a chance to post anything about the code poetry slam I organized in November. Needless to say, the event was an enormous success, thanks mostly to the incredible judges and presenters. I hope to organize another one in 2015.
The judges brought a wealth of experience from a variety of different fields, which provided for some extraordinary discussion. They were:
- Bob Holman
- Nick Montfort
- Allison Parrish
- Daniel Shiffman (in absentia)
This was the schedule for the slam, as written by me on the whiteboard wall of room 50 at ITP:
Rather than providing a blow-by-blow account of proceedings, I’ll direct you to Hannes Bajohr, who did just that.
The entries truly speak for themselves. Those who presented (in order of presentation) were:
- Centrality by Aankit
- The Phrases and Pronunciation by JSON Signal
- Love Poems by Sharang Biswas
- Patent Generator by Sam Lavigne
- @_ALL_OF_US_ by Salem Al-Mansoori
- Recipes of War by Salem Al-Mansoori
- Pentametron by Rajit Bhatnagar
- tokyo heart / night ordinary / jazz eyes by Song Hia
- Thesaurused by Jade Wooing
- Susan Scratched by Caitlin Weaver
- Dada Dial by Aankit
- Yardley, PA 1997 by Todd Anderson
- To release into the ether what was already not there: b1uulyig5hzfwtsxb7bs75wu0 by Jason Dunne
- Today by nsbarr
- Wrapper Node Buddha by Lee Frankel-Goldwater
- Click-a-Pet.php by Steve Bull
Participants and attendees: Please let me know if any of the names or links above need to be changed. Also, if your name is not linked, and you’d like me to link it to something, let me know!
If you missed the ITP Code Poetry Slam, you can attend or submit your work for the Stanford Code Poetry Slam in January.
