365 Computer-Generated Books: An Index
At Aleator Press, we are building an archive of computer-generated printed matter, which we intend to document for scholarly and other use, before ultimately placing it in the special collections of a cultural institution. Our first such documentation effort was a project called 365 Computer-Generated Books: A Thread. The concept was that on each day of 2022, we would create a new Twitter thread highlighting an example from our collection of computer-generated books; unfortunately, the project went on pause after about fifty days. Nonetheless, we present here a sortable index into these daily threads, which are also compiled in order here. Perhaps we will take up the project again sometime in the future.
| Number▼ | Tweeted | Year | Author | Title | Thread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jan. 1 | 1951 | Busa, Roberta | Sancti Thomae Aquinatis Hymnorum Ritualium Varia Specimina Concordantiarum | link |
| 2 | Jan. 2 | 1966 | Anderson, Eric | Opus 1966 | link |
| 3 | Jan. 3 | 1985 | Greene, K. | Sayings of Zan Fandel | link |
| 4 | Jan. 4 | 2020 | Gennart, Liza | Výsledky Vzniku | link |
| 5 | Jan. 5 | 2018 | bleeptrack | Generative Kunst | link |
| 6 | Jan. 7 | 2017 | mathr.co.uk | Morphogenesis | link |
| 7 | Jan. 7 | 2015 | Bök, Christian | MCV | link |
| 8 | Jan. 8 | 1986 | Cobbing, Bob | Point of Departure: A First Book of Computer Graphics | link |
| 9 | Jan. 9 | 1985 | Fencott, Clive | Boatshow | link |
| 10 | Jan. 10 | 2020 | Meerhoff, Jasmin | Access Without | link |
| 11 | Jan. 11 | 1976 | Carmona, Ángel | Poemas V2: Poesía Compuesta por una Computadora | link |
| 12 | Jan. 12 | 2008 | Toton, Ed III | Markov Shakespeare | link |
| 13 | Jan. 13 | 1987 | O'Neill, Douglas | Soap Dada | link |
| 14 | Jan. 14 | 1961 | Osborn, Roger | Tables of All Primitive Roots of Odd Primes Less Than 1000 | link |
| 15 | Jan. 15 | 1973 | Monach, Greta | Compoëzie | link |
| 16 | Jan. 16 | 1972 | Dewar, Robert | A Technical Catalog of Computer Halftones | link |
| 17 | Jan. 17 | 2005 | Morris, Simon | Re-Writing Freud | link |
| 18 | Jan. 18 | 1982 | Walker, Todd | Binary Banana Book | link |
| 19 | Jan. 19 | 2019 | Duvvoori, Kavi | Common Is That They | link |
| 20 | Jan. 20 | 2020 | Parrish, Allison | 200 (of 10,000) Apotropaic Variations | link |
| 21 | Jan. 21 | 1982 | Clark, Ron | My Buttons Are Blue and Other Love Poems: From the Digital Heart of an Electronic Computer | link |
| 22 | Jan. 22 | 2012 | McLaren, Andrew A. | Formal, Logical, Demonstrator: Domtar Colors in Legal Format | link |
| 23 | Jan. 23 | 1980 | Mac Low, Jackson | Antic Quatrains | link |
| 24 | Jan. 24 | 2017 | Cearley, S | In the Water of the Gentle Summer Air | link |
| 25 | Jan. 25 | 2018 | KUMO Kollective | Elongation v. 0 | link |
| 26 | Jan. 26 | 2012 | shardcore | Cut Up: The Great Escape 2012 | link |
| 27 | Jan. 27 | 2016 | Gissen, David | The Appearance of the Letters of the Hollywood Sign in the Smog and at a Distance | link |
| 28 | Jan. 28 | 2021 | Niman, Adam, GPT-3, and VQGAN+CLIP | The AI-Made Comic Book #1 | link |
| 29 | Jan. 29 | 1979 | Ridell, Torsten | Permutations de Lignes: Linjepermutationer | link |
| 30 | Jan. 30 | 1973 | McCauley, Carole Spearin | Six Portraits | link |
| 31 | Jan. 31 | 2021 | Topel, Andew | Flows | link |
| 32 | Feb. 3 | 2015 | Whalen, Zach | An Arthrogram | link |
| 33 | Feb. 3 | 2015 | Jalil, Viviane | Fahrenheit 240 | link |
| 34 | Feb. 4 | 1970 | Kennedy, Rod | The Apocalypse, or the Book of Revelation, as Composed on an R.C.A. Spectra 70 Computer | link |
| 35 | Feb. 5 | 1970 | Ferguson, Gerald | The Standard Corpus of Present Day English Language Usage arranged by word length and alphabetized within word length | link |
| 36 | Feb. 6 | 1993 | Hollister, Valerie | Seven Computer Landscapes | link |
| 37 | Feb. 7 | 1980 | Melpomene | Bagabone, Hem 'I Die Now | link |
| 38 | Feb. 9 | 2019 | Hsieh, Kane | Transformer Poetry: Poetry Classics Reimagined by Artificial Intelligence | link |
| 39 | Feb. 11 | 2019 | Halmond, Bornander | Hell of the Cyr | link |
| 40 | Feb. 11 | 1990 | Russell, Brad and Seth Tisue (eds.) | The Impossible Utterance #3 | link |
| 41 | Feb. 12 | 1994 | Papp, Tibor | Disztichon Alfa: Első Magyar Automatikus Versgenerátor | link |
| 42 | Feb. 14 | 1985 | Wray, Gary and Brian James Riedel | Clik-A-Mouse: Computerized Art | link |
| 43 | Feb. 16 | 2019 | Robinson, Ben | Talking Gibberish to Strangers | link |
| 44 | Feb. 18 | 2015 | Pentecost, Stephen M. | Thomas Browne’s Commonplace Book, or A Network of Texts, or The Garden of Cyrus algorithmically recultivated | link |
| 45 | Feb. 19 | 2020 | ball gag | 404 | link |
| 46 | Feb. 20 | 2019 | Tyka, Mike | Portraits of Imaginary People | link |
| 47 | Feb. 21 | 2017 | Temkin, Daniel | Non-Words | link |
| 48 | Feb. 23 | 2018 | Blonk, Jaap | On Tractatus One | link |
| 49 | Apr. 6 | 2005 | Pound, John | RAN DUM 1 | link |