Code poetry is literature that intermixes notions of classical poetry and computer code. Unlike
digital poetry
Digital poetry is a form of electronic literature, displaying a wide range of approaches to poetry, with a prominent and crucial use of computers. Digital poetry can be available in form of CD-ROM, DVD, as installations in art galleries, in c ...
, which prominently uses physical computers, code poems may or may not run through executable binaries. A code poem may be interactive or static, digital or analog. Code poems can be performed by computers or humans through spoken word and written text.
Examples of code poetry include: poems written in a programming language, but human readable as poetry; computer code expressed poetically, that is, playful with sound, terseness, or beauty.
A variety of events and websites allow the general public to present or publish code poetry, including Stanford University's Code Poetry Slam, the PerlMonks Perl Poetry Page, and the International Obfuscated C Code Contest.
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See also
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Black Perl - A poem in perl
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PerlMonks – New poems are regularly submitted to the community
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Recreational obfuscation - Writing code in an obfuscated way as a creative brain teaser
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School for Poetic Computation
The School for Poetic Computation (SFPC) is a hybrid of a school, residency and research group that was founded in 2013 in New York. A small group of students and faculty work closely to explore the intersections of code, art, hardware and the ...
References
Bibliography
* Francesco Aprile, ''Code Poems: 2010-2019'', Post-Asemic Press (2020).
* Charles Hartman, ''Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry'' (Wesleyan Poetry), Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press (1996).
* Ishac Bertran, ''code '', Barcelona: Impremta Badia (2012).
External links
Daniel Holden & Chris Kerr's multi-lingual code poetry collectionFrancesco Aprile, Computer poems. Dall’archeologia al source code poetry, in Utsanga.it, #09, september 2016*
ttps://www.wired.com/magazine/2013/04/code/ Wired Magazine: Code Isn’t Just Functional, It’s PoeticGitHub: Leslie Wu's Stanford code poetry slam winning entryFrancesco Aprile code poetry source since 2010ChucKu: 3 lines of code
Poetry movements
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