Illumination

Lighting up words in sequence on a page creating poetry the machine reviles hidden texts within the text. This interactive installation accepts English articles the visitors bring & transports them to computer generated black-out poetry. The poems animated word by word & line by line fade away as new poetry is unveiled off the original article, leaving the freshly exposed interpretations to dissipate into the paper they're on.
The program equipped with statistical and grammatical rules & data was introduced to thousands of poetic works of authors ranging from Shakespeare to Yates, from Rabindranath Tagore to Lewis Carroll uses machine learning algorithms to build its own poetry in real time using the minimal vocabulary available in the unseen papers.

by Yonatan Ben-Simhon & Jack Kalish
Presented at GeekDown, and at Ventana244, New York, 2011