Comments on: Chad Hardy Poems

By: Swaggerattack16

Swaggerattack16 — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:15:00 +0000

you ass

By: mjm

mjm — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:55:50 +0000

Naw don’t. Thinking more on it, I found that you talking process made me question what exactly humanity is and why we tend to ‘need’ it from our art. Why we’ll look at a painting different if we were to program various coordinates or codes to go at random intervals — we tend to demean it a little or it looses value. Even if an elephant or a primate paints something, it is considered somewhat human, somewhat alive.

Even if you are picking and choosing there is a supposed cold/mechanical thing between you and something that should exude the, ahem, warmth of what it is to be human.

While opening GEB: the golden braid to a random page, it questioned why a circuit board isn’t considered alive because it isn’t within the realm of what we consider living. Just because a rock is a rock and isn’t a flower, does this not make it alive? Are we crazy to call a rock a living thing?

I actually appreciate the piece more by knowing the process behind it. Sure, it changes my initial statement and sentiment, but it has opened my thinking up more beyond the poem. The sad byproduct of this event is the poem becomes secondary to the more interesting process and questions of the process behind it, whereas before the poem was a central figure.

By: mjm

mjm — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:55:00 +0000

Even if you are picking and choosing there is a supposed cold/mechanical thing between you and something that should exude the, ahem, warmth of what it is to be human.

By: ChadAHardy

ChadAHardy — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:19:55 +0000

Well, now I feel stupid for talking process.

By: ChadAHardy

ChadAHardy — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:19:00 +0000

Well, now I feel stupid for talking process.

By: Seth

Seth — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:17:14 +0000

Please. No room for sentimentality here.

By: Seth

Seth — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:17:00 +0000

Please. No room for sentimentality here.

By: mjm

mjm — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:05:59 +0000

Now I somehow feel cheated out of the experience. Not only that, I feel stupid. I am not sure why.

By: mjm

mjm — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:05:00 +0000

Now I somehow feel cheated out of the experience. Not only that, I feel stupid. I am not sure why.

By: ChadAHardy

ChadAHardy — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:08:33 +0000

It performs a statistical analysis on any number of source texts then offers you a poem that is a synthesis of the properties of each text. The “end-user” can then go in and select sections (one word, one line, the whole thing) that he/she doesn’t like and have the program offer another option. This process is repeated over and over until the “end-user” is happy with the final poem.