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15/3/2007

bpNichol’s FIRST SCREENING – COMPUTER POEMS

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In 1983/84, on an early Apple computer, the Canadian writer bpNichol created some of the earliest programmed kinetic poems. A group of friends and researchers have retrieved the code (from floppy disks and then Hypercard: both now defunct) and re-created the work in several forms (including a Quicktime video) keeping these historical and interesting pieces alive for a new generation of watchers and technology. Click anywhere on this.

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