P.O.O.L Generative Writing Workshop with artist Patrick White

A workshop exploring the world, broadly defined, of text-based art in a generative context. With a view to the relevant historical contexts, we will explore (by making) text-based artworks...

...involving strategies of:
Randomisation
Chance
Exhaustion
Rule making
Constraint
Games

...using:
Drawing materials
Newspapers
Dictionaries
Typewriters
Computers
Etc.

...employed through:
Physical acts
Mechanical apparatuses
Computer software

...which can:
Cut things up
Break habits
Make up rules
Not follow rules
Create simple computer programs
Use software made by others

...to enable:
Chaotic situations
Recursive algorithm building
Serendipitous data collection
Information trawling

...and make:
Poems
Cut-ups and collages
Plays
Novels
Texts of all kinds

...with a nod to:
Dadaist poetry/Tristan Tzara
William Burroughs
Oulipo
Song lyrics (e.g Cabaret Voltaire)
Early computer art
Net art
Post-internet art
etc.

...in order to investigate:
Creativity
Authorship
Originality
Meaning
Politics

...of art and artists (and anyone) working with producing text.

Email pool.glasgow@gmail.com for any information.