Aleator Press
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Publisher, archive, rare book dealer. Promulgating the computer-generated book as a material cultural form. Proprietor: @xfoml.
Minneapolis
Joined March 2020
We have a new release!. "Wendit Tnce Inf" is a letterpress volume of computer-generated poetry by @aparrish. Scroll down or click below to learn more.
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A letterpress-printed book of computer-generated poetry by Allison Parrish.
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Untitled (1985) by Harold Cohen / AARON – $8500. For your consideration is this beautiful machine drawing signed by Cohen and dated 1985. Behold its biotic forms!. We are happy to ship to you wherever you may be.
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A unique work of computer art by Harold Cohen, for sale by Aleator Press.
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RT @sashastiles: received a gift today that has left me nearly in tears. thank you, @xfoml @aleatorpress, for this absolute treasure — @apa….
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RT @aparrish: i have a new book out! it's a collection of asemic prose poems, published in an extraordinarily beautiful handmade letterpres….
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"Wendit Tnce Inf" is available now for $95. Visit our web shop to order a copy!
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A letterpress-printed book of computer-generated poetry by Allison Parrish.
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There are 56 copies of "Wendit Tnce Inf", corresponding to the number of possible outcomes of a simultaneous roll of three indistinguishable dice. Each copy is hand-stamped with one of these unique dice rolls.
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Aleator Press has constructed this edition by hand, with an abundance of care. It’s letterpress-printed (from polymer plates) on fine paper with natural deckle edges, and bound in hand-sewn softcover wrappers with printed French flaps.
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The romanization "Wendit Tnce Inf" is the result of subjecting an image of the book’s title page to a model for optical character recognition.
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Working at the level of words or characters, GANs can produce poetry that is indistinguishable from examples written by humans. But Parrish has instead trained her models at the *pixel* level, yielding prose poems made of peculiar letterforms that are eerily beautiful.
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"Wendit Tnce Inf" is a handmade, letterpress-printed book compiling asemic prose poems that were generated by a suite of generative adversarial networks (GANs) trained by the author, poet Allison Parrish.
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Our third release, a letterpress small edition, is coming soon! Join our mailing list to hear about it first:
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#49. After some delay, the series is back!.
"RAN DUM 1" (2005) by John Pound. A pioneering compilation of comics and other sequential art generated using custom computer programs developed between 1992 and 2005. 🧵
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"Clik-A-Mouse: Computerized Art" (1985) by Gary Wray and Brian James Riedel. A collaborative artist's book filled with stunning early digital art created on an Apple computer. 🧵
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"The AI-Made Comic Book" #1 (2021) by @nimanverse. A print-on-demand graphic novella that was generated using GPT-3 (text) and VQGAN+CLIP (visuals). 🧵
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Here's a few other comics from the series so far.
"Sayings of Zen Fandel" (1985) by K. Greene. This delicate little minicomic—measuring just 11 x 9 cm and "Produced Entirely by Computer Assisted Design"—is among the earliest examples of digital art in comics. 🧵
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This is #49 in a (sporadic) daily series highlighting examples from our collection of computer-generated books. Click below to view the entire series!
365 COMPUTER-GENERATED BOOKS. On each day of 2022, we are highlighting an example from our extensive collection of computer-generated books, spanning 1951–2022. Scroll below for the growing compilation thread, or use this index for easy navigation: 🧵.
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"RAN DUM 1" (2005) was self-published by Pound in an edition of 200 copies, which is now scarce. A print-on-demand second edition (2014) is available on Blurb: OCLC locates no institutional holdings for this pioneering example of generative comics.
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