The Infinite Woman: A Computational Poetry Platform
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Title
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The Infinite Woman: A Computational Poetry Platform
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Description
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The Infinite Woman is an interactive erasure poetry platform that remixes excerpts from Edison Marshall’s novel The Infinite Woman (1950) and Simone de Beauvoir’s book The Second Sex (1949). It’s a cross-platform web app hosted at theinfinitewoman.com, and should be compatible with all devices and all internet browsers (except Safari). An n-gram algorithm procedurally generates infinitely scrolling sentences that attempt to describe and critique an eternal feminine essence. Users can select sentences from the infinitely scrolling text to send to a canvas workspace, where they can erase words and rearrange sentences to create their own poems. Meanwhile, fog slowly erases the screen.
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Creator
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Katie Schaag
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Date
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2020
The Infinite Woman