Anaïs Berck created the following algoliterary publications that can be generated and read online, or saved on a local disk and printed at home or in a local copyshop.
2021, Walk along the Trees of Madrid
In this book, the Markov chain algorithm simultaneously generates a poem and a walk along the trees of the neighbourhood Las Letras in the centre of Madrid. Despite the impression that there are few trees in the neighbourhood, the algorithm counts 460 of them.
The book was created in June 2021 during a residency at Medialab Prado in Madrid granted by the Vlaamse Overheid as part of their Digital Culture Residencies program.
Read the book online: http://paseo-por-arboles.algoliterarypublishing.net/en
A creation by:
the Markov chains algorithm, of which a description is given in this book
the trees of Madrid, which are geolocated between Medialab Prado, Plaza del Sol and Atocha Renfe, and present in the database Un Alcorque, un Árbol
the human beings Emilia Pardo Bazán, Benito Pérez Gáldos, Jaime Munárriz, Luis Morell, An Mertens, Eva Marina Gracia, Gijs de Heij, Ana Isabel Garrido Mártinez, Alfredo Calosci, Daniel Arribas Hedo.
Read the scientific paper about this work by dr Isabelle Gribomont, published in Nouveaux Cahiers de Marge in July 2024: https://publications-prairial.fr/marge/index.php?id=863
2021, Levenhstein Distance reads Cortázar
The author of this book is the algorithm Levenhstein Distance, the subject is the eucalyptus tree in ‘Fama y eucalipto’, an excerpt from Historias de Cronopios y de Famas by Julio Cortázar.
The book was created for the online exhibition #ÁGORA / CEMENTO / CÓDIGO, organised by LEKUTAN Cultural Association in the International Center for Contemporary Art Tabakalera in Donostia/San Sebastián.
Read the book online: https://levenshtein.algoliterarypublishing.net/
A creation by:
the algorithm Levenshtein Distance
the eucaliptus tree in Historias de Cronopios y Famas by Julio Cortázar, published in 1962 by Editorial Minotauro
the human beings An Mertens and Gijs de Heij
2027, ROOTS
In 2027, as part of the ROOTS project, three more algoliterary publications will be published.