Barrett R Anderson
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Barrett R Anderson
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https://barrettrees.com/
HCI & UX Researcher, PhD in Computational Media
he/him, they/them
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2015 was a great year for DF (and the “cats getting drunk” bug was an all timer)
July 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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this one earned an Honorable Mention at C&C 2025. presentation tomorrow!

joint work w/ Amy Smith (QMUL), @barrettrees.com, @jatazak.bsky.social, @isaackarth.bsky.social, @cheesetalk.bsky.social, @jjyc.bsky.social, & Melissa Roemmele – some of whom are now seeking postdocs / industry research roles…
June 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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nevermind figured it out
June 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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I like @maxkreminski.bsky.social's treatment of a similar idea (which has been stuck in my mind for the past few months), about how the creative nature comes not from "superhuman" (per Brusseau and Turchet) fidelity in poetry generators but rather the lack thereof dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml...
Computational Poetry is Lost Poetry
The genre of “found poetry” encompasses passages of text that were first framed as poetry by someone other than the original writer. But for something to be found, it must first be lost. In an attempt to shed light on the role of computational intelligence in the human creative ecosystem, I argue that many computational generators of poetry function essentially as poetry losers: machines whose central purpose is to arrange units of language, without fully understanding them, in combinations that can later be found to be poetry. This implies a paradox for computational poetry: a poetry machine that too completely understands the poetic effects of its output deprives human readers of the chance to find poetry where the machine did not, fundamentally altering both the reader's poetic experience and the machine's utility. I briefly explore the implications of this view, taking computational poetry as a microcosm of “intelligent” machines in creative contexts generally, and discuss what it means to construct an effective poetry loser.
dl.acm.org
May 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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The cancer thing...I can't let that go. Every single person reading this has either known someone, or been that someone, suffering through the lengthy and painful treatments.

And we were, like...right there.
May 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM