Black Computational Poetry Reading & Workshop with Dr. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Black Computational Poetry Reading & Workshop with Dr. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Join AADHUM for a day of creative computing, as Dr. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram discusses her work in computational poetry. Come think about data in a whole new way, by focusing on what is brewing at the intersection of digital humanities, electronic literature & Black literary and cultural studies!
Computational poetry is a term given to poems and poetic practice that generate texts out of data science tools and other programming strategies. In many of their poems, Bertram might create a data set out of Gwendolyn Brooks' poetic oeuvre or Wikipedia entries, and then construct poems out of their experience with that output. An example of this kind of work is Bertram's searing and searching "@Tubman's_Rock," which you can read in the Boston Review.
The day features two events with Dr. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram - register for one or both!
11:30 a.m.
As a #BlackDH practitioner, Bertram has expanded the boundaries of electronic literature, Black digital humanities and poetic tradition. In this session, participants will learn about Bertram's work as a poet and as a programmer, and can also learn how to start playing on their own!
1 p.m.
Dr. Bertram will offer a selection of poetry readings followed by a conversation between Bertram and Dr. Marisa Parham, director of AADHum. They will discuss their experiences as creative computing practitioners, with an eye to how their work fits into larger stories about Black creativity and digital humanities.