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While still a graduate student and UK-based translator and poet, between the late 1970s and mid 1990s, Cayley began to experiment with using programs and algorithms, coded for newly-accessible personal computers, to manipulate and generate poetic texts.
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Poetic generator that spells the time and names moments. Hypercard on disk. Johannes
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