{"id":73945,"date":"2022-10-08T17:56:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T21:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/?p=73945"},"modified":"2022-10-08T17:56:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T21:56:22","slug":"lo-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/2022\/10\/08\/lo-06\/","title":{"rendered":"LO: 06"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When thinking about randomness, my mind went straight to Dada, specifically Dada poetry. So much of Dada itself is left up to chance: the process, the reaction, the viewer, the artist: this is especially true with Dada poetry. Paradoxically, Dada poetry often both gave instruction on how to create Dada art while considered a piece of Dada art itself. Tristan Tzara’s 1920 To Make a Dadaist Poem<\/em> is a great example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Pick up a newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take some scissors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Choose in the newspaper an article of length that tells you to give your poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cut out the item.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carefully cut out each of the words that make up the item carefully and put them in a bag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shake gently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now pull each cutting one after another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copy conscientiously<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the order they have left the bag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The poem will resemble you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you are an infinitely original writer and a bewitching sensibility, although misunderstood by the vulgar.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is obvious randomness in the actions described: random newspaper, random words, random order. But Tzara’s call to action is also given to a random artist. This serves the Dada goal of nonmeaning well. I have also been considering the fact that Dada poetry that prompts viewer response is similar in a lot of ways to programming. Obviously there are differences, but the fact that one is given a list of instructions to follow, usually phrased particularly does connect the two in my mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\" — excerpt of Dada poetry<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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