11/11

It seems like the biggest difference between MacLow's older work and his later work/inspiration is that computer randomization features heavily in the later works. For example, the 5,000 word source list comprised of a person's name.These works - especially Antic Quatrains - seems a lot more like Gertrude Stein, and the Dadaists, although he explains the sources of the words much better. In fact, it gets VERY like Gertrude Stein by the time the poems are going "decision experience experience experience pocket

decision experience experience

decision."

I like "Unmanifest," it made me giggle, considering how much I hated the manifestos. It also looks as though he looked to Kurt Schwitters for inspiration, and ended up using computer programs that spliced up words and made new combinations, or basically mimicked speech patterns. Which is interesting, but honestly, I don't find as cool as his earlier stuff, the "manual" things that he did with dictionaries and books. I'm confused as to how we're going to adapt these into an idea for a project because it seemed as if he was uising computer programs that were specifically written to do these things (Charles Hartman's programs).