The quote the website's self-description:
"Stanford's first Code Poetry Slam, sponsored by the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (DLCL), was held on November 20th, 2013 in Building 160 (Wallenberg Hall). Following an open call for works from September 20th to November 6th, we selected 8 finalists. At the Slam, finalists presented work ranging from human language poems incorporating concepts and gestures from programming, to poems written entirely in compilable code. They were invited to present their poems in whatever way they saw fit, and performed with various techniques, including poems composed and compiled in an IDE, multimedia audio/visual presentations, and straight readings from a notebook.
A semi-moderated discussion followed the presentations. Finalists talked in depth about their poems and fielded questions from the audience. One theme that came up repeatedly was how code can express things that words can't and how programming makes you think differently about language.
An interdisciplinary group of judges awarded Leslie Wu, Stanford Computer Science PhDc, first place for her poem "Say 23." "
Wow. What a cool re-appropriation of code-based language! Although the meanings of these poems are somewhat obscure to a code-illiterate, some of these works are genuinely funny and fascinating! The way Leslie Wu, in her work "Say 23" uses not only locations and colourcode, but direct references to common experiences and projects first-time coders get started and "hooked" on. It's really is a magnificent adaptation of a new linguistic technology and custom to the poetic virtues!
Wow. What a cool re-appropriation of code-based language! Although the meanings of these poems are somewhat obscure to a code-illiterate, some of these works are genuinely funny and fascinating! The way Leslie Wu, in her work "Say 23" uses not only locations and colourcode, but direct references to common experiences and projects first-time coders get started and "hooked" on. It's really is a magnificent adaptation of a new linguistic technology and custom to the poetic virtues!
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