Projecting
Projector Poetry
https://twitter.com/projectorpoetry
Founded December 2019
Projector Poetry is a Twitterbot created in December 2019. The project began in the spring of 2019 when I began to digitize my personal library; in March, there were over 7,000 titles in the collection. The digitization process started with the titles categorized as “poetry.” The automated account @ProjectorPoetry randomly extracts a single line of verse from the first 400 titles digitized.
The Project is part of a series of experiments tied to the digitization of my personal library. These works question the meanings of material collections and their transformation into the digital. They also explore the ways we read, collect, organize, preserve, and share text. This part of the series might also be read as a remix project—each line of verse, a sample. It wants to see what happens when texts collide.