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Laura Caccia • TEDxLondon

The avant-garde frontier of code poetry

Artificial intelligence researcher Laura Caccia describes how people around the world are reshaping the form and definition of poetry using source code. Using an example of her own work, she suggests that this mingling of beauty and functionality in language and technology is a welcome augmentation of an art form that has already been evolving for centuries.

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Artificial intelligence researcher Laura Caccia describes how people around the world are reshaping the form and definition of poetry using source code. Using an example of her own work, she suggests that this mingling of beauty and functionality in language and technology is a welcome augmentation of an art form that has already been evolving for centuries.

This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxLondon, an independent event.

Read more about TEDx.

About the speaker

Laura Caccia

OPENx winner, AI researcher and outdoor swimmer

English Literature graduate Laura Caccia works in the field of artificial intelligence and explores how concepts of creativity will evolve and adapt to a digital future.

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