In Generator, poet, musician and performance artist Ian Goodman
explores the parameters of bardic cybernetics and robot love.
Morphing forms of digital interface with traditional poetic
structures, Goodman creates new media out of archaic lyric
artifacts. Generator invites us to see the world through the
reality-twisted lens of Goodmans eye-pod goggle. The result is a
poetics of sensitive observation for the seriously insane. Pretend
robots develop fatal crushes on novella-collaborators through
lavalife.com, pretend poets seduce potential lovers by imagining
poetry out of existence, seagulls suffer from jet-fuel envy, and a
comet-girls sneeze sends a tsunami/ of dust bunnies towards
Mercury. Whether generating interplanetary ballads, cyber chat-room
conversation poems or spam-filtered versions of Pale Fire, Goodmans
fearless approach to formal experimentation makes the world strange
for us again. Ian Goodman is the 21st centurys answer to the
Martian school of poetry.