The Inspiration Machine: Computational Creativity in Poetry and Jazz

Explores how creative digital technologies and artificial intelligence are embedded in culture and society.

In The Inspiration Machine, Eitan Y. Wilf explores the transformative potentials that digital technology opens up for creative practice through three ethnographic cases, two with jazz musicians and one with a group of poets. At times dissatisfied with the limitations of human creativity, these artists do not turn to computerized algorithms merely to execute their preconceived ideas. ...