spine sonnet

Spine Sonnet is a random poem generator that creates 14 line poems (sonnets) from the titles of art monographs, art theory, art and architectural history and art criticism books. The titles are drawn from a database of over 2500 books and represent the partial inventory of Art Catalogues, DAP and Jody Zellen's personal library.

instructions:
single tap to create a new poem
double tap for about screen

poem options:
text in white on black

text in multiple colors and fonts

concept and design:
jody zellen

development:
oleksandr grygorash

source text:
DAP
Art Catalogues

about:
This project began as an Artists Respond commission by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and was initially developed as a web based project. To read an interview about the project please visit the LACMA Blog.

Click here to view the spine sonnet website.

thanks:
Thanks to Amy Heibel for inviting me to create an Artists Respond project and for introducing me to Oleksandr Grygorash who developed this iPhone App. I also want to thank Dagney Corcoran at Art Catalogues and Cory Reynolds, Sharon Gallagher and Skuta Helgason at DAP for providing me with their inventory lists.