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James March




#AHAIKU4U aims to answer the timely question: how much is known about yourself and individuals similar to you based on data gathered from online sources? Haikus were generated by asking three questions, the user’s name, birth place and favourite color, and by using data from Kaggle, Socrata, OpenData, FiveThirtyEight, and Google Public Data Sets. Information would be gathered from all databases, then would be run through a syntax checker prior to receiving the final 5-7-5 syllable haiku poem. Each individualized haiku was then typeset using the original typewriter of the resident doctor from the Norris Point Cottage Hospital (now the Julia Ann Walsh Centre).

1.1 GHz Intel Core i7 MacBook, Remington Typewriter Mo. 1212, 4.25” x 5.75” Arches 110lb gsm paper.
© 2024

1. Unidentified Big Cat Sightings in Newfoundland; 2. ØMEGA 54287; 3. Brutus//Apollo; 4. Spatial Practice; 5. Deep State — Conspiracy in Crisis; 6. #AHAIKU4U;  7. An Astronaut’s Guide to Self-Isolation;  8. Doorways; 9. C-O-N-F-A-B-U-L-A-T-I-O-N-S; 10. alas, as the years; 11.  the Deese-Roediger-McDermott Paradigm; 12. Time Regained; 13. decay / / / interference; 14. Virulent; 15. ars memoriæ; 16. Biography.