I Passed By Where You Lived
Inspired by Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, it is a series of generative postcards from a bot describing non-existent cities in first person point of view.
Made in 2019
Tools:Python
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I Passed By Where You Lived is a series of generative postcard sent from speculative cities. The content is generated by Markov chain in Python, and is comprised of a mesh up of texts from The Invisible City by Italo Calvino and articles about modern urban planning on New York Times.
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