It looks like you're writing a letter & Zeroes and Ones

Ross Sutherland and Tim Clare give a lively and stimulating lecture on the relationship between the imagination, language and mathematics. In part one, they provide a history of language games based on their encounters with the experimental French writing movement OULIPO (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle). In part two, Sutherland tells the story of his attempts to create computer-generated poetry and how he eventually discovers that his artificial co-author is plotting to destroy him. Both Ross Sutherland and Tim Clare regularly read their work on BBC Radio. Ross Sutherland was included in The Times’s list of Top 10 Literary Stars of 2008.

The lecture will be followed by a performance of Tony Walsh’s poem, Zeroes and Ones, which cleverly compreses 14 billion years of science and philosophy into one byte-sized poem.