Jérémie Wenger

Literature & programming


Jérémie Wenger is a Swiss writer and programmer based in London. Impasses around expression led to constrained/generative strategies as positive impediments to writing, and, later, neural textuality, feeding a reflection on AI and its consequences for literature and the self.

Forthcoming #

Excerpts from Lacanage, forthcoming in Still Point*, 2025.

Excerpts from Artificial It, forthcoming in gorse* 12 (ed: Christodoulos Makris*), 2025.

rebut|robot, forthcoming in Projet éditorial Arkhaï*, 2025. Dataset filtering and rewriting pipeline around the theme of waste, using werewords. Shell/Python

2025 #

Cubes, published in The New River Issue XLIX 2025* (ed: Riley O’Mearns*), 2025.

Chains, published in TILT 0005* (eds: Henry Goldkamp*, Nam Hoang Tran*), 2025.

Panelist for Antenna: Where Signals Meet, MFA Computational Arts Work-in-Progress 2 Show, 2025, Goldsmiths College, London. With Rebecca Aston*, Patrick Hartono*, Katie Tindle* and Rachel Falconer*.

Machines Poétiques: Introducing textual systems through experimental French poetry, 2025, Goldsmiths College, London. One-day computational poetry workshop with Iris Colomb*. p5.js/JavaScript

p5.Ollama: Ollama with p5.js, 2025. Ollama/p5.js/JavaScript

p5.Claude: Anthropic’s Claude with p5.js, 2025. Claude/p5.js/JavaScript

Curation and workshops for the TEA, TECH + EXCHANGE residency, Tate, with Nathan Bayliss* and Robin Leverton*, under the leadership of Rachel Falconer*.

Excerpts from Chains, published in minor literature[s]* (ed: Yanina Spizzirri*), 2025.

The Corridor, 2024-5. Fiction [unfinished]

2024 #

Excerpts from Chains, published in Vernacular*, 2024.

Excerpts from Lacanage, published in Strings 2* (eds: Alex Aspden* & Alex Keramidas*), 2024.

Nik Papageorgiou, Large Language Models feel the direction of time (French version in Dimensions 15, le journal de l’éducation, la recherche et l’innovation de l’EPFL, p. 10), EPFL, 2024.

“to begin with…”, from Artificial It, published in GRASS 4 @englishgrass* (ed.: Tommy Sissons*), 2024.

Cubes, constrained writing on cubic surfaces, inspired by Ilse Garner’s “Puzzle-Alphabet” (2010), presented at Manifold, an Electric Gold exhibition, 2024. p5.js/JavaScript/Python

Départs presented at the symposium: 3ai.24: Art in the Age of AI*, Corfu, Greece, 2024.

Wellung III a, ToCall No. 20 (contributors, shop) (ed: petra schulze-wollgast (psw)*), 2024. A visual/generative tribute to Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt* (1932-2024). p5.js/JavaScript

Gonograph, 2024. Polygonal constrained writing & dedicated web text editor. JavaScript [unfinished]

Machines Poétiques: Introducing textual systems through experimental French poetry, 2024, Goldsmiths College, London. One-day computational poetry workshop with Iris Colomb*. p5.js/JavaScript

With Vassilis Papadopoulos*, Clément Hongler*. “Arrows of Time for Large Language Models”, 2024. A study on the probabilistic modeling performed by Autoregressive Large Language Models through the angle of time directionality, ICML 2024 Oral.

Three Squares published by Pamenar Online Magazine* (ed: Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi*), 2024.

2023 #

Subwords, 2023-4. Constrained writing based on subsequence decompositions of long words into shorter ones. Shell/Python & dedicated PyCairo renderer

Pieces from Squares and Chains presented at A-Side / B-Side, St James Hatcham, Goldsmiths College, 2023. Curation: Eden Chahal* and Marisa Di Monda*

2022 #

Squares, 2022-3. Constrained writing based on algorithmically generated word squares. Shell/Python & dedicated PyCairo renderer

Chains, 2022-3. Garlands of (mostly) cliché phrases & dedicated web reading interface. p5.js/JavaScript

The Enchanted World of Omninas, 2022-3. Framework for working with generalised sestinas. Python & dedicated PyCairo renderer
  “sestin”, sestina in homage to Arnaut Daniel
  “albertine”, Proustian starter ‘tourniquenina’ (septina)
  “Doom and pain came…”, rotating diagonal octina

p5.GPT: OpenAI’s ChatGPT with p5.js, 2023. ChatGPT/p5.js/JavaScript

Machines Poétiques: Introducing textual systems through experimental French poetry, 2023, Goldsmiths College, London. One-day computational poetry workshop with Iris Colomb*. ChatGPT/p5.js/JavaScript

Bilingual Lab, 2022-23. Monthly online poetry course with Iris Colomb*, Beyond Form Creative Writing*

Machines Poétiques: Transreading Twentieth-Century French Poetry, 2022-23. Monthly online poetry course with Iris Colomb*, The Poetry School*

DIY Freud, 2022. Automated therapist on the cheap, essay

Art Projects, 2022. “Comrade, what is your art project? – Hito Steyerl”. Prose [unfinished]

Les crimes hybrides? L’écrit m’y bride! (“Hybrid crimes? Writing restrains me to them.”), 2022, The Quine Association, Lausanne. Talk

“le regret” (“the regret”), 2022. Oulipian refutation of a well-known sonnet

pas peu lunaire (“not a little lunar”), 2022. Homophonic variations on Apollinaire’s “Chantre”

Machines Poétiques: Introducing textual systems through experimental French poetry, 2022, Goldsmiths College, London. One-day computational poetry workshop with Iris Colomb*. p5.js/JavaScript

minGPT fork, 2022. Byte-level, alphabet-agnostic tokenization & TPU/XLA integration & first steps towards in-training gradual generation, PyTorch/Python

bridges, 2022. A GPT-2 wrapper class & gephyrurge (bridge-maker) using forward and backward text generation, with Pr. Clément Hongler*. GPT-2/Tensorflow/Python

2021 #

Départs, 2021. Prototype pour une pièce radiophonique à deux voix, avec des textes issus de réécritures de matériaux générés par des modèles de langue, utilisant l’architecture Transformer, (notamment, entre autres, le GPT-3 d’OpenAI). GPT-2/GPT-3/p5.js/JavaScript

jsml, 2021. Combinatorial homage to Jackson Mac Low. Python [unfinished]

Alors seulement le rêve, 2021. Textes neuraux utilisant des matériaux générés par des modèles de langue affinés pour le français. GPT-2

Vegans, 2021. Neural fiction: variations on one single prompt. GPT-2/GPT-J-6B

Lacanage, 2021. Neural texts using materials from a language model finetuned on Jacques Lacan and my own texts, with Alan Cunningham*, supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland*. GPT-2

Kirjasto/Library, 2021. Exhibition of Artificial It and Artificial It (“to begin with…”) in Helsinki, Finland, (curation: Jonni Korhonen*).

2020 #

Inanimaux (“Inanimals”), 2020. Neural texts generated using materials generated by language models finetuned for French. Shell/GPT-2

CHATBOT, 2020-1. Act and dialogue with a conversational agent-actor. A research project of the Manufacture School of Drama* in Lausanne, Switzerland, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation*, under the direction of Nicolas Zlatoff*. Shell/BeautifulSoup/GPT-2/Python

exist digressively, 2020. Exhibited by Text Type Light in Stockholm (Sweden)

Google TTS reads foreign texts with an unreasonably accurate accent, 2020. Casual mischief with Google’s Text-To-Speech system. Python

2019 #

Werewords, formerly The Siamesor, 2019. The breeding of werewords, aka Siamese words. Python & dedicated Processing renderer

Wordhoard, 2019. Greedily hoarding words & wordhoards…

A Scroll, 2019. …written on a scroll found on the street…. Prose

Ça artificiel, exhibited at the Cabanon*, 2019, Lausanne, Switzerland, as part of the Printemps de la Poésie* (“The Spring of Poetry”)
  Ça artificiel (« pour commencer… »)
  Ça artificiel (morceaux I-VIII)
  L’écriture et son double (essai) 
  Ça artificiel (logismes)
  Pastiches & mélanges

Pastiches & mélanges, 2019. Automatic text generation thanks to deep learning. ml5.js/Python

Writing and its Double (essay), 2019. Writing to the test of the machine: Peritexts presented during the exhibition Ça artificiel in Lausanne

Artificial It (“to begin with…”), 2019. Neural texts using materials from ‘doppelgänger’ networks, trained on my own texts. LSTMs/Python

Artificial It (lumps I-VIII), 2019. Neural texts using materials from ‘doppelgänger’ networks, trained on my own texts. LSTMs/Python

Death of a Research Engineer, 2019. A jest after Chekhov. Prose

Macau, 2019. Prose

2018 #

Artificial It (logisms), 2018. Neural word generation using character-level language models. LSTMs/Python

Recursus, 2018, Goldsmiths Computational Arts MA final year show. Triptych of computational literature composed of WordSquares, Subwords and AIT

AIT (Artificial It), 2018. Steps toward Neural Text Generation, using materials from ‘doppelgänger’ networks, trained on my own texts. LSTMs/Python [forthcoming publication in gorse*]

Squares (formerly Wordsquares), 2018. Recursive foray into squares of letters as a poetic form. Python & dedicated Processing renderer

Subwords, 2018. Tools to work with subsequences of strings. Python & dedicated Processing renderer

Laces, 2018. Circular poetic word paths using the Levenshtein distance. Python & dedicated Processing renderer

What do we know about Tessa K.?, 2018. Prose

Euclideas, 2018. Several small rhythmic pieces in the form of Max patches, functioning as ‘perpetua mobilia’ that can be turned on to produce a variable, but ultimately cyclical and indefinite stream of beats. Max/MSP

2017 #

Computational Thoughts, 2017-8. An archive of posts written in the context of the Master’s in Computational Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London, academic year 2017-2018

Monodrian, 2017. A series of Processing sketches in homage to Mondrian. Processing

Ideas, 2017. A list of ideas and suggestions presented as part of my submission for the Master’s in Computational Arts at Goldsmiths College, London

Tomorrow Is the Past of Some Distant future, 2017-8. Texts for a music piece by Davor Branimir Vincze*

Six Poems, 2017.

Essay, 2017. Prose

Neovalis, 2017. Texts with and around Novalis’ Hymns to the Night, Novalis Festival*, Croatia

Sandra K. wakes up…, 2017. Fiction

Situs Vetus, 2017. Tumblr and Twitter

Inflected Points, 2017. Texts for a music piece by Davor Branimir Vincze*

2016 #

An Essay on London, 2016-17. Prose

Solids, 2016. Plato meets perversion, constrained texts based on Platonic solids, with composer Remmy Canedo [unfinished]

Four Poems, 2016.

A short electroacoustic essay of autobiographical nature regarding music and unrelated matters, 2016, London. Texts for a music piece by Davor Branimir Vincze*, Kammer Klang*/Cafe Oto*

Sleep Wars, 2016. Essay

A Scholar, 2016. Fiction

2015 #

It VI, 2015-2017.
  more
  narrative
  statuses
  words

It V, 2015.
  diary
  gifs
  iteas
  magma
  metamagma
  paramagma
  quotes
  words

Explosure / Preexplosure, 2015, Frankfurt. Constrained, letter-based textual complex produced at the invitation of Jagoda Szmytka* for Play night*. Installation, GIFs & Tumblr blogs

EUHOQ, 2015. Constrained Duchampian texts for a composition by Davor Branimir Vincze*

Londoners, 2015. Fiction

« Les Ailleurs de Pierre Jodlowski. Festival les Amplitudes 2015 », 2015. disssonance 131.

2014 #

It IV, 2014-5.
  criticism & study
  lifestyle
  magma
  method & idea
  more unvague
  narrate
  quotes
  scenarios
  some say
  voices
  words
  words-under

2013 #

It III, 2013-14.
  diary
  itted (plus quotes)
  something else (almost unvague)
  uncategorized
  word-, namefuck
  words (logorhythm (logosis))

Map Manifesto, 2013. A poetic reading of underground maps. WordPress site

2012 #

It II, 2012-3.
  readymades
  real void
  ruins
  storying
  text machine
  translations and readings
  voice machine

ALP texts, 2012. Four chords or chord structures on a theme by ALP

“Deleuzian Tetradecasyllabic (hence Square) Sonnet, for C.P.”, 2012.

“switzerland”, 2012. Poem

Eight Texts Opus 1, 2012. Poetry
  The Ruin
  Geneva Lake
  Reading
  Tryptich on idleness
  Why Ezra Vanity
  Houellebecq
  An answer to Campos
  And now that my venom

It I, 2012-3. [revisions 2014-15]
  wall system

« Lieux de la quête. Composer, penser, depuis Royaumont en 2011 », 2012. dissonance* 118.

« Désirs du commentaire dans le Séminaire VIII, Le transfert, de Jacques Lacan. Essai de théorisation », 2012. In François Félix and Philippe Grosos (dir.), Érotisme biblique, érotisme païen : lecture du Cantique des Cantiques et du Banquet de Platon, Lausanne, L’Âge d’homme.

« Miroirs – de l’écoute. Correspondance autour du canon musical aujourd’hui », 2012. In collaboration with Dragos Tara, dissonance* 119.

« Lieux de la quête. Composer, penser, depuis Royaumont », 2012. dissonance* 118.

2011 (and prior) #

With Dragos Tara*. « Miroirs – électro-acoustiques. Petit essai épistolaire romand sur des questions de composition contemporaine », 2011. dissonance* 115.

With Noël Christe. « La Fin Justifie-t-elle les Moyens ? A Derridean Halt in Harris’ Long Walk », Language Sciences, Volume 33/4, 2011, Bade, David & pablé, Adrian (eds), « Linguistics Out of Bounds : Explorations in Integrational Linguistics in Honour of Roy Harris on his 80th Birthday ».

With Noël Christe. « Of Fig and Foes : A Short Reflection on Roy Harris Intellectual’s Stance », Language Sciences, Volume 33/4, 2011, Bade, David & Pablé, Adrian (eds) « Linguistics out of bounds : Explorations in Integrational Linguistics in Honour of Roy Harris on his 80th birthday ».

« Tentations de la clarté. Auprès de Reflecting Black de William Blank ». dissonance* 110, 2010.

“Bookself”, 2010. Poem

Opus, 2009-16. Former abode of It. WordPress site

“All / Saw / Damaskèd You”, 2009. Poem, Muse 2, Université de Lausanne

Old Old Words, 2007-11. Old old words of mine. WordPress site

Sept textes pour rien, 2004
  I. “Ainsi le cri renouvelé”
  II. “Aux douces rondeurs chevalines”
  III. “Retournons à tant d’inutiles gargarismes”
  IV. “Pornographie”
  V. “Fatigues”
  VI. “La lune tapisse mes yeux”
  VII. “La nuit me fait peur le passage”

Opus 1, 2003-04. [unfinished]
  Écriture
  Expérience
  Relations

Dérive, 2002. Fiction

Traces, 2000. Fiction