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Here is a small paragraph from Wikipedia to understand Hyperrealism.
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We live in a highly postmodern era. An era in which technology has overpowered human beings. Sometimes it is very difficult to discern what is real and what is artificial or virtual. Because in this postmodern times, the concept of original is now near to end. Everything we see nowadays is a copy of something. And when this copy takes place, the originality suffers. Whenever the question of originality occurs Jean Baudrillard comes to mind. Baudrillard was a French sociologist who formulated the concept of hyperrealism and simulacra or simulation.
Hyperrealism has its roots in the philosophy of Jean Baudrillard, "the simulation of something which never really existed."[14] As such, Hyperrealists create a false reality, a convincing illusion based on a simulation of reality, the digital photograph. Hyperreal paintings and sculptures are an outgrowth of extremely high-resolution images produced by digital cameras and displayed on computers. As Photorealism emulated analog photography, Hyperrealism uses digital imagery and expands on it to create a new sense of reality.[6][15] Hyperrealistic paintings and sculptures confront the viewer with the illusion of manipulated high-resolution images, though more meticulous.[16]
The concept of hyperral applies to various branches of technology such as artificial intelligence, language learning and speech generation in robots. Virtual Reality (VR) also represents hyperreality. The video game industry has adapted VR technology very well. Second Life, an online game, is also a large platform in which humans can live the entire artificial life other than the real one. . .
The question is, what sense does this all make in the field of literature? It does. By raising one more question it will make sense. What if machines write poems?
Yes, there are many algorithms available online which can make you a poet overnight! One can put some words from the dropdown menu and the algorithm will make you a poem within few seconds! Here a poem, Dreamy and Clever Thought which is generated by an online algorithm, has given me the credit as if I had written it firstly!
The question is, what sense does this all make in the field of literature? It does. By raising one more question it will make sense. What if machines write poems?
Yes, there are many algorithms available online which can make you a poet overnight! One can put some words from the dropdown menu and the algorithm will make you a poem within few seconds! Here a poem, Dreamy and Clever Thought which is generated by an online algorithm, has given me the credit as if I had written it firstly!
Here is an interesting blog regarding this point. Click on the link below.
Here is the end result of the words I input to form a machine generated poem.
The Dreamy And Clever Thought
A Poem by Rohit Vyas
Its owner is quite happy though.
Full of joy like a vivid rainbow.
I watch him laugh. I cry hello,
And laughs until her belly aches.
The only other sound's the break,
Of distant waves and birds awake.
But he has promises to keep,
After cake and lots of sleep.
Sweet dreams come to him cheap.
With thoughts of kittens in his head,
He eats his jam with lots of bread.
Ready for the day ahead.
Whose thought is that? I think I know,
He gives his thought a shake,
The thought is dreamy, clever and deep.
He rises from his gentle bed.
With thanks to the poet, Robert Frost, for the underlying structure.
Here is the original poem from which the algorithm took the structure.
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost - Click Here, Original Poem
As a student of language and literature, we can't deny the existence of technology and if technology is meant to help humans, then we, on the first hand should accept technology in arts and humanities. Technology is helpful in learning language and literature.
References:
1. Wikipedia - Jean Baudrillard, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard
2. Wikipedia - Hyperrealism (Visual Arts) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperrealism_(visual_arts)
3. Wikipedia - Simulacra and Simulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
4. Poem Generator - https://www.poem-generator.org.uk/
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