In the summer of 1961, so the story goes, the writer William S. Burroughs visited the poet Allen Ginsberg in Tangier. The two were close friends and fellow Beatniks, but Burroughs hadn’t yet read “Kaddish,” Gisnberg’s recent poem about the death of his mother.

So Burroughs asked for a copy and a pair of scissors. He planned to cut up the pages and words into fragments, and reassemble them in a randomized order. “Then,” Burroughs supposedly said, “we’ll really get the meaning out of it.” 

“Allen was genuinely hurt by that. He was horrified by it,” Peter Hale, executor of the Allen Ginsberg Estate, told Decrypt. But five years later, Ginsberg was a converted man, regularly employing experimental cut-up techniques on his own poetry. “He definitely came around to appreciating the whole thing,” Hale said. 

Would Ginsberg have been horrified or appreciative, then, had he been alive to witness “Muses & Self: Photographs by Allen Ginsberg,” a new exhibition currently on display at the Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles?

The show, which highlights Ginsberg’s prolific second career as a photographer, also employs a fine-tuned artificially intelligent language model to write poems generated from (inspired by?) Ginsberg’s photos. The outputs aren’t just re-assemblings of vintage Ginsberg; they’re entirely new, robot-crafted works written in the artist’s distinctive voice.

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