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New critics claim that algorithmic art, in times of industrial production, is the ultimate form of art. “The idea becomes a machine that makes art,” Sol LeWitt said in ’67. Today, Nick Lambert emphasizes that “generative art is the mother of conceptual art”. They are not wrong. Today, in generative art, the machine to which the idea is fed can tirelessly produce “artwork” outputs.

The discourses regarding the end of poetry are also signals, the symptoms of the philosophical/intellectual character of the new poetry to be born. How will the poet, who cannot be non-historical by nature, cope today with being detached from historical context? Is the will of the poet going to surrender to the will of the machine? Buzdokuz wants to make the reader think about these questions. While adding to its theoretical dossiers, it also wants to investigate the art developing in the digital world from a poetic perspective. At the opening of the magazine, the reader encounters Hayriye Ünal’s article entitled “The Philosophy of New Poetry”, which establishes the connection between poetry and generative art.

The Generative Art feature opens with Nick Lambert’s article “A Longer History of Generative Art” (translated by Simge Tekiç Rahmanlar). The Generative Art feature is edited by Ömer Faruk Karaşahan, and also includes articles and ESC products. With the contribution of artists Carolina Melis, Enrico Penzo, Emily Edelman, Dima Ofman, Andrew Badr, Shaderism (Arttu Koskela), Piter Pasma, dist.cs (Bilge İçözü & Ilgın İçözü), ippsketch and Marcelo Soria-Rodríguez, we present four editions from each of the seven generative collections, picked by Ömer Faruk Karaşahan out of hundreds of variations. We have also included artworks from deuspoeticus (Ömer Faruk Karaşahan) with whom we have collaborated on this issue, and Ali Berkay from our team. In addition to Karaşahan’s article on the will of the artist in the new world, Ahmet Melih Karauğuz and Ali Berkay have also made entries. Peter Bauman contributed significantly with his article titled “Demystifying Generative Art” (translated by Demet Işık Kurtoğlu). The cover image of the magazine is edition #95 of Piter Pasma’s Blokkendoos.

In the section Insert, we feature two essays by William Lessard on Digital Poetics, translated by Cemil Caca Arslan.

CTRL+A poets: Ertuğrul Rast + Yüksel Pazarkaya + Mert Özden + Mehmet Dağaşan + Ömer Yalçınova + Osman Erkan + Furkan Katuç + Azimet Avcu + Kenan Osmanoğlu + Can Ülgen + Elif Yıldız + Ozan R. Kartal + İlayda Gül + Burak Demirtaş + İlhan Durusel + Cengizhan Genç + Ayşe Nur Biçer + M. Tuğrul Çolak + Ayşe Şafak Kanca + Zeynep Karaca + Bilgehan Tuğrul + Yahya Çerkez + Harun Yakarer + Emre Söylemez. The CTRL+A section also includes a poem by Tatyana Lukina, translated by Sabri Gürses, and two poems by Erdağ Göknar, translated by B. Hanne Koç.

The section PAUSE, which includes articles that bring a new perspective to the history of poetry, features Bâki Ayhan’s comprehensive criticism towards the poetry spotlight issues of Doğu-Batı magazine. In the criticism-oriented CapsLock, Emrah Yolcu critiques the poets he picked based on his concept of “informatic poetry”, while Kadir Tepe takes a look at Octavio Paz through the eyes of a poet. Leyla Arsal analyses Kâmil Eşfak Berki, whose collected poems were published this year, within the framework of the concept of absurdism, while Aytuğ Kargı evaluates Orhan Kahyaoğlu’s poetry and Furkan Katuç evaluates Levent Sunal’s poetry.

In the section Space, in this issue, Hayriye Ünal writes about the manifestations of animal-being in our poetry, from representation to allegory.

In the section CTRL+S, Ayşe Adem had a detailed interview on Greek poetry and the poetry scene with Stelios Mafredas, one of the important representatives of Modern Greek poetry.

There is a new chapter in Buzdokuz End: Yusuf Koşal’s “Bir+Bir” column makes its first appearance, which will consist of two articles per issue in 2025, one being about theoretical studies of poetry and one about critical practices. Petroleus, Kafagöz and Pulsar caught Mert Özden’s #radar. Hasan Bozdaş reports news from the world of poetry with Periskop. In the End section, Ertuğrul Rast interviews Vasfettin Yağız.

Buzdokuz issue 25 can also be ordered from outside Turkey via WhatsApp at +90 551 725 84 29.

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