Slide 5 · arrangement is the medium

Cut-up generator.

Paste any text. Cut it. Shuffle the pieces. The Dadaists pulled words out of a hat. Burroughs dropped his typed pages on the floor and rearranged them. Arrangement and selection is the medium.

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Cut-up

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Remove pieces. Move the ones you keep. Removed fragments stay here to restore. Source and cut-size changes take effect on your next Cut + shuffle.

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    Creative AI lineage

    Why this cut-up tool belongs in Punk Rock AI.

    This generator is the hands-on version of Kris Krüg’s Punk Rock AI argument: keep your critique, build your capability, and treat the machine as an instrument. If you came here searching for a cut up generator or punk AI, start with the talk, then follow the creative AI network outward.

    Watch the Punk Rock AI talk · Trace the Dada / zine / selector lineage · Kris Krüg · BC + AI Ecosystem · FutureProof Festival

    About the cut-up generator

    What is a cut-up generator?

    A cut-up generator rearranges source text into new fragments so writers, artists, and AI experimenters can see unexpected language patterns. This one is built for the Punk Rock AI field course and exports zine-style posters.

    How does the Punk Rock AI cut-up tool connect to creative AI?

    It treats arrangement and selection as the medium: humans choose source material, cut size, punctuation, layout, and final edits while using the machine as a creative instrument rather than an autopilot.