Betty Danon (1927, Istanbul – 2002, Milan) created the Computer poems series in the early 1990s, initiallyusing her daughter’s Macintosh cube computer. Employing an early home-computing graphics program called SuperPaint, Danon created images to illustrate short, humorous verses of poetry. For example, one that uses the computer to reproduce a work by French painter Georges Braque is accompanied by the question: ‘Would Braque have liked the computer?’ Another depicting a ‘shadow’ tumbling out of a frame appears with the phrase ‘shadow: oh how a shad had a show’. Danon also used the keyboard characters for figurative purposes. In her works, two lateral and adjacent brackets are often used to make a bird motif, an allusion to the subject of migration which is a recurrent subject in her work.