With our project, Exoplanetary Poetry, we will be in residency at the wonderful playground that is Cultivamos Cultura in São Luis in the south of Portugal.
Daniela Brill Estrada, Julie-Michèle Morin, and myself will be experimenting with chemistry as a poetic language and trying to find answers to the questions: How do we translate a poetic text into a poetic chemical reaction? What is the border between a scientific text and a poetic one? How would an extraterrestrial intelligence from the exoplanet GJ504 B perceive poetry? And chemical elements?
Next to physical experimentation we will work on our AI, that we have named Jupi. We will do writing sessions to train our AI what human poetry is, and then find strategies to extrapolate that poetry into the realm of the unknown universe. What will it take to create an ethically trained AI? Where all the source material is consented by the authors, and where we, as artists, are the sole data-moderators?
I’m extremely pleased to be exploring these questions in the inspiring environment of Cultivamos Cultura, with a centuries old barn with a modern lab!