My Augmented Reality poem (DYS) TO(PI) A(N) FUTURE! was published in Re-Mediate Litmag, Issue 3! (Scroll down to find it, or look at it here.)
Dystopian Future is an Augmented Reality poem that exists in two realities at the same time. By opening the web-viewer (in the link) and pointing it at the poem, you’re invited to step into a parallel world in which universal truths are questioned, new epistemologies are proposed, and viewpoints are altered. This poem is the Schrödingers (Möbile) Cat of poetry: looking at it through a device, changes its state, changes its meaning.
The poem is completely human-authored and explores two sides of the same question. The main challenge in compiling the text was to create one flow in which two perspectives on Al are represented – the dystopian doom-scenario and the ‘machine as savory’ version – in an attempt to assess the human condition that allows us to keep these conflicting states in our minds, simultaneously.
The prototype of the AR viewer is based on AR.js and Three.js, both open source javascript libraries licensed under the MIT License for open source software.
Many thanks to P.D. Edgar (@pdedgar30) and Monica Storss (@digitalpoetics) for putting this wonderful issue together!