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Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence
Very excited to be presenting our project Exoplanetary Poetry at TTT 2025 (TABOO – TRANSGRESSION – TRANSCENDENCE) together with Julie-Michèle Morin and Daniela Brill Estrada. We will be talking about exploring chemistry as a tool for communication with aliens. We aim to co-author a collection of poems with a speculative extraterrestrial being in the form…
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Knyahinya
Screenwriting – I’m writing the screenplay for the CGI-documentary with working title “Knyahinya” of Ukrainian artist Letta Shtohryn and Austrian artist and researcher Daniela Brill Estrada. In 1866, Europe’s largest meteorite fell in the Ukrainian Carpathians — then part of the Austrian Empire. Knyahinya’s well-witnessed fall inspired paintings, fiction, as well as scientific and speculative…
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SETI AiR: Exoplanetary Poetry
Experimental Poetry – Super excited to work with my fantastic team mates Julie-Michèle Morin and Daniela Brill Estrada to combine our skills in art, science, and creative writing for the Cosmic Consciousness residency of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute! Our project titled “Exoplanetary Poetry” proposes chemistry as a possible universal language (in the…
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Shared Futures
Visual & Digital Arts – Shared Futures is a multimedia poetry experience that addresses the colonial past between Ghana and The Netherlands. It consists of a mixed media art installation and an AR experience in which poetry, co-created with the local community in Elmina (Ghana), is layered on the walls of Elmina Castle, the oldest…
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WHAT_IS_LOST
My poem WHAT_IS_LOST was published by Volume Poetry! “What is Lost” is an executable code poem: a poem written in code, readable for non programmers, but executable on the command line of any Linux or Mac OSX computer. The poem reflects on how human minds have been transformed into sources of data collection and have…
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Rabbit Academy
Screenwriting – Since 2023 I’m writing episodes for the animation series “Rabbit Academy”. This new children’s series is produced by Akkord Film for KiKa (the children’s television portal of ARD and ZDF.) SWR, NDR, and HR. I’m excited, since it will be my first production in Germany. Inspirationals by Heiko Hentschel / Character Design by…
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Shared Futures
The past two months Paul Akrofie and I have been working together on our project Shared Futures in which we seek to decolonize spaces in both Ghana and The Netherlands through community-led digital interventions in order to empower local communities in Elmina and Amsterdam. Last week we organized the Shared Futures Lab workshop in Elmina…
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Hybrid Poetry
Creative Writing – Since two years, I’ve been writing and publishing hybrid poems in various shapes and forms in which I explore the parallels between writing code and writing poetry, in form and content as well as in the thought process that precedes the writing. Read my first code poem “Infinite Loop” published in 2022…
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Interview for Ars Electronica
During the Ars Electronica Festival I had the chance to interview Taiwanese artist Chiaochi Chou about her work “Synplant” that she presented in the Becoming Different exhibition, a part of the Gardens Exhibition, curated by the Yasuaki Kakehi Lab and The University of Tokyo (JP). Photo: vog.photo Read the interview here
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Founding Lab part 2
Very excited to be a part of the Founding Lab Fall Term of the Institute of Digital Sciences Austria (IDSA) and Ars Electronica. Together with 24 peers, 21 fellows, facilitators, members of the Ars Electronica Future Lab, and other inspiring people I will be exploring and creating new work on the social, political, and technical…
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Augmented Poetry: “The Machine Who”
I’ve created the first prototype of an augmented poem: poetry with a layer of augmented reality(AR) that alters the meaning of the text. A poem, projected on a wall, or printed in a book, or displayed on a monitor, can be viewed through a smartphone where blanks left in the original text are filled in,…
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infinite_loop
My code poem infinite_loop was published by Volume Poetry Read it here, and check out the latest edition of Volume, volume 3 issue 1!
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Founding Lab
I’m proud to be a part of the summer school of the FOUNDING LAB this year in Linz, Austria: “a collaborative effort between the Institute of Digital Sciences Austria (IDSA) and Ars Electronica. Its aim is to identify, develop, and present new areas, approaches, and formats that address the challenges of digital transformation. “ As a…
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Robots Reloaded
Together with visual artist and designer Omer Polak, I worked on the Robots Feast, a show of 50 robots, dancing a choreography, interacting, and serving food to a hungry audience at the Martini Festival. The work was a continuation of Omer’s early Dancing Dishes installation presented at the LaZuz design exhibition in 2019 and again…
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My interview with Chad Davidson on AGNI’s blog
For literary magazine AGNI, located in Boston, I interviewed author and poet Chad Davidson about his contribution for AGNI magazine 86, “Mutatis Mutandis” (read it here)