Chemical Bodies of Work is a chemical poetry and poetic chemistry experiment in which Julie-Michèle Morin, Daniela Brill Estrada, and I trie to place ourselves in the position of an extraterrestrial using our AI JUPI and imagined the chemistry of the universe from that perspective.
A coming-of-age space story experienced by a hydrogen atom, a potassium-aluminium sulfate crystal, and a sodium cloud, as narrated by Jupi, the humble Tiny Language Model with a heart of, well, sodium, most likely. An exploration of first encounters, worlds clashing and words strung together to describe a blue copper sky.
These mighty crystals fused with our clumsy words are an attempt to describe the indescribable, to place ourselves in scenes that can never be seen, and transcend earthly metaphors in search of a new exoplanetary grammar.
A project of Julie-Michèle Morin, Daniela Brill Estrada, and Bart Kuipers.
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Chemical Bodies of Workshop
It was a lot of fun to co-author poems with our Tiny Language Model JUPI and to play with non-Newtonian fluid! The workshop was part of the group exhibition Extraterrestrial Posthumanism of Ectopia Lab and Cultivamos Cultura!
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Chemical Bodies of Work
From 12-12-2025 to 12-03-2026 our work Exoplanetary Bodies of Work will be shown at the group exhibition Extraterrestrial Posthumanism of Ectopia Lab and Cultivamos Cultura! We describe the piece as: A coming-of-age space story experienced by a hydrogen atom, a potassium-aluminium sulfate crystal, and a sodium cloud, as narrated by Jupi, the humble TLM with…