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Exoplanetary Poetry
As part of our Cosmic Consciousness artist-residence at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, we—three artist-researchers, Julie-Michèle Morin, Daniela Brill Estrada, and Bart Kuipers—are conducting an experiment in artistic co-creation with a speculative extraterrestrial being. We are currently training an AI to impersonate an alien poet using data on the chemical composition of promising…
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Shared Futures
Shared Futures is a community-led multimedia poetry experience that addresses the colonial past between Ghana and The Netherlands. It consists of a mixed media art installation and uses AI to investigate the possibilities of an improved future for the town of Elmina (Ghana). It also incorporates an AR experience in which poetry, co-created with the…
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AR Poetry
An AR poem is a work of poetry with a layer of augmented reality that alters the meaning of the text. A poem, projected on a wall, or printed in a book, or displayed on a screen, can be viewed through a device, and blanks left in the original text are filled in, thus altering…
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Chemical Bodies of Work
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…
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Bi++ : A Non-Binary Programming Language
Bi++ is a conceptual experiment in the form of an esoteric programming language that explores the consequences of a world structured through binaries for people with bi+ orientations, understood here as attraction to more than one gender. As Meg-John Barker and Alex Iantaffi write in Life Isn’t Binary, “Despite being one of the largest groups…
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The Machine Who
The Machine Who is a series of executable code poems. An executable code poem is a in its essence a program, written in the programming language PHP, but of which the source code can be read by non-programmers as a poem. However, the code can still be executed, using a PHP interpreter (available on almost…
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Hromovyi Kamin’
Together with artist Letta Shtohryn and artist-researcher Daniela Brill Estrada, I’m working on the CGI-documentary with working title Hromovyi Kamin’ (Ukrainian for “Thunderstone”). In 1866, Europe’s largest meteorite fell in the village of Knyahinya, in the Ukrainian Carpathians — then part of the Austrian Empire. Knyahinya’s well-witnessed fall inspired paintings, fiction, as well as scientific…
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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…