Show:
Computer Poet
How do we interact with other forms of intelligence?
Interactive poetry installation that explores what it means to create this world together with non-humans.
What makes a human?
In the anthropocene we live in, the human is the measure of all things. Being human is often defined as being able to think logical: to be intelligent. What does it mean to live and create in this world together with artificial intelligence then?
As Haraway described in her Promise of Monsters, press enter (or in this project, pressing play) “is (…) an inescapable possibility for changing maps of the world, for building new collectives out of what is not quite a plethora of human and unhuman actors.”
In the anthropocene we live in, the human is the measure of all things. Being human is often defined as being able to think logical: to be intelligent. What does it mean to live and create in this world together with artificial intelligence then?
As Haraway described in her Promise of Monsters, press enter (or in this project, pressing play) “is (…) an inescapable possibility for changing maps of the world, for building new collectives out of what is not quite a plethora of human and unhuman actors.”
During the exhibition, visitors could add words to the piece of processing code, and see the poems change when the code is played. Each poem is an unique combination of all the words, and exists only once. If they’ve created a poem that they like, they can choose to print it and transfer the digital world to the physical world. Through this, the code is a collection of everyones feelings, thoughts, and words, and it asks questions through existing. Because what does it mean that a computer can generate poems? What does it mean to create together? Is it my art, my poem, or that of the computer, or is it from both of us?
The visuals are inspired by black-out poetry. Creating new texts, with new meanings, from already existing texts, as a way of reshaping the world and re-evaluating the status quo.
