poetry

A reactive poetry machine

Fabian Frei (CH)

*A reactive poetry machine* is an experiment that examines the outcomes of trying to teach a machine poetry. Will it forever produce poetry in different variations of the same kind or will it succeed in crossing the threshold and creating something new? The interactive installation invites visitors to the Ars Electronica Festival to spend a moment away from the hustle and bustle of the festival to reflect on AI, poetry and their relationship.

The Poetic Design: From Mimesis to Catharsis.

Homero Ruiz (MX/DE)

The Poetic Design: From Mimesis to Catharsis explores the visual poetry and basis of Greek aesthetic philosophy through its four main elements: Mimesis, Poiesis, Apate (Esthetic Illusion), and Catharsis.

Estuary Poem for Wyndham Lewis

Robert Montgomery (UK)

A memorial fire-poem to Wyndham Lewis at the point in which the River Thames, having left London, meets the North Sea. This work is both a ceremonial elegy to Lewis (an important figure in British Modernism and the editor of the concrete poetry journal BLAST) and an updating of his phrase “Enemies of the Stars” for the age of ecological crisis. It seems that we have now all become the enemies of the icebergs and the stars...