Weekly Experiment

This experiment was an exploration of the way different technical mediums and effects affect how we perceive and value words, particularly words as art. I wrote something in the iPhone Notes app, applied an Instagram filter, and added an emoji. There’s an interesting thread here that I haven’t quite put my finger on, but I definitely want to experiment more along these lines.

Visual Representation

I find that the most exciting and fulfilling part of communication is the goal of mutual understanding. Every person provides a different puzzle that might require one or the both of us to grow or to learn. It’s idealistic, but I think that with growing technical improvements and globalization, the challenges and opportunities for the use of words as art, particularly as a means for building empathy across communities through forms of expression and dreaming of different futures, grow exponentially.

Artists in the field

  • Sudowrite by Amit Gupta and James Yu
    • An AI-powered, generative creative writing tool
      • Its functions include rewriting passages, autocompleting stories, brainstorming, and offering feedback.
  • theVERSEverse
    • theVERSEverse explores poetry’s place in the metaverse and on the blockchain
    • In their own words, they are creating a “literary gallery where poems are works of art.”
    • A lot of the focus is on poems as NFTs and supporting poets
    • GenText is a series of poems distributed on the blockchain that are the result of the collaboration between a poet, Sudowrite, and a visual artist.
  • Etel Adnan
    • Etel was a Lebanese-American poet and artist that explored the combination of simple paintings and written poetry.