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An AI-powered poem published as a collection of 30 1/1 media-rich poems in Quantum’s curated art series — the first instance of poetry on the Quantum platform.
Each textblock, representing a single stanza, exists as a standalone visual poem that is inextricably connected to every other piece. The text of the poem was written in collaboration with my AI alter ego, Technelegy -- a custom text generator fine-tuned on my own writing, research and reference materials. Visuals by me; original music and sound design by renowned music producer Kris Bones.
By translating the printed text into media-rich visual poems, the collection looks to the future of generative and metaversal literature while evolving the ancient, immersive, experiential oral tradition of poetry and the 16th century invention of moveable type.
The title FRAGMENTS refers to the surviving fragments of the Ancient Greek poet Sappho’s literary work.
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Title / first stanza
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Illustration: DALL-E 2 text-to-image translation of “The birth of an idea”
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Source text for “We all had this psychic dream about our own programming” (recently exhibited in Tokyo and Superchief LA)
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Poetic devices: allegory, rhyme, rhetorical questioning
02/30:
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Poetic devices: imagery, near rhyme, repetition, metaphor
03/30:
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DALL-E 2 interpretation of the word “consciousness”
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Poetic devices: personification
04/30:
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Nod to Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
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Poetic devices: allusion, litany
05/30:
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Nod to Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
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Disclaimer: “These views are the author’s own”
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Poetic devices: allusion, visual repetition, irony
06/30:
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Ellipses
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Source text for “Your imagination is not what you told it to be” (Sasha’s genesis NFT)
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Poetic devices: imagery, alliteration, assonance
07/30:
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Poetic devices: metaphor, enjambment, repetition, apostrophe, consonance
08/30:
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DALL-E 2 text-to-image translations
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Poetic devices: imagery, consonance, rhyme, visual couplets
09/30:
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Poetic devices: rhetorical questioning, repetition, wordplay
10/30:
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DALL-E 2 close reading
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Poetic devices: repetition, exclamation
11/30:
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Poetic devices: apostrophe, repetition, enjambment
12/30:
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Kaleidoscopic, semi-asemic text (only instance in the collection)
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Poetic devices: imagery, allegory, near rhyme, repetition; irony
13/30:
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Poetic devices: imagery, repetition, visual metaphor
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DALL-E 2 text-to-image translation of “My handwriting has become the stuff of nightmares”
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Poetic devices: imagery, allegory, rhetorical questioning
15/30:
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Poetic devices: repetition, rhyme, rhetorical questioning
16/30:
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Nod to Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”
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Poetic devices: allusion, imagery, alliteration, consonance, repetition
17/30:
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Poetic devices: apostrophe, personification, exclamation
18/30:
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Poetic devices: brackets, imagery, repetition
19/30:
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Poetic devices: ars poetica, rhyme, consonance
20/30:
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Poetic devices: personification, enjambment, visual couplets, consonance, assonance, rhetorical questioning
21/30:
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Poetic devices: alliteration, repetition, near rhyme, imagery
22/30:
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Poetic devices: pun, irony, visual repetition
23/30:
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Poetic devices: aphorism, rhetorical questioning, litany, visual repetition
24/30:
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Poetic devices: invocation, litany, metaphor
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DALL-E 2 text-to-image translation of “Robots feed on spare electricity”
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Poetic devices: brackets, interjection, direct address
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Poetic devices: rhetorical questioning, litany, alliteration
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Poetic devices: rhetorical questioning, enjambment, near rhyme
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DALL-E 2 illustration
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Poetic devices: aphorism, litany, rhyme, near rhyme, enjambment, direct address
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DALL-E 2 illustration
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Poetic devices: allusion, alliteration, repetition, litany, pun
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Closing stanza
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DALL-E 2 text-to-image translation of “A click towards God”
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Poetic devices: metaphor, repetition
