Cephalopoet is a tool for editing poems with generative text, investigating the ballooning of scale that comes with AI. When it is so easy to “regenerate,” what happens when the only action you can take is delete? Each edit grows two more heads, like the Lernaean Hydra. You are never able to fully touch all of the words, and the system creates a garden of weeds that will always be more AI than human.
Give it a try at
/cephalopoet/
#creativecoding #computationalpoetry #interface
Reading Ensemble Park in the park 🌳
What if the only thing you could do with words is delete?
My piece in this issue (Cephalopoet) is a visual exploration of what happens when the scale of generation is met with constraint: the only action available is deletion. Each edit grows two more nodes, with words proliferating like the hydra.
Ensemble Park is a journal of human+computer writing. Check it out /
#poetic #creativecoding
prototyping clothes that change when you view them through polarized lenses (sunglasses work too! you just have to tilt your head)
only had enough time to make part of the front of a top, but eventually would love to work on the full dress
made over the weekend at Electric SEA hosted by @thirdplacetechnologies@publicdisplay.art
A 🌟 pillow printer 🌟 as a soft computational object that holds fragments of dreams. Instead of following the person, dream texts are embedded within the pillow.
(cat unfortunately not conductive enough to print, but still full of sleepy dreams)
I’ve always loved this passage from Zhuangzi: “Once I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering here and there, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awoke, and there I was, truly myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.”
Each visitor who lies down continues the dream from the point where the previous one left off, turning an intimate and personal object into a collective experience, imagining an alternative to dreams as private possessions. The pillow invites visitors to pause and rest and briefly inhabit the suspended space between waking and dreaming, opening up the possibility that the world around them may simply be the dream their butterfly selves are having.
Website update!! A website is a home (that is constantly changing) and this one came after 5 years in the previous place. In the move, I couldn’t just get rid of the old projects and writings that no longer feel like me, so they have been relegated to the basement (take a light)🕯️
This home is meant to be temporary, and I’m planning on moving again before the end of the year, but it was necessary, like an emotional haircut, to prepare for the next home. Also take climb up to the roof 🪜
apoem.life is a site where poems grow, live, and decay
words from one poem can be used to seed a new poem
I’m on a sprint of sharing past work and getting comfortable with revisiting my sites, since they’re made explicitly to be visited over and over again :)
#codeart #creativecoding #website #computationalpoetry
another showing of these printed poems 🖨️
so grateful that I got to bring this to SF and iterate on it — starting to think that I will keep doing so until the installation itself becomes unrecognizable
we made it past the Great Poem Shortage of 2025 — turns out I didnt account for the case where people could print more poems than they seeded 😬 but what a delightful problem to run into
Over the course of a month, 264 poems were seeded, grown, and decayed, and printed.
You guys gave new homes to over 200 poems 🌱
apoem.life (living & growing & decaying) is an interactive web installation that treats text as a living organism. Visitors plant “seed” poems online, which grow and transform over time (mutating syntax, growing new verses, and eventually decaying). The installation pairs this digital ecosystem with a thermal receipt printer, allowing visitors to “clip” a poem in its current state and take it home. Once printed, the poem vanishes from the website, embodying an exchange between the digital and the physical: what is taken away can no longer exist for others.
(excerpt from Vector Festival 2025 exhibition, essay and curation by Dallas Fellini, held at @interaccessto )
a poem a day keeps the blues away
I’ve been collecting the poems I read in this Google sheets spreadsheet site. Each emoji opens to a new poem link. This map has been handcrafted for the past 2 years on and off, and I finally made some custom sheets menu scripts to help me along! Specifically with adding poems and formatting their links with dates, updating the last poemed date (always forgot to do this), keeping track of sheet colors and adding variation to the pixels! It’s very much a site still in progress as I add to the map over time, but you can now explore the public site at aliciaguo.com/apoemaday. I hope you also share your favorite poems!
#poems #website #netart
pictures from demoing apoem.life @tiat.place many moons ago — I’ll be sharing a version of this project this summer at Vector Festival @interaccessto
(sorry tagged wrong account earlier 🥸)
continuing effort to share things I made this year before it’s no longer this year
Woven poem is an interactive installation that asks viewers to participate in collaboratively weaving and un-weaving a poem, created in collaboration with @berniceyuck , @jmrludan , Sophia Diggs-Galligan for Fidget Camp’s exhibition.
