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MLA 2027!
Very excited to be presenting at the Modern Language Association Conference 2027. I’ll be presenting in the Alternate Minds: Ghosts, Aliens, and Queer LLMs sponsored by the Electronic Literature Organization. I will be presenting my work and research Exoplanetary Poetry as an artist in residence at the SETI institute.
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SETI Live Interview
Today, we are very excited to be interviewed by the SETI institute about our project Exoplanetary Poetry on their SETI Live broadcast! 🛸 View the broadcast here on Youtube! ✏️ 🧪✏️ 🧪✏️ 🧪✏️ 🧪✏️ 🧪✏️ 🧪✏️ 🧪✏️ 🧪✏️ 🧪 We will be talking about using chemistry as a language to write poetry in, and about stating chemistry as a live performance. We will also…
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Chemical Bodies of Work
From 12-12-2025 to 12-03-2026 our work Exoplanetary Bodies of Work will be shown at the group exhibition Extraterrestrial Posthumanism of Ectopia Lab and Cultivamos Cultura! We describe the piece as: A coming-of-age space story experienced by a hydrogen atom, a potassium-aluminium sulfate crystal, and a sodium cloud, as narrated by Jupi, the humble TLM with…
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Becoming Aliens: an essay
My essay Becoming Aliens: Towards a Universal Language for Extra-Terrestrial Communication was published in the special issue of Think Pieces, themed ‘Languages of the Future’. Special thanks to Josh Weeks and Flora Sagers for guest editing this issue and to Marthe Lisson, the editor. Think pieces is the online review of the Institute of Advanced…
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Workshop: Writing with Aliens
Together with Julie-Michèle Morin and Daniela Brill Estrada, we will be at Ectopia Lab in Lisbon to give our workshop Writing With Aliens: Literature in the Lab! The workshop is part of a two day event on Extraterrestrial Posthumanism hosted by Ectopia Lab and Cultivamos Cultura at 11 & 12 February 2026. Look at a…
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Presentation at Northeastern
I will present my work and our SETI project at the College of Arts, Media, and Design at Northeastern University on October 7th! Join me and Monica Storss for an artist talk and a workshop on Exoplanetary Poetry and Other-Earthly Art. Look here for the announcement Register here!
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Bi++ : A Different Code Poem
I’ven been working more on my Bi++ esoteric programming language and wrote these code poems to demonstrate the power of a non-binary computational system.
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TTT 2025
We had so much fun presenting our project Exoplanetary Poetry at TTT 2025 (TABOO – TRANSGRESSION – TRANSCENDENCE). Thank you for everyone who came to hear us speak on exploring chemistry as a tool for communication with aliens and stretching the notions of poetry and computer assisted writing far beyond the human-centered notions. We were…
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(DYS)TO(PI)A(N) FUTURE! Publication
My Augmented Reality poem (DYS) TO(PI) A(N) FUTURE! was published in Re-Mediate Litmag, Issue 3! (Scroll down to find it, or look at it here.) Dystopian Future is an Augmented Reality poem that exists in two realities at the same time. By opening the web-viewer (in the link) and pointing it at the poem, you’re…
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Cultivamos Cultura Residency
With our project, Exoplanetary Poetry, we will be in residency at the wonderful playground that is Cultivamos Cultura in São Luis in the south of Portugal. Daniela Brill Estrada, Julie-Michèle Morin, and myself will be experimenting with chemistry as a poetic language and trying to find answers to the questions: How do we translate a…
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Rabbit Academy
Between 2023 and 2025 I wrote 7 episodes for the animation series Rabbit Academy – The Series. City bunny Max and his friends Kela and Chester are accepted into the legendary bunny school – Rabbit Academy. Here, hidden in the forest, bunny magic is taught, as well as discipline and order. Max, Kela and Chester…
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Bi++ : A Non-Binary Programming Language
Bi++ is a conceptual experiment in the form of an esoteric programming language that explores the consequences of a world structured through binaries for people with bi+ orientations, understood here as attraction to more than one gender. As Meg-John Barker and Alex Iantaffi write in Life Isn’t Binary, “Despite being one of the largest groups…
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Re-Mediate Reading
Honored to be reading my new Augmented Reality poem “(DYS)TO(PI)A(N) FUTURE!” at the Second Tuesday Salon of the Electronic Literature Organization dedicated to the launch of Re-Mediate Litmag Issue 3!
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Poem: A Bit of Surveillance
Berlin’s most sympathetic journal, Reality Scratch, published my UML poem “A Bit of Surveillance”. Thanks to editors Melissa Frost and Thomas McDonald and all the other authors for this great issue! This poem was constructed using UML (Unified Modeling Language), a modeling tool for software systems. To create the diagram and try and capture the current precarious moment in tech affairs, I used PlantText (the expert’s design…
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Hromovyi Kamin’
Together with artist Letta Shtohryn and artist-researcher Daniela Brill Estrada, I’m working on the CGI-documentary with working title Hromovyi Kamin’ (Ukrainian for “Thunderstone”). In 1866, Europe’s largest meteorite fell in the village of Knyahinya, in the Ukrainian Carpathians — then part of the Austrian Empire. Knyahinya’s well-witnessed fall inspired paintings, fiction, as well as scientific…
Bart Kuipers (he/him) is an artist-researcher from The Netherlands working at the intersection of digital technology, language, and artificial intelligence. Currently, he is an artist-in-residence at the SETI institute where he explores co-authoring chemical poetry with alternative forms of intelligence. He has published fiction, non-fiction, and experimental poetry in different magazines in the US and the Netherlands and his screenplays have been produced for Dutch and German television.