DeepDreamPoetry

deepDreamPoetry is a desktop application that captures keyboard input and reconfigures typed letters into new sentences according to predetermined syntactic rules. Inspired by the phenomenon of AI ‘hallucinations,’ this project is a creative emulation of a large language model; though no actual model is used, the output can appear coherent enough to suggest training. While it can emulate basic syntax, it lacks the ability to learn or understand context, resulting in strange and accidental moments of concrete poetry.

This work was coded in c++ / openFrameworks. While it exists as a desktop application, it can also be presented as a large interactive media projection.

Max Dooher

Max Dooher (he/him) is an interdisciplinary artist and computational designer based in K’jipuktuk / Halifax, Nova Scotia. Interested in the histories which exist in the spaces between people and technology, Max creates screen-based applications and media installations which engage the public with modes of inquiry into shared space, often through augmented realit(ies)y and processes of collective archiving.