COMPOSE (2022) is an open edition of unique poetry broadsides based on an interactive “pose poem” by Sasha Stiles and Nathaniel Stern, in collaboration with playrecordmint, for the exhibition DYOR at Kunsthalle Zürich.

The series utilizes a combination of interactive and minting technology to leverage blockchain as a bespoke printing press, nodding to the historical advent of moveable type and printed literature while looking ahead to the future of authorship, readership and publishing. At its center is a poem written by Technelegy – Stiles’ AI-powered alter ego, a custom text generator rooted in GPT-3 and fine-tuned on her own writing and reference materials. Visitors are invited to engage with words on screen via code written by Stern, resulting in a uniquely personal, one of a kind interpretation of the poem that draws visual and conceptual elements from both Stiles’ and Stern’s work.

playrecordmint.xyz is a screen and sensor setup that allows artists to invite an audience on site to co-author animated sequences or still images within an artwork, which they can then mint as a NFT. playrecordmint partners with artists to conduct interactive experiments, bridging physically embodied interaction and the creation of digital artifacts on the blockchain.

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