by Elisabeth Sweet | Jul 21, 2025 | conVERSEverse, Uncategorized
The following is an interview with Christian Bök who achieved the extraordinary task of implanting a pair of love poems in the genome of a deathless bacterium, Deinococcus radiodurans which glows red upon reading, writing, and replicating the poem in its DNA. After 25...
by Elisabeth Sweet | Mar 27, 2025 | blog, conVERSEverse, poets
Victoria Chang probes life, death, and uncertainty in With My Back to the World, a collection of poetry which weaves the work of Agnes Martin and On Kawara with verse and mark-making. Several of the poems in Victoria’s latest release are mirrored with an...
by Elisabeth Sweet | Dec 19, 2024 | conVERSEverse, Uncategorized
encapsuled: var(semic) consists of a conversation between Michelangelo, the artist known as encapsuled and Elisabeth Sweet grounded in philosophical texts by David Hume & Ludwig Wittgenstein. each movement culminates with a question inviting the algorithm made by...
by Elisabeth Sweet | Dec 13, 2024 | conVERSEverse, Uncategorized
encapsuled: var(semic) consists of a conversation between Michelangelo, the artist known as encapsuled and Elisabeth Sweet grounded in philosophical texts by David Hume & Ludwig Wittgenstein. each movement culminates with a question inviting the algorithm made by...
by Elisabeth Sweet | Dec 10, 2024 | conVERSEverse, Uncategorized
encapsuled: var(semic) consists of a conversation between Michelangelo, the artist known as encapsuled and Elisabeth Sweet grounded in philosophical texts by David Hume & Ludwig Wittgenstein. each movement culminates with a question inviting the algorithm made by...
by Elisabeth Sweet | Oct 22, 2024 | blog, conVERSEverse, poets
//question by Elisabeth Sweet (ES), audiovisualverbal response by Katie Dozier. sound on. ES: It sounds like listening is a whole-body experience for you – your senses lock into the world and unlock a poem. Beyond the primary five (sight, smell, sound, touch, taste),...