Poets - theVERSEverse

Elisabeth Sweet

Elisabeth Sweet — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:06:19 +0000

Elisabeth Sweet is a poet exploring patterns of randomness. Her work searches for the hidden thing which is often the most obvious, that which is seen and felt in stillness. She has exhibited her poetry internationally including group exhibitions in New York City, London, Paris, Tallinn, and Bangkok. Elisabeth self-organized her solo exhibition of PIE in Berlin, a show realized through local partnerships and cultivated relationships. On January 1, 2024, Elisabeth established a weekly publication practice on Substack, under the name Species of Value.

Elisabeth is a core member at theVERSEverse, a digital poetry gallery where poem = work of art. She has worked closely with Feral File, The Museum of Modern Art, L’Avant Galerie Vossen, and Ladbroke Hall to further conversation brimming at the intersections
of poetry, art, and technology.

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Katie Dozier

Elisabeth Sweet — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 04:34:45 +0000

Katie Dozier’s love of poetry first bloomed as a child. She memorized Robert Frost sitting on a tree stump and bathed in Edgar Allan Poe as an adolescent. While studying words at Florida State University, KHD also played with chips and became a professional poker player. She’s passionate about encouraging others to discover and share contemporary poetry, through her X account (@Katie_Dozier), as curator of The NFT Poetry Gallery. KHD is the author of Watering Can, and co-authored Hot Pink Moon with Timothy Green. She hosts the weekly podcast The Poetry Space_, is the Haiku Editor for ONE ART, and an editor at Rattle, where she curates a prompt-based poetry series.

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Laurence Fuller

Elisabeth Sweet — Fri, 24 May 2024 18:55:18 +0000

Laurence Fuller is actor, poet and storyteller. Having recently taken on the role of the iconic British painter David Hockney in the new HBO Max series MINX, as well as feature films and theatre productions, Laurence draws on his classical training in contemporary mediums. His poetry sprung out of his acting journals some years ago and began to take a life of their own.

In the medium of digital art Laurence has pioneered a unique style of cinematic poetry, that has been collected, exhibited and featured cross many of the major platforms, galleries and art fairs around the world ~ including collaborations with top artists in the space & IRL. His ongoing partnership with Vincent D’Onofrio, Graphite Method, is pushing boundaries of the medium.

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Allen Ginsberg

hbhljk bhu — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 10:22:18 +0000

Allen Ginsberg’s celebrated poem “Howl,” overcame censorship to become one of the more widely read poems of the twentieth century. Expelled from Cuba, and Czechoslovakia, crowned Prague May King, and placed on the FBI’s Dangerous Security List all within the same year Ginsberg later traveled to and taught in China, Russia, India, Australia, Latin America, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe, where he received Macedonia’s Struga Poetry Festival “Golden Wreath” in 1986. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he won the University of Chicago’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Award in 1991 and France’s “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” in 1993. As well as co-founding the Jack Kerouac School of Poetics at Naropa University, the first accredited Buddhist College in the Western world, he was Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College from 1986 till his death.

Born June 3, 1926, Newark, NJ, he died due to complications of liver cancer in New York City, April 5, 1997.

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Vera Molnar

hbhljk bhu — Sun, 21 May 2023 15:09:07 +0000

Vera Molnar is born in Budapest in 1924. She lives and works in Paris since 1947. She re- fuses to exhibit her “research work” until 1979 with the exception of the “Konkrete Kunst” exhibition in Zurich organized by his friend Max Bill in 1960. She is selected by Cecilia Alemani for the 59th Venice Biennale 2022. She is present in the collections of the Center Pompidou, the Tate Modern and the MoMA.

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Robbie Barrat

hbhljk bhu — Sun, 21 May 2023 14:58:37 +0000

Born in Dublin in 1999, Robbie grew up in West Virginia. After graduating high school, he worked at NVIDIA, then as a researcher in a bioinformatics lab at Stanford university, before moving to Europe to attend art school and work as an artist full time.

Barrat explores a variety of domains through machine learning and GANs (generative adversarial networks), including fashion, architecture, and art history.

Barrat considers A.I both as a medium and as a tool. His interest lies in how the machine can misinterpret training material.
Barrat’s first show, “Infinite Skulls” a confrontation with French painter Ronan Barrot took place at the Avant Galerie Vossen in Feb 2019.

His earlier work is characterized by exploring AI as a tool and subject matter, making works that seek to define the position of an artist working with AI within the history of art. More recently, his work focuses on using AI as a component/tool in a wider process of creation, no longer focusing directly on AI as the sole subject matter.

His last exhibitions: Late Tate during Nam June Paik show, Neural Network Balenciaga, Musée de la mode Hasselt, Ars Electronica , System Failure San Francisco, ArtJaws New York, Robbie Barrat 2018-2020 à l’Avant Galerie Vossen.

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Herbert W. Franke

hbhljk bhu — Sun, 21 May 2023 14:48:17 +0000

Herbert W. Franke (1927-2022) was a pivotal figure in bridging the gap between art and science. He was a scientist, author of science fiction, curator, mathematician, physicist, and speleologist. He was a co-founder of Ars Electronica in 1979. Franke has been called “the most prominent German science fiction writer” by Die Zeit, and a “great storyteller” by the FAZ. He also developed a rational theory of art. As a writer, he has been a pioneer of virtual worlds since 1960 – with his first work DER GRÜNE KOMET (Goldmann, Munich). In addition, he pioneered cave research with the dating of stalactites, with which he was also able to reveal significant information about climatology since the last ice age.

As early as 1957, Franke proved in a book entitled ART AND CONSTRUCTION (Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich) that technology “opens up undreamed-of new artistic territory”. Franke has consistently explored new territory with analytical methods and the assistance of machines for over 70 years, looking into the future of digital art until he arrived in the metaverse as an artist and curator in the early 2000s. He began experimenting with generative photography in 1953, used an analogue computer in 1954, and the first mainframe computers for his abstract algorithmic art in the 1960s and 1970s, before beginning programming himself in 1980 with one of the earliest Apple IIs.

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Tina Chang

hbhljk bhu — Sun, 21 May 2023 14:43:06 +0000

Tina Chang is an American poet, educator, and editor. In 2010, she was the first woman to be named Poet Laureate of Brooklyn and she served in this role for over a decade. A graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program, she is the author of three critically acclaimed collections: Hybrida (W. W. Norton, May 2019), Of Gods & Strangers (Four Way Books, 2011), and Half-Lit Houses (Four Way Books, 2004). She is a professor and Director of Creative Writing at her alma mater, Binghamton University, where she also oversees the initiatives under the Binghamton Center for Writers.

Chang is the recipient of awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Academy of American Poets, Poets & Writers, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, and the Van Lier Foundation among others. In 2011, she was awarded The Women of Excellence Award for her outreach and literary impact on the Brooklyn community. In 2014 and 2017, Brooklyn magazine named Chang one of the 100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn culture. She is the recipient of the 2020 Poets Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets.

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Nick Montfort

hbhljk bhu — Sun, 21 May 2023 14:39:42 +0000

Nick Montfort is a poet and artist who uses computation. His computer-generated books include #! (pronounced “Shebang”) and Golem. His digital projects include the collaborations The Deletionist and Sea and Spar Between. Montfort also studies creative computing. MIT Press has published The New Media Reader (which he co-edited) and his Twisty Little Passages, The Future, and Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities. He directs a lab/studio, The Trope Tank, and is professor of digital media at MIT. He lives in New York City.

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Mark Amerika

hbhljk bhu — Sun, 21 May 2023 14:38:52 +0000

Mark Amerika has exhibited his art in many venues including the Whitney Biennial, the Denver Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, ZKM, the Walker Art Center, and the American Museum of the Moving Image. Amerika has had five early and/or mid-career retrospectives including the first two Internet art retrospectives ever produced (Tokyo and London). Amerika is the author of My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence, the inaugural title in the “Sensing Media” series published in 2022 by Stanford University press. A frequent keynote speaker, Amerika has presented and performed his art and contemporary media theory to over 100 audiences throughout the world. He has given visiting artist presentations in scores of museums, universities, and contemporary arts centers. Selected as a Time Magazine 100 Innovator, Amerika’s work has been featured on CNN and written about in over 150 mainstream, academic and art publications including The New York Times, Die Zeit, El Pais, The Wall Street Journal, The Observer and The Art Magazine of the Tate Museum.

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