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Metahaven, Large Language Model (I-IV), 2023, jacquard weavings with cast resin superstructures. Installation view at Tick Tack, Antwerp, Fall 2023

Metahaven, Large Language Model (I), 2023, jacquard weaving and cast resin superstructure. Installation view at Tick Tack, Antwerp, Fall 2023

Metahaven, Large Language Model (IV), 2023, jacquard weaving and cast resin superstructure. Installation view at Tick Tack, Antwerp, Fall 2023

Is Language Worldless. On Poetry and Al–a symposium on poetry, language, embodiment, and LLMs with Asia Bazdyrieva, Yevgenia Belorusets, Maxime Garcia Diaz, Metahaven, and Eugene Ostashevsky–taking place in Leipzig at HALLE 14 on March 23, 2024, as part of the Leipzig Book Fair. In 2023, OpenAl, the company developing ChatGPT, published a list of human occupations that it predicts as endangered by the rise of Al. Topping the list of threatened vocations were poets. So, does a computationally optimized method for concatenating words–such as a Large Language Model–produce or understand poetry? For the Large Language Model, this may not matter as long as its output is aligned with its objectives. But as social and planetary technologies with transformative effects, Large Language Models have already entered a territory where their outputs are intentionally or accidentally conflated with human-made art or literature. Poets and screenwriters often emphasize embodied and situated understandings of poetics. Yet artificial intelligence points somewhere else. How might Al’s understanding of language affect the future of writing? 

Is Language Wordless. On Poetry and Al–a symposium on poetry, language, embodiment, and LLMs with Asia Bazdyrieva, Yevgenia Belorusets, Maxime Garcia Diaz, Metahaven, and Eugene Ostashevsky–taking place in Leipzig at HALLE 14 on March 23, 2024, as part of the Leipzig Book Fair. In 2023, OpenAl, the company developing ChatGPT, published a list of human occupations that it predicts as endangered by the rise of Al. Topping the list of threatened vocations were poets. So, does a computationally optimized method for concatenating words–such as a Large Language Model–produce or understand poetry? For the Large Language Model, this may not matter as long as its output is aligned with its objectives. But as social and planetary technologies with transformative effects, Large Language Models have already entered a territory where their outputs are intentionally or accidentally conflated with human-made art or literature. Poets and screenwriters often emphasize embodied and situated understandings of poetics. Yet artificial intelligence points somewhere else. How might Al’s understanding of language affect the future of writing? 

Metahaven, Murmurations (2024), embroidery on plastic bags. Installation view at Chaos Theory, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2024

"Entropy Moves." Philosopher Bogna Konior on the work of Metahaven, published in Metahaven: Autopoiesis, exhibition catalogue, Tick Tack, Antwerp, 2023.

Metahaven, Chaos Theory, 2021, film work, Grounds, 2021, jacquard rugs. film installation at Asakusa.o, Tokyo, 2023-24. Metahaven, Holding the Storm, 2023-24, 1-6-16 Nishi-Asakusa Taito Tokyo

Metahaven, Chaos Theory, 2021, film work, Grounds, 2021, jacquard rugs. film installation at Asakusa.o, Tokyo, 2023-24. Metahaven, Holding the Storm, 2023-24, 1-6-16 Nishi-Asakusa Taito Tokyo

Metahaven, Chaos Theory, 2021, film work, Grounds, 2021, jacquard rugs. film installation at Asakusa.o, Tokyo, 2023-24. Metahaven, Holding the Storm, 2023-24, 1-6-16 Nishi-Asakusa Taito Tokyo

Metahaven, Versions and Waves, 2020. Jacquard weaving, climbing gear, installation view at “Autopoiesis,” Tick Tack, Antwerp, 2023

Metahaven, Chaos Theory (2021), installation view at "Autopoiesis," Tick Tack, Antwerp, 2023

Metahaven, Chaos Theory (2021)

Metahaven, Chaos Theory (2021)

Metahaven, Chaos Theory (2021)

Metahaven, Chaos Theory (2021)