What might poetry for aliens look like? How will we communicate in an exoplanetary future?

“Exoplanetary Poetics: Futuring The Arts, Science, And Technology,” will explore Bart Kuiper’s work as Artist-In-Residence with the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute.

Bart Kuipers’ collaborative work, “Exoplanetary Poetry” with Julie-Michèle Morin and Daniela Brill Estrada at SETI investigates chemistry as a possible universal language and tool for human-alien communication.

The artist will discuss their current project, emerging technology, interdisciplanary collaboration, and how the arts and technology can be used in practice.

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About the Speaker

Bart Kuipers is a hybrid writer and multimedia storyteller from The Netherlands, living in Berlin. He is the unexpected product of degrees in computer science, film and creative writing and works at the intersection of language and science. He is a Fulbright scholar, and was a participant in the Founding Lab program of Ars Electronica and IT:U. Currently, he is an artist-in-residence at the SETI institute where he explores alternative forms of intelligence through the co-authoring of verse. Using machine learning, diagrams, and executable code, he explores the tension between the relentless efficiency of technical systems and the softer registers of poetic expression. The result is a practice that tries to imagine worlds beyond our own, and that speculates on the possibilities of an improved near future. He has also published fiction, non-fiction, and experimental poetry in different magazines in the US and the Netherlands and his screenplays have been produced for Dutch and German television. His latest publications are a paper on this history and future of extraterrestrial communications for the Think Pieces Review of the Institute of Advanced Science at UCL and the experimental augmented reality poem (DIS)TO(PI)A(N) FUTURE! for Re:mediate Magazine.