This workshop led by Kuipers and Storss explores how astronomical data from confirmed exoplanets can generate new poetic forms and linguistic constraints. Participants will examine how environmental conditions shape language, metaphor, and narrative structure. We’ll develop from writing exercises that respond to non-terrestrial physical parameters: alternative light spectra, gravitational variations, and atmospheric compositions. The workshop investigates how scientific constraints can productively defamiliarize human experience and create new frameworks for creativity and expression. Participants will produce original work while considering broader questions about environment, perception, and cultural formation in speculative contexts, and how the arts, sciences, and technology inform each other in realtional multiplicities.

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Note: This is an advanced generative creative workshop. Participants should have prior experience with advanced generative writing workshops or praxis. Suitable for participants from STEM, humanities, or interdisciplanary backgrounds.

About The Facilitators:

Bart Kuipers: Bart Kuipers is an internationally recognized artist whose work spans technology, art, and poetry. His residency at the SETI Institute allows him to explore themes of deep time, cosmic scales, and the search for meaning in the universe. He is the unexpected product of master degrees in computer science and creative writing. His fiction and poetry have appeared in magazines in the Netherlands and the US, and his screenplays have been produced for Dutch and German public television. He is based in Berlin.

Monica Storss: Monica Storss is a poet and humanities futurist. She is the creator of The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine, and has a poetry installation on Earth’s moon. She has edited, curated, published, exhibited, and advocated for emerging technology art forms, poetics, and pedagogies at MIT, UC Davis, Intel, HP Inc, and in cultural spaces globally. She researches poetics and emerging technology as a doctoral student at CAMD. She is a guest editor at Re:mediate, her forthcoming work for Springer Nature is titled “Postdigital Relationality: Entaglement, Agency, and Critical Becoming” and her book chapter “Why Artists Will Build The Metaverse Economy” is coming out from IntechOpen later this year.