takahito

i’ve been getting lots of questions about the earlier days of my AI practice and the intersection of poetry, art and AI, and i really think my best answer is this book — a set of transhuman poems nestled into its own training data. reflecting over a decade of my human writings and research into language, posthumanism and futurity, plus full-color images of my physical and multimedia language artwork, it was the culmination of so much of my life and thinking when it came out in 2021, and is foundational to everything i do — from investigations of poetry as both an art and a technology (ars poetica *and* ars technica) over the course of millennia to musings on what motherhood means in an age of artificial reproduction and the preservation of my Kalmyk heritage, a matrix of themes and voices and ideas and questions and hypotheses and philosophies. it is the seed of a vision for the future of poetry that goes beyond the literary and artistic to encompass the role that linguistic innovations have always played in the development of human consciousness, and the augmentation of human imagination. it was the honor of a lifetime for this book to be blurbed by my heroes ray kurzweil and alan lightman and many others. if you do not have a copy yet, the number one thing you can do to support and understand me and my practice is to read it and sit with it. truly hope you consider purchasing one from the @BlackSpringUK website or listening to the audiobook at @Spotify. (i promise it’s not like any other audiobook you’ve ever heard.) 🙏💚

sunday reading… did you know that the last section of my 2021 book #technelegy — “ars poetica cybernetica,” a title that extends the ancient idea of “the art of poetry” to include the concept of systems and techne — is a mini language art exhibition in book form?