The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine

augmented reality
augmented reality
Mar 5
12:00–6:00pm
Monica Storss
Venue:
MIT Memorial Lobby, Building 10
MIT Memorial Lobby, Building 10

The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine is an interactive, co-creative poetry experience in augmented reality. Participants co-create poems with a live poet in a durational site-and-time based installation. The poems are placed into augmented reality environments to find, interact, experience, and archive. The project bridges personal expression and technological mediation, creating a space where individual narratives become shared experiences through poetry, augmented reality, and relational aesthetics.

The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine by Monica Storss

The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine

augmented reality
augmented reality
Mar 5
12:00–6:00pm
Monica Storss
Venue:
MIT Memorial Lobby, Building 10
MIT Memorial Lobby, Building 10

The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine is an interactive, co-creative poetry experience in augmented reality. Participants co-create poems with a live poet in a durational site-and-time based installation. The poems are placed into augmented reality environments to find, interact, experience, and archive. The project bridges personal expression and technological mediation, creating a space where individual narratives become shared experiences through poetry, augmented reality, and relational aesthetics.

The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine by Monica Storss

The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine

augmented reality
augmented reality
Mar 5
12:00–6:00pm
Monica Storss
Venue:
MIT Memorial Lobby, Building 10
MIT Memorial Lobby, Building 10

The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine is an interactive, co-creative poetry experience in augmented reality. Participants co-create poems with a live poet in a durational site-and-time based installation. The poems are placed into augmented reality environments to find, interact, experience, and archive. The project bridges personal expression and technological mediation, creating a space where individual narratives become shared experiences through poetry, augmented reality, and relational aesthetics.

The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine by Monica Storss

The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine

augmented reality
augmented reality
Mar 5
12:00–6:00pm
Monica Storss
Venue:
MIT Memorial Lobby, Building 10
MIT Memorial Lobby, Building 10

The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine is an interactive, co-creative poetry experience in augmented reality. Participants co-create poems with a live poet in a durational site-and-time based installation. The poems are placed into augmented reality environments to find, interact, experience, and archive. The project bridges personal expression and technological mediation, creating a space where individual narratives become shared experiences through poetry, augmented reality, and relational aesthetics.

The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine by Monica Storss

The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine

augmented reality
augmented reality
Mar 5
12:00–6:00pm
Monica Storss
Venue:
MIT Memorial Lobby, Building 10
MIT Memorial Lobby, Building 10

The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine is an interactive, co-creative poetry experience in augmented reality. Participants co-create poems with a live poet in a durational site-and-time based installation. The poems are placed into augmented reality environments to find, interact, experience, and archive. The project bridges personal expression and technological mediation, creating a space where individual narratives become shared experiences through poetry, augmented reality, and relational aesthetics.

The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine by Monica Storss

The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine

augmented reality
augmented reality
Mar 5
12:00–6:00pm
Monica Storss
Venue:
MIT Memorial Lobby, Building 10
MIT Memorial Lobby, Building 10

The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine is an interactive, co-creative poetry experience in augmented reality. Participants co-create poems with a live poet in a durational site-and-time based installation. The poems are placed into augmented reality environments to find, interact, experience, and archive. The project bridges personal expression and technological mediation, creating a space where individual narratives become shared experiences through poetry, augmented reality, and relational aesthetics.

The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine by Monica Storss

The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine

augmented reality
augmented reality
Mar 5
12:00–6:00pm
Monica Storss
Venue:
MIT Memorial Lobby, Building 10
MIT Memorial Lobby, Building 10

The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine is an interactive, co-creative poetry experience in augmented reality. Participants co-create poems with a live poet in a durational site-and-time based installation. The poems are placed into augmented reality environments to find, interact, experience, and archive. The project bridges personal expression and technological mediation, creating a space where individual narratives become shared experiences through poetry, augmented reality, and relational aesthetics.

The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine transforms personal narratives into site-specific poetry through real-time collaboration between participants and poets. Beginning with an intake form, each participant's information inspires a custom poem crafted by a human poet. These poems populate an augmented reality environment, grouped thematically to create a collective experience. As participants discover their poems in the AR space, they engage with both the virtual artwork and the physical community, exploring intersections of spatial justice, data analysis, performance writing, and experiential storytelling.

Monica Storss is a poet and researcher focusing on interactive poetics in new media including AI, XR, VR, spatial computing and sensing, and gaming. Her creative work explores the intersection of off-world art, poetics, and emergent technologies through critical making and relational aesthetics, investigating how language inhabits virtual, speculative, and material spaces. She is a humanities futurist, and works with innovation and invention education with the Lemelson-MIT Program (LMIT). Storss founded the arts collective Digital Poetics and created The Augmented Reality Poetry Machine. The project, which premiered at MIT's Hacking Arts Festival in 2019, achieved lunar deployment in February 2021.

www.monicastorss.com

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