Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Intermedia Collaboration by Sarah Ridgely and Christian Bok: Algorithmically Generated Asemics in "Fifty Days at Iliam" (Canada, USA, UK)


Algorithmically generated asemics by Sarah Ridgley (Arkansas, USA) in her collaboration 
with Christian Bok entitled "Fifty Days at Iliam." Performed at Ladbroke Hall, London. 
(Image courtesy of the artists) (June 2025)



Algorithmically generated asemics were among the wonders of new poetic and artistic genres featured in the collaborative piece "Fifty Days at Iliam" performed in London by Canadian experimental poet Christian Bok. 

The work was commissioned by VERSEverse and both documentation and digital art from the performance are available online for free and some of the art is available for sale.

More about artist Sarah Ridgely:

https://sarahridgley.com/

More about "Fifty Days at Iliam":

https://theverseverse.com/poems/fifty-days-at-iliam-sarah-ridgley 


"I prompted AI [Artificial Intelligence] to compose ten lyrics based on paintings by Cy Twombly. Then Sarah [Ridgely] used an algorithm to convert each poem into an asemic script."

- Christian Bok





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