Negative Poetry

Negative Bible is an AI-generated text that systematically negates The Book of Genesis from the King James version of the Bible (1611). Questioning both machine and human capacities to negate, this is the first AI Bible to be (digitally) published. Developed through machine learning and large language models (LLMs), this project explores how AI navigates…

Negative Poetry v.2.0: AI Color Theory is an experiment in negation using color-text relations and machine learning. Using OpenAI’s CLIP model – one of the first successful models trained on a large corpus of both text and images – we developed a system where 4096 colors (12-bit RGB) are matched to words of an English…

The End Of Individuals is a work that negatively translates the book On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1859). Intersecting art and artificial intelligence, the work is an experiment in language that explores machine and human capacities to negate. By using machine learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLM), the custom-made…

Negative October Salon: Overtime Boycott is a work developed in the context of the 59th October Salon. The work presents a negative version of the announcement and introductory text of the first October Salon that opened in Belgrade on October 20, 1960. Using Negative Poetry software, the text is computer generated and then minimally edited…

[Online performance] Negative Poetry Human Algorithm is an online performance bridging collective thinking, theatre and complexity science. A computer made of people tackles the complex task of transforming a poem into its negative or opposite, thereby generating a potentially infinite combinatorial polyphony of possibilities. The work is a collaboration between Katarina Petrović, Orion Maxted and…

Negative Poetry Machine Algorithm is a custom made software that translates The King James Version of the Bible (org.pub.1611) into its negative using the database of the Oxford English Dictionary. The software is designed to search for word antonyms for each given word in three levels. First level are direct antonyms of the word. If…