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A kitchen laboratory of experimental computational poetry by Halim Madi. Non-human poets, anti-gravitational word interfaces, somatic semantics. This is where I break and mend things.
Featured Works
Non Human Poets
Got scam? An AI trained on scam emails generates new poetic frauds. The language of deception becomes absurdist verse.
Border/line
Robert Coover Award Winner 2024
Hostile immigration questions float across the screen while "No" checkboxes flee your cursor. The interface becomes the border.
Identity fragments as the interface demands assimilation. What parts of yourself must you delete to pass through?
The body stretches toward belonging. Reaching across digital space mirrors the migrant's perpetual extension toward acceptance.
A countdown: 299 days until your documents arrive. The excruciating temporality of bureaucratic limbo rendered as interface.
Somatic Poetry Sandbox
A browser-based performance reimagining human-AI relations through viral transformation. Dropdowns, tabs, and carousels become poetic scaffolding.
An interactive canvas where mouse movements trace semantic connections. Each click draws threads between floating words.
A war memory disperses on hover. Words scatter like shrapnel when approached, then slowly reassemble.
Your cursor leaves a trail of red dots across the Wikipedia entry for Nakba. Reading becomes marking, marking becomes witnessing.
Words flee from your cursor like startled animals. A meditation on joy's elusiveness—the harder you chase, the further it scatters.
A playful typographic exercise where letters literally bend on command. Click and watch the word transform.
An unfolding click-through poem about observation, bodies, and shame. Each interaction reveals the next line.
Click "storm" and watch "brain" orbit chaotically. Compound words decomposed into kinetic metaphor.
An interactive erasure poem after Kate Baer's "Re: Holding Police Accountable." Reveal hidden poetry by removing what's in the way.
A cataloguing poem about the infinite variety of experience. Lists as poetry, enumeration as meditation.
After Jack Shaheen's "Reel Bad Arabs." A meditation on stereotypes, representation, and the violence of images.
A branching poem about decisions and their consequences. Every choice closes one door and opens another.
An invitation to conflict, a dare. The poem asks to be overcome—but can language ever truly lose?
A kinetic poem about departure and movement. Letters scatter across the screen like travelers leaving home.
A typewriter effect reveals text character by character—the intimacy of watching words appear as if spoken directly to you.
A digital reimagining of Sir Thomas Wyatt's 16th-century poem, where words scatter like the "they" who once sought the speaker.