Exoplanetary Poetry: AI, Chemistry, and Alien Communication

About this episode

Artists discuss how language might emerge from alien worlds through an art-science collaboration using AI and atmospheric data from exoplanets.

Our Cosmic Consciousness residency artists daniela brill estrada, Bart Kuipers, and Julie-Michèle Morin, discuss an art-science collaboration that imagines how language might emerge from alien worlds. Hosts: Bettina Forget and Cosmic Consciousness residency advisor Gregory Betts. Join SETI AIR program Director Bettina Forget for a conversation with Cosmic Consciousness artists in residence daniela brill estrada, Bart Kuipers, and Julie-Michèle Morin, joined by residency advisor Gregory Betts. Together, they will discuss Exoplanetary Poetry, an art-science collaboration that imagines how language might emerge from alien worlds. Using atmospheric data from real exoplanets, the team trains an artificial intelligence to write poems alongside human collaborators. The resulting texts are translated back into chemistry, forming multisensory installations where reactions generate visual forms, textures, and scent. How can molecules become metaphors? What does it mean to co-author with a nonhuman intelligence shaped by planetary science? And can poetry help us think differently about life beyond Earth? Exoplanetary Poetry: https://exoplanetarypoetry.space/ Sara Walker…

People in this episode

Host: Bettina Forget

Guests: daniela brill estrada, Bart Kuipers, Julie-Michèle Morin

Topics covered

• art-science collaboration
• alien communication
• exoplanets
• AI in poetry
• multisensory installations

Keywords

• exoplanets
• AI
• poetry
• alien communication
• art-science collaboration

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SETI Institute, SETI AIR program

Books & works: Exoplanetary Poetry

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