10 days into the new year and it feels like 2020 is still dragging… (2022 is pronounced “twenty twenty too” for a reason). But not all is bad news, here’s a lovely new poem I built using Qualtrics to cheer you up: Potential Ideas and Other Things that Live in Your Gut
It was published on Hyperrhiz right at the end of 2021, together with some fantastic essays by fellow e-lit researchers. I also wrote an artist statement where I explain how the poem works following the structure of a product concept test. This means that the poem captures real-time feedback on readers’ selection of eleven new poetic concepts by evaluating their emotional and aesthetic response to a set of surprising biological facts about bacteria and human development. Take the poem and see for yourself:
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