Rooted in the Concrete Poetry movement’s focus on the materiality of their poetry, Ink, Interrupted presents at its core an AI-driven typewriter autonomously creating concrete poetry. This practice reintroduces the tactile presence of words where each typed letter becomes both mark and object, emphasizing the spatial, visual, and material qualities of language.

On a more technical level we examine how advanced neural networks can be trained to generate “non-trivial” concrete poems that treat language as a visual and material medium. Evaluating the AI’s results and its process through the lens of the concrete poetry movement and its theories on the materiality of language, we wonder – how are traditional notions of interpretive meaning and emotional resonance reconfigured?

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