In this work I used my drawbot LEO, which can interpret a given image and calculate a trajectory for a pen to travel across paper thus creating its own rendition. The algorithm is dependent on various margins of error and attempts to rewrite manuscripts of pieces that come from Reversed Sky, a poetry book written by Syrian poet Kholoud Charaf.

We live in fascinating times, when sophisticated AI translators are available for our disposition at our fingertips, ready to use on the go. There are countless mobile applications, internet dictionaries and software that is capable of recognizing characters on an image and transforming them to speech. These programs may not actually understand our languages per se, but their multi-layered  mechanics allow them to present the data in a way that is comprehensible for us. I found this idea very interesting and tried to visualize a transitional state, where lines of code make sense to a machine, but lose legibility to a real person.

Robotic Poetry