In early 2021, the contemporary art museum of Luxembourg, MUDAM, approached Géisskan Kollektiv to collaborate on their summer program. The initiative involved organizing several events and an interactive exhibition. We organized and hosted two workshops and four spoken word events, ensuring a seamless and engaging experience for all participants.
Furthermore, we were asked to create an artwork for their collaborative room, where museum visitors can interact with the exhibition. "hAIku" thus is an interactive exhibition where we explored what it means to be a poet. We wanted to compare the work of famous poets, visitors at the MUDAM and randomly generated scripts by an AI. We wanted to explore questions like; What does it mean to be a poet? Are we replaceable by an AI or script? Are visitors of the museum able to match the quality of an established writer?
Haiku poems are a Japanese form of syllable poetry that consists of 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second and 5 syllables in the third. A total of more than 500 Haikus will have been generated by an AI, written by ourselves and the audience of the MUDAM. These were printed by a large scale plotter on a seemingly endless roll of over 100 metres of paper.
