Eran Hadas, Tel Aviv-based new media artist, poet and experimental software designer
Tel-Aviv based poet Eran Hadas uses his skills as an experimental software developer to build ?augmented poetry? generators, where algorithms assemble poems. His methods anticipate the dawn of artificial intelligence which will revolutionise concepts of personhood in the future, and demonstrate how poetry will nevertheless retain a vital role in helping us understand and explore these new terrains. In this month’s Poetry Muse, Rhiannon Williams speaks to Hadas about the the Tel-Aviv poetry scene and creative technology.
?I think [poetry] should both reflect and affect reality,? explains Eran Hadas in our interview, something that could be taken as insightful not only about poetry but also on the role of technology. Striking a fascinating figure on the Israeli literary scene, Eran is literally reconfiguring poetic function, fusing his technological and literary skills to create radical and intriguing works. For the Mind Your Poem project, for example, Eran used a special headset to record brain waves and create poems from the readings of people?s emotions: a kind of poetry that is as utterly post-modern as could be. Follow LUX on Instagram: the.official.lux.magazine
His innovative projects and poems have featured in the Venice Biennale, the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art and the Warsaw POPe?nione exhibition among others. He was the Binyamin Gallery poet in residence in 2016, the 2017 Schuster...