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Studies, Poemportraits, 2017–ongoing

This is a Studies. It is dated 2017–ongoing. Its medium is cardstock, paper, mirror, and board; installed 2017–ongoing, serpentine galleries, london, uk . It is a part of the department.

“In 2017, I was asked to make a temporary sculpture for London’s Serpentine Galleries Summer Party. My initial intention was to create a spiral of text around the circular pavilion. These models were early explorations of the idea. We collaborated with Google Arts & Culture, who developed a machine-learning algorithm trained on 20 million lines of 19th-century poetry. Each party guest donated a word to the algorithm, which composed a collective poem.”

It is credited Courtesy of Es Devlin.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition An Atlas of Es Devlin.

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