Year

2025

Medium

interactive web piece, poetry tool

Context

Published in Ensemble Park Issue #2

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Description:

What if working with text was like battling the Hydra?

Cephalopoet is a tool for generating poems with too many arms, reminiscent of a tentacled body. The only action available to you is deletion and for each cut, two more nodes grow back, spiraling the piece out of control. When working with AI text, regenerating is one of the most common actions one takes — what happens when the act of cutting comes with a cost?

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