The Poetry Hole (2023), Exeter & online               A collaboration with the University of Exeter and Four of Swords Theatre company as part of the We Love Big Brother interactive drama project, the Poetry Hole is an app which translates Oldspeak to Newspeak in real time. The project is part of an investigation into experiences of people with schizophrenia and the emerging practices of AI assisted ‘avatar therapies’. http://four-of-swords.com/                                                      

Particle Poem Collider (2022), Edinburgh           Commissioned for the 2022 Push the Boat Out International Poetry Festival, Edinburgh, the PPC fed poetry from the festival through an AI to create an amalgamous collective poem which was displayed on scrolling LED panels at Summerhall. The PPC questioned ideas of ownership and authenticity in an AI age, and was accompanied by a curated Poetry pamphlet and editorial ‘Sonnets to Space Happened’. https://pipthornton.com/2022/10/27/particle-poem-collider/

Poet vs. Google : Improv slam (2021)           Mirroring the fluctuating value of words as they are auctioned off for Google adverts, this work invited poets/improvs to pitch themselves not only against each other, but against the algorithmic reckoning of linguistic capitalism in a series of knock-out live improv slams. Participants competed to create the most capital from improvised poems priced by Google and prompted by existing first lines.

ARCADIA (2020), Fruitmarket Gallery Bookmarket, Edinburgh Commissioned installation for The Fruitmarket Gallery Bookmarket, Waverley Mall, Edinburgh, Feb-March 2020. LED stock market ticker displays the text of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project as priced by Google’s algorithms; a critique of capitalism and advertising in both digital and physical spaces.