Collage Poem

🧾 DETAILS

Artist: Sasha Stiles (with Ana Maria Caballero & Kalen Iwamoto)

Year: 2022

Medium: Video (Audio-Visual generative poem, NFT)

Dimensions: n/a

Category: Poetry / Digital Literature

Room: Room 6 — Language & Generative Narrative (Section: Language as Structure)

🧠 DESCRIPTION

Collage Poem is a collaborative audio-visual work in which lines from multiple poets are combined into a single evolving composition. Words appear, overlap, and recombine across the screen, forming a dynamic textual field.

The poem is not presented linearly, but as a layered and shifting structure where fragments interact visually and temporally.

🔍 SIGNIFICANCE

• Demonstrates collaborative authorship across multiple voices
• Explores language as modular and recombinable material
• Extends poetry into spatial and visual composition
• Introduces networked narrative (multiple sources → single output)
• Reinforces language as system rather than fixed text

✍️ INTERPRETATION

In this work, language is no longer singular.

It becomes:

👉 composite

The poem is constructed from:

• multiple authors
• multiple fragments
• multiple temporal layers

Words do not follow a linear sequence.

They:

• appear
• overlap
• interfere
• recombine

This creates a new condition:

👉 language as field rather than line

Meaning is no longer stable or sequential.

It emerges from:

👉 relations between fragments

The visual form reinforces this:

• different colors → different voices
• overlapping text → simultaneous narratives
• motion → temporal instability

Authorship is redistributed:

• no single voice dominates
• the poem is assembled rather than written

This reflects a broader shift:

👉 from individual expression

👉 to collective and systemic language production

Narrative becomes:

👉 combinatorial

🧩 POSITION IN THE COLLECTION

This work occupies a transitional position within the collection, where language becomes collaborative and networked.

It functions as a bridge, articulating a shift from individual authorship to collective textual construction.

Within the collection, it is distinguished by its multi-voice composition.

Language becomes assemblage.

📚 PROVENANCE

NFT — Objkt platform

https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1RsN6ip4cbWitqY7tAmBpghGhLNcZSRGfP/2