SPEAK YOUR:
BEAUTY
TRUTH
LOVE
Communing & Collaborating with history through AI, Pis, and Tech
By Yuliya Bruk, Jason Reinhardt, Cam Smith and 160+ Visionaries below
Medium: Hacked vintage phone, programmed Raspberry Pi, Thermal printer, Computer, AI language model and vector database containing 162+ creative visionaries and thinkers from history
Artist Statement
This installation invites guests to slow down, reflect, and connect through shared words and collective meaning. Guests interact with three themes—Beauty, Truth, and Love—through a hacked vintage rotary phone, being asked a simple reflective question on these topics. Visitors’ spoken responses are processed through an AI language model that collaborates with diverse historic visionary voices to generate personalized haikus. These poems are instantly printed for guests to take home and displayed on a large communal screen, weaving an evolving, collective poem that celebrates community storytelling and self-inquiry.
To ensure these haikus reflect thoughtful and culturally rich perspectives, the AI draws from a purposefully diverse library of over 160 global thinkers spanning 45+ countries and Indigenous nations. This includes Sufi mystics, African novelists, Indigenous storytellers, East Asian sages, and European reformers. Grounded in this broad human lineage, the installation honors cultural literacy and invites each participant to join a global collective consciousness as part of an ongoing conversation in pursuit of understanding: beauty, truth, and love, the basis of who we are.
Presented at Seattle Art Fair at Future Arts Booth
List of Authors of Quotes and writings featured in the AI consciousness of the Haiku LLM mechanism
Notable Artists, Visionaries, Activists, Progressive Thinkers from all over the world:
Abai Kunanbay
Ada Lovelace
Adrienne Rich
Aesop
Aimé Césaire
Akka Mahadevi
Albert Camus
Albert Einstein
Allen Ginsberg
Ama Ata Aidoo
Amrita Pritam
Aristotle
Audre Lorde
B. R. Ambedkar
Bashō
Ben Okri
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Bob Marley
Buddha
Carl Jung
Carl Sagan
Charlotte Brontë
Chief Seattle
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chinua Achebe
Christina Rossetti
Clarice Lispector
Confucius
César Vallejo
Dalai Lama XIV (Tenzin Gyatso)
Dante Alighieri
Derek Walcott
Desmond Tutu
Du Fu
Eduardo Galeano
Edwidge Danticat
Emily Dickinson
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Fatema Mernissi
Forugh Farrokhzad
Francis Bacon
Frida Kahlo
Friedrich Schiller
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriela Mistral
Georgia O’Keeffe
Gloria Anzaldúa
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Greta Thunberg
Hafez
Han Kang
Hannah Arendt
Henry David Thoreau
Hildegard of Bingen
Ibn Khaldun
Ibn ʿArabi
Isabel Allende
James Baldwin
Jane Austen
Jean-Paul Sartre
Johann Winckelmann
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Keats
Jorge Luis Borges
José Martí
Joy Harjo
Julian of Norwich
Kabir
Kahlil Gibran
Kalidasa
Kim Sowol
King Solomon
L. M. Montgomery
Langston Hughes
Lao Tzu
Laxmi Prasad Devkota
Leo Tolstoy
Leslie Marmon Silko
Li Bai
Li Qingzhao
Louise Bennett-Coverley
Louise Erdrich
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahmoud Darwish
Malala Yousafzai
Margaret Atwood
Mariama Bâ
Marie Curie
Martin Luther King Jr.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Maya Angelou
Meister Eckhart
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Mirabai
Mother Teresa
Murasaki Shikibu
Naguib Mahfouz
Nawal El Saadawi
Nelson Mandela
Nguyễn Du
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Ocean Vuong
Octavia E. Butler
Octavio Paz
Omar Khayyam
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Oscar Wilde
Pablo Neruda
Parveen Shakir
Pema Chödrön
Percy Shelley
Plato
Plotinus
Qiu Jin
Rabia al-Adawiyya
Rabindranath Tagore
Rachel Carson
Rainer Maria Rilke
Ralph Waldo Emerson
René Magritte
Rigoberta Menchú
Robert Graves
Rumi
Saadi Shirazi
Sappho
Sei Shōnagon
Simone Weil
Simone de Beauvoir
Sojourner Truth
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Sri Aurobindo
St. Francis of Assisi
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Wynter
Søren Kierkegaard
T. S. Eliot
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Teresa of Ávila
Thich Nhat Hanh
Toni Morrison
Tukaram
Ursula K. Le Guin
Viktor Frankl
Vincent van Gogh
Virginia Woolf
Vyasa
Walt Whitman
Wang Wei
Wangari Maathai
Warsan Shire
William Hogarth
William Shakespeare
Wole Soyinka
Xu Zhimo
Yehuda Amichai
Yunus Emre
Zhuangzi
Zitkala-Sa
Zora Neale Hurston
bell hooks
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