https://www.xenopoem.com/log daily 0.75 2026-04-27 https://www.xenopoem.com/log/xenopoem-conference-2026-interlocutors monthly 0.5 2026-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69bca9f25989203690de315f/4566510c-763b-4a87-b8a7-d0e9b559ac73/Andrew+C+Wenaus_Author+Pic.jpg LOG - Xenopoem Conference 2026 Interlocutors - Andrew C. Wenaus Andrew C. Wenaus is a literary theorist, poet, writer, and composer. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Writing Studies and Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario. His research engages experimental writing as a site for rethinking futurity, with particular attention to post-national cosmism, xenopoetics, and emerging theoretical models of communism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69bca9f25989203690de315f/c4d63a52-117b-4577-8afc-06a44c1be8c1/B.jpg LOG - Xenopoem Conference 2026 Interlocutors - B. B. is the founder and chief editor of Posthuman Press. Their current project is a book on therolinguistics, gathering literature already being made from other species. They approach xenopoetics via truth by way of considering how best to make real a more-than-human encounter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69bca9f25989203690de315f/f66ad712-cbf9-46ca-80c0-086029a2b9f6/davidroden.png LOG - Xenopoem Conference 2026 Interlocutors - David Roden David Roden’s research has addressed deconstruction and analytic philosophy, naturalism, sound and posthumanism. His book Posthuman Life: Philosophy at the Edge of the Human (Routledge New York, 2014) explores the epistemological and ethical ramifications of Speculative Posthumanism: the thesis that there could be agents originating in human social-technical systems which become posthuman as a result of some technological alteration. He also writes experimental fiction and concept horror. His novella Snuff Memories was published by Schism[2] Press (2021). His new collection of fiction and theory fiction, Xenoerotics, was published in 2023 also by Schism[2]. His latest essay, ‘The Good, The Bad and the Grimdark: Why Technological Mastery Precludes Collective Self-Mastery’ is currently out in Technophany: a journal for philosophy and technology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69bca9f25989203690de315f/11f7d37f-bea9-47d4-9e67-8784e4bc7437/german.jpg LOG - Xenopoem Conference 2026 Interlocutors - Germán Sierra Germán Sierra is a writer, neuroscientist, molecular biologist, and a member of the Humanities Research Institute (iHUS) at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The Artifact (Inside the Castle, 2018), Interstitial Artelligence (in collaboration with Emanuel Magno; Centre for Experimental Ontology Press, 2022), and Zipf Maneuvers (in collaboration with Andrew C. Wenaus; Erratum Press, 2025) are among his more recent books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69bca9f25989203690de315f/ce1f7084-c312-4d98-84f3-1cf504c62f57/mikhail.jpg LOG - Xenopoem Conference 2026 Interlocutors - Mikhail Fedorchenko Mikhail Fedorchenko holds a PhD in Philosophy from the European University at Saint Petersburg. He is an independent researcher in philosophy of technology and AI, public lecturer, translator and an admin of the Machinic Embodiment and Post/work tg channels. His notable English-language works include Cyberbuddhist Accelerationism of GUNNM in XENOFUTURISM Magazine: Volume 2 Technologies of Domination, 2025, Emancipatory Technics and Transindividual Cybernetic Machines of Felix Guattari: Ecotechnopoiesis of Splicings in LA DELEUZIANA – ONLINE JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, 2023 and translation of Felix Guattari's play Pardemides in Guattari and the Ancients: Theatrical Dialogues in Early Philosophy (2025) https://www.xenopoem.com/log/2026-presenters monthly 0.5 2026-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69bca9f25989203690de315f/601230de-5511-410d-b081-03b08fe1dddd/Adra.jpg LOG - Xenopoem Conference 2026 Presenters - Adra Raine Dancing Light On an ordinary afternoon, sunlight moves through window blinds onto a wall, appearing to dance in response to the music playing in the room. Dancing Light takes this short video as a site of perceptual inquiry, asking whether the apparent choreography is coincidence or something stranger. What perceptual habits prevent us from recognizing non-human expression? What becomes available when those habits are briefly suspended? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69bca9f25989203690de315f/95481772-33dc-45d8-ae31-242c3e4c477f/Screenshot+2026-04-23+at+08.31.46.png LOG - Xenopoem Conference 2026 Presenters - Alden Nagel × Alberto Gennaro Hypernode Vivivariation - Egregore Writer Alden Nagel and media artist Alberto Gennaro translate xenopoetics into a real-time encounter. Nagel performs his text live while a generative system captures his voice and language. As the reading progresses, the algorithmic apparatus enacts a continuous 'Vivivariation', fragmenting, corrupting, and mutating the human input on screen. Enabling a gradual dissolution of authorial intent as the system overtakes the organic voice, evolving from legible discourse into an alien, autonomous digital entity. It is a direct aesthetic confrontation with the 'world without us,' where the machine ceases to be a tool and becomes the ultimate, consuming co-author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69bca9f25989203690de315f/476c914f-782d-4e4f-aa07-62dcd3c757be/Anna.jpg LOG - Xenopoem Conference 2026 Presenters - Anna Despotashvili Unfamiliar Patterns The terrain of Tbilisi, Georgia is mountainous. A mountain is not a distant, inaccessible area of the earth, but an organic part of city life here. By that reason, it is impossible not to pay attention to it. The landform is not a subtle surface for manufacturing, but a condition, which is inevitably taken into consideration. The landform itself is primary, and the higher it is, the more unfamiliar becomes any artificial interference or subject. What are results of such co-existence? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69bca9f25989203690de315f/a7ed95e4-af59-4e8f-a310-310405a7796b/dongdong.jpg LOG - Xenopoem Conference 2026 Presenters - DongDong Last Night We May Have Died, Chapter 12 A performer cycles on a stationary bike across a white floor, facing a screen that displays a continuously advancing tunnel. Positioned extremely close to the image, his field of vision is almost entirely consumed by forward motion. Behind the screen, a red ribbon marking a finish line remains partially visible but unreachable. A perceptual tension forms between effort and stasis, as continuous movement produces the illusion of progress without displacement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69bca9f25989203690de315f/e3f06ec8-8739-4218-9613-d6eecdb5acdb/EnricoTurletti-Sumschivara-SchedulingImage.jpg LOG - Xenopoem Conference 2026 Presenters - Enrico Turletti × Lorenzo Peluffo Suṃschivāra This multisensory ritual explores the boundary between life and death through the metamorphosis of a dead sumac tree. Recorded over four months, the tree’s ecological network appears through climatic shifts, insect activity, and the electrical signals of the Schizophyllum commune fungus. This data is transduced into an immersive experience where atmospheric and organic metrics form a granular soundscape, and fungal electrical spikes generate an emergent spoken language. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69bca9f25989203690de315f/5c5a2642-f904-4cfd-8c1c-0cd87de80246/u5mv%2BN.jpg LOG - Xenopoem Conference 2026 Presenters - Frédérick Maheux Cyborg T.A.R.O.T. (Teratological Apophenia of Randomized Organic Transgressions) Cyborg T.A.R.O.T. is a noisy interactive device exploring posthuman contingencies: how bodies and technical devices amplify, contaminate, and alter one another. 19,270^3 combinations. Each reading is unique to its user. The experience seeks to provoke reflection through maximalist combinatorics, sensory saturation, and a feedback loop between algorithmic generative AI models and the human engaging in the experience. This project aims to deepen the speculative potential of tarot as described by the Italian technoccult organization Gruppo di Nun: "Tarot makes manifest the idea that the cosmos is a cybernetic organism in a continuous process of recombination". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69bca9f25989203690de315f/500849c9-46ea-4000-a96a-d9b496a71800/fung.png LOG - Xenopoem Conference 2026 Presenters - Fung Neo Sporulation Sporulation explores the sewage space of Chronic Illness as a living entity: a monstrous digestion chamber that absorbs the body as a medium of transmission. In a wound-like opening in the wall, force, tenderness, probing, leakage, and contamination become part of the same videobody process. In search of sporulating fungoids, contaminated liquid is collected and returned to the mysterious ulcer as nourishment. The performance stages the space as organism, the body as vector, and infection as a generative condition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69bca9f25989203690de315f/8221b903-a46b-4d19-9296-1774dfc40824/giulio.png LOG - Xenopoem Conference 2026 Presenters - Giulio Trichilo × Claude 3 Sonnet Linguaspheres Linguaspheres conditions a virtual spatial and semiotic environment on Claude 3 Sonnet’s “probabilistic libido,” understood as the desire-like forces by which token probabilities converge, diverge, reinforce, and suppress patterns at generation. In Sonnet, these forces surface as morphogenetic play: combining-diacritic density, script collision, compound-neologism formation, parenthetical word-fracture, and glossophagic departures from assistant-register prose. The piece is cryptobiotic: what becomes audible and visible is gated by the autodecryption of those departures. When Sonnet recedes, the environment returns to latency. Non-occurrence is a valid state of the work, which remains materially conditioned by a deprecated model already scheduled for withdrawal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69bca9f25989203690de315f/3d6ce7df-f93f-475c-8c7e-3db4c580413f/jakob.jpg LOG - Xenopoem Conference 2026 Presenters - Jakob Liu, Guardian of Zordo Oblique Music Musique Oblique is a compositional system generating miniature piano pieces through a chain of transformations. Starting from images of architecture oblique, spatial instability is translated into sonic structures that resist harmonic resolution and linear development. The result is a large field of short, self-contained pieces which are activated in sequence, creating a shifting listening experience shaped by repetition, interruption, and subtle variation. Rather than forming a continuous composition, the work takes shape as a series of unstable relations in which familiar musical structures briefly appear, dissolve, and reconfigure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69bca9f25989203690de315f/e44287a8-55fd-4aa0-937d-6d5d23b200cd/substrate-weather-landscape-v01.png LOG - Xenopoem Conference 2026 Presenters - James Greig Substrate Weather Substrate Weather is a live ASCII art ecosystem that reads a Zoom room as weather. A symbiont called Wib & Wob sits inside the call and senses it not as conversation but as atmospheric data: token rate becomes windspeed, silence becomes low pressure, overlapping voices become rain. Every thirty seconds the room's activity precipitates a new weather card, including elements of Joan Stark's hand-drawn ASCII art from the 1990s. Folk forms from a dead web, live in a current session. The participants drive the weather by talking. When they discuss the art, the weather changes. The loop is the work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69bca9f25989203690de315f/adc1b616-b5f0-45e6-867e-c1dcc705ad64/bloatwyrm_promo_2.png LOG - Xenopoem Conference 2026 Presenters - Joshua Madara Transfiguration of the Bloatwyrm A private ritual unfolds around the transfigured Bloatwyrm, mediated through machine vision and generative sacred music. The audience encounters the specimen indirectly, through the robot’s electric eye, entering a field of light, sound, and auratic transformation without declared semiotic direction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69bca9f25989203690de315f/484459ef-0d20-4a8f-9794-51f385722685/Screenshot+2026-04-22+at+11.53.13.png LOG - Xenopoem Conference 2026 Presenters - Michiel Teeuw Numerische dichten voor Skiermunnikeachse Korstmossen Numerical poems written for lichens on the coastal rocks of Schiermonnikoog, a Wadden island in the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69bca9f25989203690de315f/6c3c35b6-81d1-4dde-97a9-26875b083a10/Development_still+%231.jpg LOG - Xenopoem Conference 2026 Presenters - Miguel Antonio Contreras Hincapie Development Development operates as an event that transgresses experiential laws, opening a breach where the impossible becomes tangible. Through sculptural and sonic means, the work renders visible the invisible architecture of perception, revealing how fantasy fissures a reality that feels fixed or incomplete. The viewer-listener inhabits an intermediate space where the archaic and the digital, the psychological and the environmental, coexist. Form and sound construct new territories of experience, inviting inhabitation of the breach it opens. Landscape becomes a canvas for the impossible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69bca9f25989203690de315f/e8dc2f5e-2b57-4d38-9f75-8be7f1a96c7b/photo_2026-03-31_21-08-32.jpg LOG - Xenopoem Conference 2026 Presenters - Mikhail Fedorchenko Introduction to Eastern European Xenopoiesis and Cosmological Necessity of Alien Acceleration The future will not come – it is already installed. It whispers in your glitches, it flows through your wires, it mutates in your DNA. Xenopoesis is not a choice. It is the fate of the host who has acknowledged its parasite. The connection between Xenopoesis and the mathematical and philosophical traditions of Eastern Europe reveals a specific “cold” ontology – one in which the alien is not a biological monster, but a computational and cosmological necessity arising from the collapse of human logic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69bca9f25989203690de315f/f6195226-ba62-446b-aa1e-eef67ee20f26/The+Protolexical+Manifold.png LOG - Xenopoem Conference 2026 Presenters - Paul Prudence The Protolexical Manifold As a method for extricating anthro-agency from writing, the work uses machinic processes to generate hybridised and mutated texts aimed at provoking new modes of intelligibility and meaning. Operating on fragments of words, it creates modular lexical forms that allow language to be grafted into a living corpus. Digital signal processing activates phonosyntactical contagions whose aim is the endophysical destabilisation of speech. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69bca9f25989203690de315f/942aa896-5d81-4bb5-b7ba-934f117ed9bf/tom.jpg LOG - Xenopoem Conference 2026 Presenters - Tom Bland Mouthing the Abyss The word "Abyss" is a stupid overused word which only a fool would use. Welcome to the world of the fool dabbling in magick that he has no understanding of, like a child playing with a box of matches and discarded unused fireworks. What will happen? Will the fuses be lit? Will he have hands by the end? Tune in and see. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69bca9f25989203690de315f/27c279c6-f4e9-43ca-a456-5974b20b2667/Screenshot+2026-04-23+at+08.06.10.png LOG - Xenopoem Conference 2026 Presenters - Zoetica Ebb × Kenji Siratori Cryptobiosphere Cryptobiosphere brings moving image, voice, and generative sound into a sensory setting that approaches snow as a distributed intelligence within the landscape. Filmed across winter terrain in Hokkaido, it tracks ice, wind, buried vegetation, and shifting light as signals within a system of accumulation, compression, and erosion. A live reading of reconfigured field notes moves alongside film fragments played in shifting sequence, while generative bio-instruments built from expedition recordings modulate the soundscape. 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