Everest Pipkin
Generative poetry, hacked Roombas and endless glass greenhouses: the artist builds machines whose output they cannot predict.
Katie Rose Pipkin constructs machines that can surprise them. They work with generative poetry, artificial intelligence, and videogames to “see the edge of the permissible,” where patterns and meaning break down to become noise. They consider all their work a type of collaboration: their partners, machine or human, help push projects “beyond [their] capacity to predict.”
Computers have always been important to Pipkin. But growing up with their sister in the woods outside Austin, Texas, their parents restricted them to half an hour of daily screen time. This limitation served to foster “a daydreaming place” in Pipkin’s mind.
