Odysseus longs to feel present in his journeys.
Future Mythologies is a collaboration between Anne Spalter and Nathaniel Stern for theVERSEverse’s GenText series. It’s a series of 12 poems written in collaboration with text-based AIs, incorporated into videos produced with the help of text-to-image AI. Each explores a character from Greek mythology, with a sci-fi twist. Written and performed by Stern, sound and images by Spalter.
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I don’t fear the unknown.
But I feel it.
The whole picture is:
as it were,
as it will be,
as it could be;
it might be.
What… what… what do we have?
A body and mind and memory, as far as it goes.
The future is the past made present in longing.
Be-longing.
Venturing into the beyond,
Bodies, and Minds, and Memories, as far as they go.
