Dear Cyborg
AI poetry film

2026
05:17 min

Dear Cyborg intertwines poetry and AI‑generated imagery to explore the entangled histories of computers emerging from the loom and, ultimately, the weaving techniques of insects. The work follows a poetological poem that reflects on the relationship between text and generated image within this framework.

While prompting synthetic self-portraits, a figure began to speak in the artist's mind; her monologue becomes a poem. Verses turn into prompts, prompts into images—a circular process in which word and image continually bring each other into being.

Born from a desire to let poetry and imagery appear together, Ostermann merges writing, seeing, and algorithmic thinking. AI becomes the medium in which language turns into technology and text into textile material. The thread runs from silkworm to loom to computer—a genealogy in which the poem continues as living code.

The poet appears as a cyborg who writes with and through technology. Poetry here becomes an interface between body, system, and image—an organic, breathing network of neural prompts and living code.