Other-Thoughts

Other-Thoughts An ecological poem.

Text and audio written and recorded by Nathaniel Stern. Video produced from an AI attempting to freestyle based on a library of hundreds of images of Stern’s artworks.

“Is thought exclusively human?

Only inasmuch as my own thoughts are exclusively my own - and they are most certainly not.

Other-thoughts and ideas and arguments preceded what I think, and these changed me, my thoughts, my ideas.

These other-thoughts were themselves not completely original, were birthed, transformed, and amplified by other-things, both human and nonhuman: artists and artworks, writers and writing, books and the internet and the various pages therein, the earth, the sky, that blue, this light, a microphone, an image, a video, AI art, machine learnings, playful forms, NFTs, the blockchain…

Each of these bodies is a force on thought … A force of thought. A thought in the act.

A thinking-with.”