Installed 2017–ongoing, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK
“In 2017, I was asked to make a temporary sculpture for London’s Serpentine Galleries Summer Party. My initial intention was to create a spiral of text around the circular pavilion. These models were early explorations of the idea. We collaborated with Google Arts & Culture, who developed a machine-learning algorithm trained on 20 million lines of 19th-century poetry. Each party guest donated a word to the algorithm, which composed a collective poem.”
—Es Devlin