Editorial Design and print

ars electronica, 2025

JKU LINz, austria

THE ARTIFICIAL LITERATURE LABORATORY IS AN ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECT BY EUGÉNIE DESMEDT, PAUL KLOKER, zalka márton, CHRISTINE HAUPT, JONAS MARTSCHIN. thanks to Martina Mara and the Robopsychology Lab, Paul Janisch and Naoki Matsuyama.

Archivo narrow in use by omnibus-type

digital print, metal point, 12x21 cm

The Artificial Literature Laboratory

text by        Eugénie Desmedt

The Artificial Literature Laboratory explores large language models (LLMs) not as services, assistants, or all-knowing agents, but as tools for creative writing. A specially developed interface enables interaction with the LLM through the physical hardware that makes the generative process possible in the first place — inviting visitors to collaboratively write a short text. Instead of the optimization-driven logic that dominates current applications of AI, this installation centers on an experimental interaction process rooted in the traditions of electronic literature, constrained writing, and chance-based poetics. Collaborative writing here is not a simple prompt-response-output routine. It offers visitors the opportunity to explore working with LLMs as a creative tool in a non-commercial way — while critically reflecting on their underlying logic of optimization. The installation engages with the generative logic of LLMs through the act of human writing — and vice versa — inviting reflection on what it truly means to create something new.