For EMERGENCE, Kate Vass speaks with Zeroichi Arakawa about Executed Poetry, verificational reading, and the relationship between code, language, and execution. Their conversation explores the artwork as an arrangement of code, machine, reader, and recorded traces.

In this interview, Wen New Atelier discusses its practice at the intersection of art, language, and technology—from generative literature to speculative electronic objects. The conversation also explores Computational Poetry, co-curated by Zeroichi Arakawa, and his idea of code execution as a new voice for poetry.

Arakawa reflects on Computational Poetry, the 2025 exhibition she co-curated and participated in at NEORT++ Gallery in Tokyo. Through works by five artist groups, he explores how programming languages can function as poetic materials and expand our understanding of language, execution, and authorship.

In this essay, Zeroichi Arakawa introduces “verificational reading,” an approach to code that traces what it actually does rather than interpreting what it might mean.

EMERGENCE is conceived as a living exhibition and traces the evolution of complexity from simple computational rules to collective intelligence. Released over six weeks, each chapter reveals new artists and conversations exploring how interaction gives rise to pattern, organism, and society.

Computational Poetry explores the relationship between computers and poetry through works that treat code not simply as a tool, but as a language and material for thought.

BYOD² is an open-format exhibition centered on data, inviting anyone to upload digital artworks or bring display devices that become part of an evolving installation.

The 1st Japan Generative Art Award Winning Works Exhibition presented ten works selected from 195 submissions received from ten countries.

Visual Poetry was an online group exhibition curated by Atelier and presented on fxhash, exploring the intersection of generative art, typography, language, signs, and symbols.

At art stage OSAKA, Zeroichi Arakawa presented Digital Native Art as part of Proof of X in the fair’s New Media section. Bringing together artists working with blockchain and smart contracts, the exhibition explored these technologies as emerging artistic media.

At Crypto Art Fes 2022 in Tokyo, Zeroichi Arakawa presented Sakutaro Poems NFTs. The project transforms 39 poems by Sakutaro Hagiwara into owner-responsive, fully on-chain NFTs.