Hyperlinked Poetry: A Generative Writing System is a web-based interactive artwork that explores poetry as a spatial, networked, and reconfigurable structure rather than a fixed linear text. The project is grounded in the tradition of Net Art and hypertext literature, extending early network-based artistic practices into the context of contemporary AI-assisted authorship. The work investigates how meaning emerges through fragmentation, recomposition, and navigation. A poem is not presented as a completed artifact, but as a constellation of textual nodes—hyperlinked, movable, and temporally unstable. Users initiate the work by entering a short textual prompt. An AI language model then generates a poem based on thematic analysis. This generated text becomes raw material rather than a final output. Through direct interaction—dragging, rearranging, and re-linking textual blocks—the viewer actively reconstructs the poem. The interface functions as a poetic space, where writing becomes an embodied action and reading becomes spatial navigation. Visual backgrounds respond dynamically to textual rearrangements, creating a feedback loop between language, interface, and perception. The project situates itself within theoretical discourses on hypertext (Ted Nelson), Net Art, and post linear literature, while also engaging contemporary debates on AI and authorship. Rather than asking whether AI can write poetry, Hyperlinked Poetry: A Generative Writing Systemexamines how human agency persists through selection, reorganization, and interpretive control. Authorship is understood as a hybrid condition—distributed between algorithmic generation and human decision-making. The artwork has no final or definitive state. Each interaction produces a temporary configuration, emphasizing process over completion and positioning poetry as an open system within a networked environment.
