Alinta Krauth, An E-poet: Where Nature and Humans come Together

Abstract

Dr Alinta Krauth, e-poet and visual artist, was interviewed by Dr Yolanda De Gregorio Robledo on July 2023, at University of Bergen, Norway. Dr Krauth grew up in Australia and lived there until a few years ago when she moved to Norway, her life in her country, as pointed out in the interview, configured her work and the themes of her works. She describes her work as an intersection of the arts and the sciences where she combines environmental and animal behavioral research with artistic imagination. She focuses on technological methods such as coding algorithms and machine learning, but all these processes are guided by a sense of beauty. The interview shows how Krauth designs interactive experiences not just for humans but also for animals using technology to create positive multispecies interactions. Krauth is a multifaced creator handling most aspects of her projects and only occasionally outsourcing tasks beyond her skill set. Her work embodies a “more-than-human” perspective, considering symbiotic relationships across species and one important aspect of her work is the use of AI as a tool to foster interspecies understanding, as for example in her project The (m)Otherhood of Meep where with the AI help, she translates flying fox vocalizations into poetry.