Baubo

2025

Baubo is a poem that questions and reflects on the language we inhabit. It asks whether our way of relating to all living things has to do with an articulated use of language that perpetuates systems of oppression, a sick language. It seems contradictory to play with AI to create this video poem that ends with an invocation to the cathartic glow of the wild, but in reality it’s a question. Can AI open paths to otherness and safeguard the human? Or will it continue to perpetuate a language based on systems of oppression? Will this disembodied intelligence expose the language that articulates the human?

AI Context

Artificial intelligence has been used to create images based on the visual metaphors of visual artist Mercedes Bautista. The sound composition and poetic creation, however, were not produced by artificial intelligence—only the images that make up the video were.

Mercedes Bautista

Mexico

Bio

Graduate in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. Director of the creative space El Corazón de la Tribu. Director of the Chilam Báalam Poet House. Visual artist and poet. She has received three consecutive PECDA scholarships and has held international group and solo exhibitions. Her poetry has been published in anthologies and literary magazines.