Remix the Page
Remix the Page
Exhibits

Creative writing, made social.

A social, tactile experience for playing with language.

LiteraryDJ invites visitors to remix texts, uncover connections, and make something new together in museums, libraries, universities, festivals, and cultural spaces.

From Two Writers to a Line on the Wall

One visit to the Markov Monostich station, from the crate to the wall.

A visitor composing a line with the DJ controller
Pull two writers from a crate of record sleeves.

Slide across to see the visitor journey.

Two Ways to Host

Every LiteraryDJ event is an exhibit of work its visitors make on the spot. A pop-up is a Flash Exhibit, there and gone in a day or a weekend. An installation is a Full Exhibit, which stays long enough for the work to build up.

Flash Exhibit

Pop-Up

A Flash Exhibit is a one-day or weekend pop-up, often built around a featured author, collection, or theme.

Full Exhibit

Installation

A Full Exhibit stays long enough for visitors to return and for their work to build up. Its content and physical form are shaped with the host.

Stations

Each station runs on the LiteraryDJ kiosk.

  1. A visitor playing Quantum Word Clouds with the DJ controller

    Quantum Word Clouds

    Two poems are entangled, then measured. The cloud of their words collapses into a new poem, which visitors can print and take with them.

  2. The Markov Monostich kiosk, DJ controller and projected wall

    Markov Monostich

    Visitors remix two writers' vocabularies into one-line poems and place them on a shared projected wall. Every line stays there for the run, and phones can see the whole wall in AR.

  3. Word Warz

    Two players build a poem from the same source text against the clock, one with classical computing and one with quantum computing, then compare the results.

Venues

Shaped with the people who host them, around their space, audience, and collections.

Where It's Been

A few of the places LiteraryDJ has set up its stations.

  1. 2026Henson WeekUniversity of MarylandPop-Up
  2. 2026NextNOW FestClarice Smith Performing Arts CenterPop-Up
  3. 2026Maryland DayUniversity of MarylandPop-Up
  4. 2025NextNOW FestClarice Smith Performing Arts CenterPop-Up
  5. 2025Q3 Initiative QreateCenter for Quantum Networks and the UN ITUPop-Up
  6. 2025World Quantum DayUniversity of MarylandPop-Up
The projected wall of visitors' lines beside the kiosk screen and DJ controller.
A visitor at the DJ controller at an outdoor LiteraryDJ table, with a crowd behind.
A hand on the jog wheel of the DJ controller.
A visitor composing a line at the kiosk, with the DJ controller in front of them.
Visitors at a LiteraryDJ station in an exhibition space.
A visitor holding up a phone to see the wall in AR.
Two visitors at a LiteraryDJ table in a library lobby, one with a camera.
The DJ controller on the table beside a rack of postcards.
A projected LiteraryDJ word cloud.
Two visitors at a LiteraryDJ table, facing the kiosk screen.
A visitor choosing writers on the Markov Monostich screen.
A smiling child at the DJ controller at an outdoor LiteraryDJ table.
A visitor holding up a phone to a projected wall of lines.
A host leaning over the table of controllers, keycaps and postcards.
A LiteraryDJ kiosk showing a selection of source text.
A visitor holding up a phone to a projected wall of lines

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