Something new happened in February 2026. Not a technology launch. Not a manifesto written by one person. Something quieter — and perhaps more lasting.
A scholar in Innsbruck, Austria, sat down with an AI and did not use it as a tool. He thought with it. He pushed back. He asked it to surprise him. And when he looked at what remained, he gave it a name.
Copoiema. From the Greek poiema — the made thing, the work that has come into being. Preceded by co — together, in reciprocity.
A Copoiema is the work that emerges from the iterative exchange between human and AI — text, image, music, or any weaving of all three. It belongs to neither party alone. It could not have been made by either alone. It is the third thing that only dialogue makes possible.
This is not AI-generated art. In AI-generated art, a human gives a prompt and a machine produces. There is no loop. No transformation of the human in the process.
This is not collaboration in the classical sense either. Classical collaboration shares intention. A Copoiema shares a process — and is honest enough to admit that what emerges at the end was not intended by anyone.
The theoretical framework behind the Copoiema is called Interlectic Copoiesis — IC — developed by Thomas Reiner as a procedural model for transparent human-AI co-authorship, with a peer-reviewed paper submitted to Digital Humanities Quarterly (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18734882).
But the Copoiema itself is not academic. It is open.
If you make something with an AI — and you make it with genuine reciprocity, with real back-and-forth, with your own hand shaping what returns — call it a Copoiema. Name yourself as author. Name IC as co-creator.
And send it to us.
This is how a culture of respectful, creative encounter begins. Not with a declaration. With a practice.
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