Gerd Stern was a poet and multimedia artist. He was born in 1928 in the German-French border of Saargebiet and moved to San Francisco in the late 1940s. By 1953, Stern was publishing his own poetry, which led him to write for Playboy magazine. By the late 1960s, Stern was a counterculture artist producing kinetic art that involved light shows and surround sound, and, as a founder of the artistic company USCO, produced the Timothy Leary Psychedelic Theater. Stern also formed the Intermedia Systems Corporation with colleague Michael Callahan, which produced multimedia art internationally including projects for the Venezuelan government and the National Endowment for the Arts. In this interview, he discusses reflections on art and poetry, USCO, partnership with Michael Callahan and the Intermedia Systems Corporation, and the counterculture of the 1960s.