Reading Time: 3 minutes In the early stages of algorithmic creative writing, Christopher Strachey‘s love letter generator, developed in the 1950s using the first general-purpose electronic computer Ferranti Mark 1, stands as a pioneering effort. This early endeavour marked the genesis of a transformative journey that has unfolded through subsequent decades, shaping the landscape of creative expression in the… Read more »
Reading Time: 3 minutes What forms will literature and creative writing take ‘after AI’? And what will happen to the book? Will it survive as a medium? Or, like the Sony Walkman and Nokia mobile phone before it, will the printed codex move into obsolete retro-mode, having been replaced by functional iterations of itself in different states of mutation? … Read more »
Reading Time: 4 minutes Is a still image generated by artificial intelligence a photograph, a snapshot of what the AI tool ‘sees’ online, or is it something else entirely? Can the copyright of a film script drafted by AI be owned by the human who prompted it? Will graphic artists and creative writers soon find their labour is no… Read more »
Reading Time: 6 minutes Like many writers, I don’t have a background in technology or computer science. I have a keen interest in writing for new technologies and formats but no formal training in that area. I’m not even particularly technologically minded. When I worked as a writer in the videogames industry, a coder once said to me in… Read more »
Reading Time: 9 minutes In the current participatory media culture, the development of digital media ecologies has inevitably changed how people experience their surroundings. Digital devices have become extensions of the human body, working as a medium to perceive and replicate reality (Yoh, 2001). Jaron Lanier coined the term “virtual reality” and pioneered its early development. Now, people can… Read more »
Reading Time: 8 minutes Children’s literature has always been a genre curious to experiment and play with media. Just think of pop-up-books and how the Alice in Wonderland adaptation Alice for the iPad (2010) by Atomic Antelope was one of the first apps to explore the features of the iPad. Since the introduction of the iPad in 2010, several… Read more »
Reading Time: 13 minutes Weronika Lewandowska and Agnieszka Przybyszewska in conversation: on creating poetry in VR “You are not supposed to call it a subject, but an avatar. There’s no reality being portrayed, no setting, but a simulation!” That is what Polish poets from the Rozdzielczość Chleba group, experimenting with new technologies, proclaimed. Imagine, then, that instead of reading… Read more »
Reading Time: 5 minutes 2020 and 2021 have left all of us (except, perhaps, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos) living with more uncertainty and vulnerability than we have allowed ourselves to admit previously. Like many, I have the very strong sense that a veil has been lifted, and we are in the midst of a series of societal reckonings… Read more »
Reading Time: 5 minutes This article was previously published as a blog post on Bristol & Bath’s Creative R&D Amplified Publishing pathfinder website. Home of rebels and revolutionaries, Shelby x Studios is an online platform to connect with other people who want to create a world with community care at its core. By imagining the world without binaries and… Read more »
Reading Time: 8 minutes Walking through a city without direction and following its sounds, may uncover unknown territories of urban experience. Without a concrete navigational strategy, the listening trail might be more productive than a planned urban journey from A to B, when it comes to reconnecting with the city more intimately, heightened in a migratory context. Such a… Read more »