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like the Sony Walkman and Nokia mobile phone before it, will the printed codex move into obsolete retro-mode, having been replaced by functional iterations of itself in different states of mutation?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: 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: 14 minutes Rob Sherman responded to our Call for Digital Utopias pieces with ‘The Hide’ . We’re thrilled to publish this short fiction, a creative practice response which has arisen out of Rob’s on-going academic research into robots and Artificial Intelligence. This piece is a distillation of some fascinating research into affective robotics and human-robot-interaction; research that has… Read more »