Love it or loathe it, you can’t have failed to notice how artificial Intelligence has shaken up the world of artists and writers over the last year.
For our November meeting, we’ve invited Lesia Tkacz, PhD researcher at Southampton University, to talk about the latest advances in AI and what they mean for writers.
What Has AI Ever Done For Us? A Dip Into Generative Literature
Creators of generative literature have been working on the fringes of technology and literature to playfully push and probe at the boundaries of language, form, and reading. We’ll explore some of these weird, wacky, and even haunting works and consider how we as writers want our practice to develop in response to AI technology and hype. After all, it’s not the first time in history that we’re faced with a wild, emerging technology that’s provoking creative industries and disciplines!
Lesia Tkacz is a researcher focusing on creative AI, with a specialization in text generation. Her interests stem from a background in Fine Art, Literature, Linguistics, and Computer Science in a sociotechnical context. Lesia is currently part of interdisciplinary projects where she studies playful processes and tools, and is writing up her dissertation which explores the impact of paratext on computer generated novels.
Our guest speaker is interactive fiction author Joey Jones.
Lies Under Ice is a forthcoming interactive science fiction novel… but what even is an interactive novel? Let’s explore the niche world of interactive fiction, where text meets games. How can 200,000 words still be a novella? How do you keep track of the plot when it can branch in different directions? Can one person write a million endings? Does anyone make a living this way?
The meeting will be Tuesday November 14th, at the Tower Arts Centre. Come along from 7pm. Talks start at 7:30pm. Members free, non-member tickets £10, students £2 (no advance booking, payment on entry).
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