{"672744":{"#nid":"672744","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Poetry@Tech Talk: Ars Autopoetica: On Authorial Intelligence, Generative Literature, and the Future of Language","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EJoin \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/poetry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EPoetry@Tech\u003C\/a\u003E Thursday, Feb. 22 from 11 a.m. to noon in the Library\u2019s Scholars Event Network Theater, located on the first floor of Price Gilbert, for a discussion with author Sasha Stiles. Lunch will be provided. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThis event, Ars Autopoetica: On Authorial Intelligence, Generative Literature and the Future of Language, touches on a number of hot-button current topics discussed in her chapter of \u003Cem\u003EChoreomata,\u003C\/em\u003E published in 2023. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIt \u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Econsiders the arrival of a major societal software update, AI-powered poetry, within the historical context of linguistic invention and automated writing. It will also explore the ways poetic language, among humanity\u2019s earliest and most enduring inventions, acts as a reliable data storage system for knowledge and meaning enabled by meter, rhythm, rhyme, assonance, alliteration and other ingenious devices.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAbout Sasha Stiles\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESasha Stiles, a Harvard and Oxford graduate, is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, language artist, and AI researcher. Based In New York, she explores the intersection of text and technology and is known for her pioneering experiments with generative literature and blockchain poetics. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIn late 2021, Stiles released her debut book, \u003Cem\u003ETechnelegy\u003C\/em\u003E, co-authored by a custom AI-powered text generator. The book probes how technology has made us more human over time and explores both the exhilaration and danger of our intimate relationship with the digital. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EPraised by Ray Kurzweil, among others, \u003Cem\u003ETechnelegy\u003C\/em\u003E serves as a touchstone for Stiles\u0027 ongoing investigations of the posthuman. A co-founder of theVERSEverse, a web3 gallery and writers\u0027 collective, Stiles showcases her multidimensional, transdisciplinary pieces in physical and virtual exhibitions worldwide. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EHer vision for the future of poetry goes beyond the literary and artistic to encompass the role that linguistic innovations have always played in the development of human consciousness and the augmentation of human imagination.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EJoin Poetry@Tech Thursday, Feb. 22 from 11 a.m. to noon in the Library\u2019s Scholars Event Network Theater, located on the first floor of Price Gilbert, for a discussion with author Sasha Stiles. 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