Reading N. Katherine Hayles’s Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational from 2021.

Is it postprint? Sure. Is it postbook? mmmm... not so much perhaps.

For some postprint examples that are using computational media to also push toward being postbook, see:

Liquid books: http://liquidbooks.pbwiki.com/

Living Books About Life: http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/

Photomediations: An Open Book: http://photomediationsopenbook.net/

Combinatorial Books: Gathering Flowers: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/ecological-rewriting/

More: https://linktr.ee/maskedmedia1

#books #book #computers
#theory #philosophy #literature #publishing #print #digital #digitalhumanities

The Computer Arts Society 2025 programme continues

Discussion: AI, Creativity and Curation

Panellists: Mario Klingemann & Kalen Iwamoto; Host & Presenter: Geoff Davis

18:00 BST, Tuesday, 17 June 2025

This event is via Zoom only.

What happens when #AI not only generates #art selecting works that reflect established #aesthetics but also invents entirely new genres? Are we seeing novel collaborations, or challenges to #human artistic authenticity? Can a #machine be an #artist The next step may be AI that creates and curates personalised art, delivering memetic content for casual audiences, while using the same processes to create historically-informed works for #galleries or #collectors.

Whether you're an artist, #curator collector, or simply curious, this Zoom-only session offers critical perspectives on integrating AI into #creative practice—while preserving the human values still central to art. At least, for now.

Book: https://computerartssociety170625.eventbrite.co.uk/

Just came across 'My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence — an interview with Mark Amerika', founding publisher of electronic book review, by Will Luers. It offers a compelling exploration of the speculative persona of the artist as ACI. Part media theory, part autofiction, it frames AI as 'the prosthesis "I am"', probing the creative limits and possibilities of writing, publishing and programming through digital poetics, glitch aesthetics and remix culture.

If you’re curious about where Creativity (capital C) comes from, or how machine learning intersects with experimental, speculative, and theoretical fictions across the human–nonhuman spectrum, this one’s for you. Published by electronic book review, an Open Humanities Press journal — you can read it here:

https://electronicbookreview.com/essay/my-life-as-an-artificial-creative-intelligence-an-interview-with-mark-amerika/

#theory
#philosophy
#literature
#publishing
#art
#ai
#ArtificialIntelligence
#performances

New event from everyone is a girl:

Philosopher Maid Cafe

3 hours of philosophy-as-drag delivered by London’s hottest and smartest.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eiag-at-ethereal-maison-gallery-philosopher-maid-cafe-tickets-1362810054559?aff=erelexpmlt

Sunday, May 25 · 2 - 5pm GMT+1
Location
Ethereal Maison Gallery
62 Roman Road London E2 0PG

‘Join us at ethereal maison for a theoretically challenging hospitality experience. your waiter may demonstrate a dialectic slap, ask how rhizomatically you would like the sugar in your coffee, or spontaneously begin to attempt to evade the problem of embodiment. we are taking “girl theory” all the way. any theoretician can become a product, since theoreticians have always been, pettily, trying to make something new. enjoy the precarity of geniuses with cake, drinks, and the art of the gallery.’

anna vershkova as albert camus - nas maryukhta as slavoj zizek - daniel fruman as sigmund freud - ella bernhardt as simone de beauvoir - willem as theodor adorno ...

#philosophy #theory #art #artists #drag #performances

4/4 At this point, it's tempting to come up with a spreadable phrase like 'universities are sooo over these days'. But that would be inaccurate. It'd also be unfair. Much of this would be impossible without higher education. Many of those involved are doing or have done MAs and PhDs as well as undergraduate degrees. They’re engaging with — and building on — the work academics continue to produce from within the university. They’re still very much part of the ecology of theory.

Still, for what are pretty obvious reasons — job cuts, precarity, casualisation, managerialism, excessive workloads, pressure from students and their parents for more instrumental and employability-focused courses, a general shift away from theory to more conservative intellectual formations and frameworks — university spaces today often feel a lot less alive than what’s happening here above the shop.

Was introduced to this licensing flow chart yesterday by Clara Bougon and can safely say it’s one of the best things ever. Clear, funny, politically sharp—and genuinely useful if you’re figuring out how to share your work and which licence to use.

📄 https://clarabougon.ovh/pdfs/2024_05_22_poster_licence_en_A3.pdf

#humanities #digitalhumanities #copyright #rights #share #licence #design

This event tomorrow looks enticing: Alteregoism, organized by everyone is a girl

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/apex-x-eiag-alteregoism-tickets-1343782703239

It’s a multimedia-filled night at Bread and Butter Shoreditch on the theme of ALTEREGOISM, with a panel, #performances, #artwork and #music

What are the consequences of 'weirdness' entering the mainstream? How can the fluidity of #identity online be used to increase play, connection, and experimentation rather than induce anxiety? As #socialmedia reaches a critical point, how is our artistic usage of the online space shifting?

The night will begin with a panel featuring Shumon Basar, Nella Piatek, Marisa Müsing, Zaiba Jabbar and Bailey Davis.

There'll be: an open mic jam session led by MC Cassianne

A durational performance from #actors Daniel Fruman, Liza Demina, Henry Spychalski, Sally Hernandez, Alex Warren and Aruanna Levin.

#DJing by Excursions' residents Jack Eden and Timur and DARCIE.

Additionally, there'll be digital #artwork from a range of #artists