Text-based AI - Computer Arts Society

Nothing artificial here by María Cecilia Reyes (Xeh)

I will be participating at the talk “Text-based AI - Computer Arts Society”.

SPEAKER

Geoff Davis, AI Researcher at Creative Computing Institute UAL UK. Computer art in Computer Arts Archive.

SYNOPSIS

Join us for an insightful event featuring discussions on various aspects of AI text generation, its ethical considerations, and applications in both education and the arts. Geoff Davis, editor of the AI Creative Writing Anthology and AI researcher at UAL, will provide an overview of text generation and delve into the ethical implications, and also will cover the use of text generation for computer coding.

Shu Wan and Maria Reyes will each present on the educational aspects of AI text generation, highlighting its potential in essay writing, annotating, and its use by both students and lecturers.

Tivon Rice and Ray LC, talented mixed media artists, will showcase their AI text-based art, while the renowned AI text and poetry artist, Sasha Stiles, will be discussed in relation to her celebrated book, ‘Technelegy.’ Additionally, Mark Webster's innovative 'Hypertype' art, which utilizes Sentiment Analysis for text generation, will be featured.

The event will culminate in an interactive questions and answers session, allowing attendees to engage with the speakers. The entire talk will be recorded for future reference.

"But I'm not him": My first published poem co-created with AI

A couple of years ago I started experimenting with AI to interpret and generate scenarios from and for my poems. Today, one of these poems created in collaboration with an AI system -different from chatGPT- has been published in this very cool anthology edited by Geoff Davis. Each literary creation is followed by some questions and thoughts of the authors and their process.

Published by LEOPARD PRINT: https://lnkd.in/dUCt3N5H

See the book on Amazon.co.uk: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BZQKV92T

See the book on Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/AI-Creative-Writing-Anthology-Computer-ebook/dp/B0BZQKV92T

See the book on GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123894053-ai-creative-writing-anthology

AI Creative Writing Anthology is a ground-breaking and controversial showcase of cutting-edge writing techniques. From unexpected short stories to surreal poetry, these co-created works explore a range of themes using text generation systems. Writers use ChatGPT, GPT-4, and free open-source systems. Artists use hand-coded programs. With an introduction from Geoff Davis, an artificial intelligence researcher, and generative artist with 40 years of experience, this anthology is a treasure trove of insider knowledge from a true pioneer in the field.

In this book, you will: ✓ Get inspired and write faster with AI-powered text generation based on simple prompts, ✓ Rediscover the joy of writing with this innovative and fun approach to creativity, ✓ Learn from the pros with extensive notes, reviews and comments from 20 authors, ✓ Explore the fascinating history and evolution of creative text generation, from its humble beginnings to its groundbreaking potential today, ✓ Find out about Large Language Models.

Contributors:  Albena Baeva, Richard A. Carter, Dana Dason, Geoff Davis, Nick Fletcher, Brad Gallagher, Iqra Iqbal, Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Ray LC, Simon Lewis, David Link, Joshua Hussey, Timothy Miller, Dustin Paddock, Fania Raczinski, Maria Cecilia Reyes, Tivon Rice,  Brian Reffin Smith, Klaus Spiess, Shu Wan, and Corinne Whitaker.
Never be stuck with writer’s block again. A roadmap for unleashing your creativity, this book will help you save time and increase your output. Whether you’re looking to explore new creative frontiers or to seek inspiration, AI Creative Writing Anthology is the ultimate anthology on the future of writing. ★ Join the revolution today and unlock your full writing potential. ★

Same Different @ International Poetry Film Festival of Thuringia

We are very happy to announce that our poetry shortfilm “Same Different” has been selected for the Special Program World Mirror of Poetry of the International Poetry Film Festival of Thuringia (Germany). The shortfilm will be available online during the days of the festival from May 20th to 31st.

““In our program „World mirror of poetry“ we are travelling around the globe in leaps and contradictions to capture a glimpse of the state of the world and its poetry.””

— Poetry Film Festival of Thuringia

Same Different at 10th International Video Poetry Festival

Same Different a poetry shortfilm produced by Nesindano Namises and me during our time at Akademie Schloss Solitude, was selected at the 10th International Video Poetry Festival.

The shortfilm features Nesindano “Ques” Namises, Namibian poet and performer, performing her poem “Same Different” in english and Khoekhoegowab.

My role was just to stand behind the camera and see Nesindano in her all-encompasing power reciting her poem in the forest while the movement of the sun thorugh the trees was changing her siluete. I cannot express with words how lucky I was to be there.

The International Video Poetry Festival in Athens attempts to create an open public space for the creative expression of all tendencies and streams of contemporary visual poetry. The IVPF has been around since 2012. It is one of the largest international platform for video poetry. Every year, it offers poets, film directors, video artists and festival makers from all over the world a platform for creative exchange, brainstorming and meeting with a broad audience. With poetry readings, live performances, concerts, retrospectives, exhibitions, performances, workshops and lectures present in various sections the diversity of the genre of video poetry and spoken word music.

Looking Far - a poetical conversation

RITUAL OF SACRED REST

[20:21, 11/11/2021] Xeh:
Let’s stop and disconnect from the slaughterhouse,
let’s climb the mountain and look at the universe,
let’s do our ritual to video-call our ancestors,
and let’s record it [with the omniscient eye]
so in -a not-too-distant- future,
we will tele-rest in the virtual cavern,
and we will watch from the dark
the technological essence of our days.
We will create a ritual for the sacred rest,
for the renewal of the spirit,
and put it on VR,
as an archaeological piece of our times.
[20:21, 11/11/2021] Roxy:
I propose you, dear travel companion,
that we make an offering.
Dressed as the human-bat,
with his immense headdress that reaches the sky,
we will return to our mother-earth a part of us that dies month by month,
nails, hair, skin, blood ...
… And so,
before dying forever in this body,
we die and be reborn together with her,
with her permission and her gifts.
[20:22, 11/11/2021] Xeh:
Aligned with the star map,
we will fly to the infra and the supra world
to be able to see...
What illuminates the light of our devices?
How will we look far ... beyond our screens?
How will we rest in the midst of artificial energy to revive vital energy?

Self-exploited and dazzled by excess
of productivity,
of money,
of followers,
of objects,
no hope of retiring at 40,
or buying a house in the country side.
We satisfy ourselves with the infinite scroll,
and the empaths of Tik-Tok.
Breaks are questions without answers,
they’re “active-breaks”,
to then return to the hustle,
without regrets.
1 recess equals 1 guilt,
1 nap equals 5.
Digital nomadism,
telecommuting,
stunts to separate work from pleasure,
nothing is pleasure,
because everything is work.
Boss just texted,
It’s 9PM... on a thursday.
Work on the screen,
Rest on the screen,
Family on the screen,
Masturbate on the screen,
Spend money on the screen
Order lunch on the screen,
Find love on the screen.
I will make the market hate me:
I will close all my social networks,
I will not produce content,
I will not apply for that job,
I’ll run barefoot in the middle of the forest
towards the forbidden valley,
the one where 4G does not reach.
We live tired,
and the only antidote to tiredness
is rest.

When I was a child,
if I would complain of boredom,
my mother and grandmother would tell me:
“Look far”,
sit on the rocking chair,
watch people go by in the afternoon,
look without looking,
meditate.
On field trips,
exploring the sandy towns of the Caribbean,
you can see the people sitting in the patios,
or in the parks,
lying in a hammock,
“looking far”.

Time? What is the time?
6 in the afternoon, the time of the mosquito.
Those from the mountains,
where the progress of this nation is,
they accuse us, the ones of our region,
of being lazy,
can you imagine - the audacity!?!

They don’t understand that our philosophy
of cogerla suave (taking it soft),
it is our resistance to exploitation,
to a capital-centric vision of existence,
to grow old without having enjoyed life.
“Wooork, woooork, woooork”
with a very long ooo,
those are the famous words of the unnameable,
hey “cachaco” (mountains guy)
...
...
...
cógela suave!

WHAT ACTION OF LOVE AND JUSTICE CAN BE HIGHER THAN TO ENJOY OURSELVES IN THE REST, TO ALLOW US TO ENJOY THE RESULTS OF A COMMITTED AND ARDUOUS WORK?

The Human-Bat Cycle

It is the ruling planet of Taurus and Libra,
sensual signs that aim for love and justice.
In one of its deepest qualities,
Taurus understands that the contemplation and enjoyment of the simple, valuable and profound,
is the fruit of patience and commitment.

How did I forget to tell you my dear Xeh,
about the incredible and swampy, complementary opposite of Taurus,
in this transformation of the next eclipses?
The dark, demonic and angelic sign of Scorpio.
The Scorpio-Taurus axis represents Dark and Light,
Taurus is pleasure, Scorpio is pain and death.
In this cycle, beliefs will die.
The darkness together with an offering, are requisites for rebirth.

The human-bat,
example of death and introspection from the dark,
gaze in the cave to see the shadows.
As the allegory of the cave tells us,
we integrate the shadow that will allow us to change the skin,
to take the next step…
to renew our ways of resting,
to mutate,
to transform,
and evolve.

We are going through the deepest and most critical moment of transformation of humanity as we have known it for 2021 years.
The stars tell us that we are closing a stage identified as the age of Pisces. In this era, humans have experienced the world from a mental, emotional, spiritual and economic structure that responds to lack, fear and the need for acceptance.
From astro numerology, evolutionary astrology and humanistic astrology, it is predicted that in 2022 a cycle of creating new scales of values will begin, based on the eclipses of the Taurus-Scorpio nodal axes.

Taurus: resources, vulnerability, security.
What are our essential foundations of life?
How do we enjoy life? How do we live a dignified and pleasant life?
Taurus and Scorpio are the signs of life and death,
of sensoriality and manipulation, of courage and power.

What is the relationship with our body? Have we disconnected from it?
Can contemplation be the new/old way of returning to the present, to the body?

Taurus not only rests to regain strength and continue working,
but it enjoys that moment,
The great verb of its ruler Venus is: enjoy!
Venus, planet of love and expression,
represents our personal values and what we passionately love.

TELE-REST

Let’s stop time,
let’s read the stars,
let’s do a new ritual to promise ourselves
do not mistreat the eyes.
And one day,
when the time of breaks and rituals
will have completely disappeared,
we will put on the mask of virtual reality,
to convince ourselves for a second
that place still exists...
that we can still “look far”.

The presence of rest,
the telepresence of rest,
the presence of tele-rest,
the telepresence of tele-rest.
Rest on Tele-vision,
do the ritual on Tele-vision,
be on Tele-vision,
Will we tele-be?
I believe my dear Roxy,
that the famous metaverse will never be enough,
we haven’t even glimpsed the multiverse yet,
which is still one,
the multiverse in which we all are...
... working in break time.

We rest on the screen
moving the fingers up and down,
viewing the content in small dimensions,
also when we throw ourselves in the hammock.

[11:11, 11/11/2021] Roxy:
Silicon is a metalloid chemical element,
atomic number 14. It is located in group 14 of the periodic table of elements.
Symbol = SI.
It is the second most abundant element in the earth’s crust after oxygen.

[11:11, 11/11/2021] Roxy:
Silicon is the # 1 element of smartphones.
Resting,
with my eyes glued to the smartphone,
I will try to go back to nature with my mind,
while the mental autopilot discovers new memes.
Will it be possible to tele-immerse ourselves in a resting moment-space?
… To climb the holy mountain
… To look at the sky,
… To do our rituals?
Let’s go to the sacred territory together,
let’s sit on the stones,
let’s remember what it was like to not carry a device,
and let’s have an experience...
… a real one.

The Up-Rooted

While in Schloss Solitude I started to develop a documentary project based on intimate conversations with fellow artists in the Solitude forest. We talked about art, life, but also about this condition that artists and people in this generation share: the nomadic life.

The eternal moving makes us wonder about roots and interconnections, about the concept of home, family and safety net. During this process I wrote this piece, inspired by a phrase that Olivia told me from a poem about having roots in the air.

The documentary is meant to be also a map, tracing artists’ personal spots in the forest.

This is what connected the uprooted, or better, the up-rooted.

There are those who grow and no matter how much they spread, they keep their roots well anchored in the earth. There are those who grow inwards, and to the outside they only show a handful of leaves. There are those who grow up with weak roots that break with the first storm. And there are those like me, we stretch like a rhizome in the air. The longer this aerial plant grows, the more it meets and intertwines with other plants with acrobatic roots. They are plants whose seed flew away, fell on a piece of fertile ground, and began to grow upwards and to the sides, until their roots also detached from the ground, and began to grow above the clouds. Delicate electromagnetic connections here and there feed the aerial plant, like wireless roots picking up nutritious signals.

The uprooted are a strange species of acrobatic beings, in constant mutation and expansion, they cut with autonomous pain the heavy roots that unite them to a single group of sage, to exchange the vital sage with other uprooted ones. At the end of their days, their blood is not of a unique type, but a river whose flow collects hundreds of rivers of diverse providences. The uprooted barter for books, bedding, clothes, food, language, memories. Sometimes they even swap skin to feel what the other uprooted one feels. They meet in the air and at the blowing of the first wind they move, sometimes scattered, sometimes together, sometimes in pairs, sometimes as a family, often alone. The uprooted can share the same wireless roots, and there is no need for another uprooted to ask for it, the uprooted share everything because they own nothing. Nothing belongs to them because they own the world. Their growth is anarchy in its purest form, there are no limits for the expansion of the uprooted, for the interconnections they generate, for the time of their lives, or for the time of their death. The lightness of their existence allows them to be everywhere, to learn everything, and at the same time, to be absent, to be lost, to become a cloud and to let the sunlight pass through them.

It can happen that ground plants grow so tall as to be able to intermix with the uprooted, the aerial plants celebrate this fact and often hug the branches of the plants with earth roots for decades or centuries, but there is always a time when both are unlinked by a slight change in the direction of the wind. Sometimes that entanglement becomes so tight that the aerial plant can generate a wireless root connected to the ground plant to return at times or to feed itself when it is time of drought on the other side of the globe. Other times they spend so much time entwined that the ground plant spreads its youngest branches around the aerial plant and convinces itself that it is becoming an aerial plant. Until the root pulls it towards the ground with such resistance that the tension ends up breaking the young branches and dismantling the tangle of leaves created between the aerial and the terrestrial plants.

The uprooted are not beings without roots, they are beings with roots that extend into the air. Their rhizomatic roots create an energy network that connects to the electromagnetism of the globe at specific points for nutrition and communication. Their celestial acrobatics create another kind of soil in the sky, one that draws the tips of the ground plants upward, toward the sun, toward the stars, toward the movement of the wind. They transmit the information of the world to terrestrial plants, they bring news for growth, they mix pollen, sage, colors. The uprooted are always ready to seed, collect, exchange, and depart, without ever abandoning.

Original spanish version: www.xehismo.wordpress.com

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