Let me show you how art and culture drive technological development.
Let me show you how art and culture drive technological development.
So the Electronic Literature Organisation just got a freshly designed version of their website, built using blogging software so it’ll be far more frequently updated, and with a really nice showcase of electronic literature.
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When I studied literature we mostly read the classics. Great literature, the canon. But that’s not necessarily what most people actually read. What if instead of comparing AI-generated literature to the literary canon, we tried comparing it to super popular and commercial forms of literature instead? Like the folkebøker that […]
Synthetic media is a current popular term for AI-generated videos, texts and images. I think the first use was only a few years ago in 2018, but I couldn’t find an overview of its use so thought I’d cobble one together here, mostly because I like Elena Pilipets and her […]
OpenAI plans to charge $20,000 (USD) a month for an AI agent that can do “PhD level research”. Maybe all the PhDs and postdocs recently fired by DOGE should band together and sell their services as “AI agents” – apparently some people will pay more for robots than people. At […]
This is my original Norwegian draft of an essay published in the Danish foreign policy magazine Udenrigs today as part of a special issue on AI and foreign policy. I argue that AI is influencing the way we tell stories, and more seriously, that there is a risk of this […]
In 2022 I learned about FAIR data, the movement to make research data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reproducible. One of UiB’s brilliant research librarians, Jenny Ostrup, patiently helped me make the dataset from the Machine Vision project FAIR in 2022 – I wrote a little bit about that in my […]
Thanks to everyone who came to the triple book talk of three recent books on machine vision by James Dobson, Jussi Parikka and me, and thanks for excellent questions. Several people have emailed to asked if we recorded it, and yes we did! Here you go! James and Jussi’s books […]
jim
I was wondering when exactly does it become a website if it looks, acts and feels like a blog…even made “using blogging software”? or am I being overly pedantic (or perhaps overly loyal to blogging).
Jill
Oh, surely blog is a subcategory of website? Like, everything’s a website (well, if it has a URL it is) and then you can have different kinds of websites, like blogs, search engines, journals, home pages and so on.
noah
The old ELO site also featured news prominently on the front page, and that news was ordered reverse-chronologically, but that news feed was built using some custom script written before blogging software was common. And then there were the same links to information about the organization, the Electronic Literature Directory, and so on. Was the old page a blog as well?
Jill
I suppose in a kind of way – but what I think is done particularly well about the redesign is that it oth offers easy access to a showcase of electronic literature and offers frequently updated news. The more prominent date stamps and archives make it easier for readers to see that this is a site that’s likely to be worth returning to.
Elin
I like the new site:-)
Jose Angel
Maybe one should write (or perhaps it’s already written) the paper “What. if anything, is a blog”, following those biology papers on the contrast between folk categories and real taxonomic differences – “What, if anything, is a rabbit”, “What, if anything, is a zebra…”