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Let me show you how art and culture drive technological development.
I updated my list of email narratives this morning, with some help from Nick (thanks!). All the commercial efforts at using stories told in email for marketing have given way to sexy webcams, and I don’t know of any new commercial attempts, apart from spam. I haven’t seen much new email storytelling at all, really – do let me know if you know of something!
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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 […]
Finally I can share what I’ve been working on! I absolutely loved writing this book, taking the time to dig deep into histories, ideas and theories that I think really help understand how machine vision technologies like facial recognition and image generation are impacting us today. I wanted the book […]
Jason
Matt Beaumont’s e-mail epistolary novel “e” should fit in nicely with your list (published in 2000).
Jill
Ah, except it’s a printed novel, which is different – I’m particularly interested in narratives that are *sent out as emails*, “written in the network”.
Though I like regular epistolary novels too, and have put “e” into my amazon shopping cart 🙂
Other print email novels include
There are others I’ve forgotten now, I’m sure, and there’ll be plenty I don’t know about, so if you have any titles let me know – I’m thinking of writing somethign about this stuff 🙂
Jason
Ah, the ìe-mail narratives in printî sub-title in your list threw me off 😉 ìeî actually isnít too shabby, all things consideredÖ
Another non-networked but printed novel: _Chaser: A Novel in E-Mails_ by Michael J. Rosen (havenít read this one myself)
Itís a shame there are so many in the ìgoneî listÖ
mcb
I’m having trouble with the blue company link… is it just me?
Jill
No, Meredith, it’s not just you, the archives are gone, sadly… Perhaps because it’s going to be published as a book with Kind of Blue? I hate how things disappear!
(yes, and I am the same person who defends my right to delete stuff at will 😉
Thanks, Jason for the new novel! Will add em all.