Exploring 'Being Human' through a Computer Generated Novel Workshop

The  'Creative Posthumanism' project explores creative expressions of critical posthumanism in Hampshire and the West Midlands. It aims to establish a network of thinkers and creatives in these areas who are working towards similar goals, and to explore definitions of posthumanism in arts practice. This event is also sponsored by the Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities (SIAH). SIAH supports, promotes and develops arts and humanities led-research in order to expand the scale of what we can achieve. SIAH will enable scholars to use the critical, creative and theoretical approaches of the Arts and Humanities to lead on large and ambitious projects.

Creative Posthumanism

This collaborative workshop invites you to contribute to the creation and critical discussion of a mashup-style computer generated novel.

This collaborative workshop invites you to explore what it means to be human by contributing to the creation and critical discussion of a mashup-style computer generated novel.Computer generated literature connects back to experimental literary practices in Dada and Oulipo, as well as to early AI language research. This has shaped the current landscape of creative text generation, or, computer generated text which does not serve a practical purpose. It is text which has been made for expression, enjoyment, playful experimentation, to convey points, and to represent concepts.This workshop will focus on the generated novel as an emerging form of creative text generation which has the potential to complicate the role of the author and machine. Participants will get a taste of this complication by selecting and preparing found texts which they feel resonate with the theme ‘being human’. Everyone’s selected text will be combined and computationally processed together to produce, tweak, and curate a 50,000 word generated novel which will be used to stimulate discussion during the workshop. The generated novels will be submitted to the annual National Novel Generation Month (NaNoGenMo) challenge, with all the participants listed as collaborating authors.No prior programming knowledge required.<a href="https://vimeo.com/477247893" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Link</a> to workshop lecture video and <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1424wNVYW7eHvzZVIF4f3ImBPPuTAdBDA/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">link</a> to workshop preparation instructions.About the Hosts<a href="https://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/at1e18" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Lesia Tkacz</a> is a PhD candidate at the University of Southampton, researching auto-generated novels. Dr Noriko Suzuki-Bosco is an artist and researcher based at Winchester School of Art. She is responsible for the <a href="https://libraryofreclaimedbooks.weebly.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Library of Re-Claimed Books</a> project.

This event is organised by 'Being Human as Praxis' researchers at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, and is taking place as part of the Human Worlds Festival, 12th - 22th November 2020.Please contact the event organisers directly if you have any questions regarding the event you are booking.Follow #HumanWorlds on social media to stay up-to-date with the latest news.

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