Digital Day

Participants will learn to program their own Markov chain predictive text machines, then work together to interpret them creatively.

Ross Goodwin is not a poet. Artist, Creative Technologist for AMI at Google Arts & Culture, hacker, gonzo data scientist, writer of writers. Graduate of NYU ITP & MIT; former Obama administration ghostwriter. Employs machine learning, natural language processing, other computational tools to realize new forms & interfaces for written language. From Sunspring (the first film created from a computer-generated screenplay) with Oscar Sharp, to word.camera (the first instant poetry-writing camera), to 1 the Road (the first novel written with a car), Goodwin’s creative AI experiments have earned international acclaim.

Oscar Sharp is a BAFTA-nominated filmmaker, called «a huge talent, masterly with tone and style» by The New Yorker.

Team:
Oscar Sharp & Ross Goodwin

Room:
NN

Requirements:
- Laptop
- Participants should come having selected digital sources of plain text (articles, books, lyrics, screenplays, etc.)
- Participants who can play instruments are encouraged to bring them.
- Participants who can paint or draw are encouraged to bring their materials.
- No programming experience required.

Language:
English