We already knew it was bad, but it's actually worse

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/01/1084189/making-an-image-with-generative-ai-uses-as-much-energy-as-charging-your-phone

#AI #ecology #environment

CFP: ELO Unconference: Access Works.
Dec. 1 deadline
online Jan 18-20
https://dtc-wsuv.org/projects/access-works-conference/
#eliterature

Because everyone is now talking about #AI, here's what I have to say! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Bp5CPoEtM -- joining Keanan Joyner and Josh Bloom in this Letters and Science event at UC Berkeley!

Would you look at this!? Part I of "Geosemantics: Earthly Memories and Inhuman Becomings in the Global South" is out on ASAPJ!! https://asapjournal.com/tag/geosemantics/

What a great issue edited by Azucena Castro and Estefi Bournot <3 Check it out!

Can't wait for part II (featuring yours truly!)

@oaperez No conozco esa obra! voy a chequear, suena genial! graciasssssss

Qué obritas cortas de teatro utilizan en sus cursos que sean un éxito garantizado entre sus estudiantes de español? estoy tratando de cambiar un poco las cosas en mi syllabus de intro a literary analysis y ya me aburrí con todo! #spanish #lit #academia #syllabus

@JustinCarinci It's impossible to know what to do! I am not cut out for this

So now that I opened a Bluesky account, does it mean I get to delete this one? Can my heart handle anymore abandoned social media platforms??? Here goes nothing>> @alexsaum.bsky.social

The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature
Winner: "Neverending Stories: The Popular Emergence of Digital Fiction" by Lyle Skains
Runner up: "Opera aperta: Italian Electronic Literature from the 1960s to the Present" by Emanuela Patti
Honorable mention: “Girl Online” by Joanna Walsh

The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award.
Stephanie Strickland

The Maverick Award
Deena Larsen

@elikaortega ay, como nunca estoy en redes ya jamás se me perdió esto! xoxoxooxoxoxoo

What a perfect reason to return to posting things here! The ELO is back!

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The Electronic Literature Organization's (ELO) annual conference and media arts festival, “Overcoming Divides: Electronic Literature and Social Change,” will take place in Coimbra, Portugal, July 12-15, 2023, at the São Francisco Convent, the Exploratório-Centro Ciência Viva de Coimbra, and the Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente. Presenting an academic program of panels, round tables, and workshops, as well as an artistic program of exhibitions and performances, ELO 2023 showcases the diversity of contemporary digital literary practices, as well as theoretical reflections on algorithmic society, culture and art. 200 researchers and artists from over forty countries across all continents will gather for ELO 2023.

Keynote addresses: Lori Emerson (University of Colorado at Boulder), Jussi Parikka (Aarhus University), Amira Hanafi (Carolina Coastal University)

More info @ https://ucpages.uc.pt/en/events/overcoming-divides-electronic-literature-and-social-change/

@eliterature

@elikaortega I have one and NEVER stand

A new study on #planetary 🌍 boundaries takes safety and justice (protecting #vulnerable populations) into account.

Rockström et al. (2023) suggest that we have crossed seven of eight planetary boundaries in terms of both #safety and #justice. ⚖️

The twin #biodiversity and #climate #crises are absolutely a matter of justice. Rich individuals and countries can buy more time and safety. But many of our planetary neighbours cannot.

Explainer 🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01749-9

OA 🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06083-8

You could even use Hinton's "realization" as a hook and then pivot to covering the work of and talking with:

Ruha Benjamin
Safiya Noble
Cathy O'Niel
Sasha Costanza-Chock
Brandeis Marshall
Deb Raji
Abeba Birhane
Meredith Whittaker
Karla Ortiz

and of course Timnit Gebru and Meg Mitchell, who were fired by Google over our paper discussing the dangers of large language models (aka, to Hinton "AI").

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To the media: Wow is it a bad look that one old white guy comes out belatedly saying "AI is bad!" and you fawn all over him, while failing to connect with the scholars (mostly not white men) who have been documenting the actual problems with "AI".

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@motorhueso fantástico!! jamás paso por redes ya y se me había escapado este texto tan maravilloso. te cito inmediatamente en lo que ahora mismo estoy escribiendo ;)

@alexsaum Recuerdo que lo leí en su momento, es un texto muy bonito :)

Yo escribí este, que próximamente saldrá en un libro: http://www.motorhueso.net/wuwei/calcular-lo-incalculable/

Read about punch cards, plotters, light pens, kinetic machines and a lot more in my new article about Early Computer Art in the 50's & 60's!

https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/computer-art-50s-and-60s

#art #generativeart #computerart

Buscando textos sobre #ai y #literatura y #elit me he encontrado con este mío de 2017 (revista Matador) en el que ya entonces hablaba de robots que escribían cartas de amor. Cómo pasa el tiempo, y cómo no pasa también.

http://www.alexsaum.com/el-robot-que-escribia-cartas-de-amor/

Querides, el monográfico del Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies que Álvaro Llosa y una servidora hemos editado sobre los futuros digitales de las Españas posibles YA ESTÁ DISPONIBLE!!!! VIVAAAAAAAAA la vida, la tecnología y el amor #elit #dh #spain #spanish

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjsc20/24/1?nav=tocList