The death of an author - writing a novella with AI
Fri
9
Jun
Friday 9 June, 2023at 12:15 - 13:00
Zoom
Stephen Marche is a Canadian essayist and novelist who has been experimenting with AI since 2017. In this FrAIday talk Marche will be in conversation with curator Sarah Cook to discuss his creative process of using AI to write The Death of an Author a groundbreaking, suspenseful experiment in the meta world of man meets machine.
Stephen Marche is the author of half a dozen books, including The Next Civil War, The Unmade Bed: The Messy Truth About Men and Women in the Twenty-First Century (2016) and The Hunger of the Wolf (2015). He has written opinion pieces and essays for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, The Walrus and many others. He was been working on AI since 2017 and has published the first AI-generated novel reviewed in The New York Times, Death of an Author.
Sarah Cook is Guest Professor in Art & AI with UmArts in partnership with Umeå School of Architecture and Bildmuseet. She is Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Glasgow.