Authorship, Algorithms and Access in the Digital Commons
A masterclass presented by the Emerging Writers’ Festival & Next Wave
As digital technologies increasingly mediate how we communicate, create and understand the world, how do we as writers respond or rebel with curiosity and criticality? How can art and language resist exploitative systems, expand access, and open up new ways of seeing, sharing and making meaning, particularly in the current climate of distortion and coercion in the digital space? In this half-day masterclass presented in partnership with Next Wave, join artists and writers exploring the creative possibilities of writing in networked culture through experimental, expansive and vital practices.
11am – 12pm
Touchy Texts: the immersion and submersion of queer words | Keynote by James Nguyen
Reflecting on how the public exhibition of a multilingual LBGTQIA+ glossary instigated by Budhi Sudarto and many others can encourage a more vigilant reading of queer literary emergence and suppression.
12pm – 1pm
Agency & The Cloud, a panel with: Rory Gillen, Ximena Jiménez & Tom Sulston
Join a panel of artists, writers, and creative technologists in a discussion surrounding alternative writing tools and technology that decouple writers from extractive corporations and subscription fees.
In the wake of the wholesale theft of creative work used to train generative machine learning models and the increasing surveillance of our digital lives, it has never been more important to maintain our own agency with the digital tools we rely on. But crucially, it has also never been easier to make the switch.
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2.15 – 3.15pm
Generating Access: Alt(er)text
A workshop with Jon Tjhia & Fayen d’Evie – Access Lab and Library
Engage with networked culture through the framing of access, with Access Lab & Library (Jon Tjhia and Fayen d’Evie). Why is alt text a contested space? How can we sustain critical positions in the mediated platforms we use to communicate? And how can practises like image description extend and expand the craft of writing?
Drawing on discourses around agency, authorship and knowledge creation, and through conversation, solo and collaborative practise, undertake a round of exercises that query authorship, speak to position and perspective, and recognise the generative significance of emergent knowledge.
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