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The True Digital Poiesis Project

 

 

 

A Draft Visualization of the TDP User Interface Concept

At each of its stages, this project involves the efficient management of Actions, Actors, and Modalities and availing ourselves of the capacity of generative AI to help us compose or “style” meaning by providing syntactically bounded “thickly descriptive” (i.e., data-rich) answers to the Questions: who? what? when? where? how? and why?, with these answers being informed by and informing the range of our senses from the visual to the audial to the haptic. The broader ongoing research question that presents itself alongside our more specific pedagogical and course development goals and that provides a broader conceptual framework for the AI+Languages Discussion Group events below—is whether such ongoing and balanced multisensory attentiveness to all six of these questions might be a way, grounded in Languages and Humanities Studies, of being “true” in the verbal and transitive sense of the word: “to make level, square, balanced, or concentric: to bring or restore to a desired mechanical accuracy or form” (Merriam Webster).

SONGS AI+Languages Discussion Group Presentations

April 18, 2024, 3:00pm-4:00pm EST:  Mike Benveniste (San Jose State University; Lead Researcher for the Fletcher Lab at Project Narrative at Ohio State University), “Improbability: Narrative Thinking and the Limitations of Artificial Intelligence.” Click for Recording

October 26, 2023, 5:00pm-6:15pm: Becca Segovia (Royalty Now Studios), “Royalty Now: Bringing the Past Back to Life.” Click for Recording

October 17, 2023, 2:00pm-2:50pm: UF AI Days 2023 Panel: “AI in Humanities Research and Teaching.” Panelists: Sid Dobrin, “Generative AI and the Humanities”; Will Hasty, “For True Digital Poiesis in the Cultivation of Language Practices” presentation outline; Diego Alvarado, “AI Tools for the Non-Specialist.” Reitz Union Ballroom.

October 10, 2023, 3:00pm-4:15 pm: Angelos Barmpoutis (Digital Worlds Institute) and Hyo Kang (Digital World Institute), “Virtual Reality at the Digital Worlds Institute: Research on 3D artifacts and 3D spaces.” Click for Recording

Research funded by the University of Florida Informatics Institute.