Tag: ai

Warren Sack sheds some psychosocial light on readings, like Jill Walker's, of the uncanny.

Natalie Jeremijenko asserts that machine speech should re-awaken us to "the peculiar structure of participation that we take for granted."

Simon Penny adds object-context to the talking machines of Natalie Jeremijenko's essay.

An autobiographical reflection by Warren Sack, prompted by two particular questions.

Phoebe Sengers praises the optimistic, self-aware conversation mapped by Warren Sack and First Person.

Timothy Luke reviews Nicholas Negroponte and takes a second look at 'digital subjectivity.'

Theories of performance, training, and psychology explain simulation - or do they? - in the third section of First Person.

Whether CTPs should walk on three legs or two; how the robotic artwork Petit Mal is "interpretationally plastic;" what cultural assumptions we build into machines: just some of the response-topics here.

The tenuous dynamics of Phoebe Senger's split story lead Lucy Suchman to ponder "methods and madness" in the metaphors we live by.

As alternatives to agency-obsession, "critical technical practices" that connect art and technology are front and center in the work of Michael Mateas.