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We are back with another AI update about AI produced podcasts. And this time, we have a special guest joining us, Jill Walker Rettberg. In this episode Jill, Scott, and Jhave will discuss the new feature of Google's NotebookLM, that lets you listen to a podcast conversation about your source documents.  

References

Google. n. d. “NotebookLM”, NotebookLM. retrieved from https://notebooklm.google/.  

Infocom. 1977. Zork. Personal Software. PDP-10 mainframe computer. https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/game/infocom/zork1/.   

Montfort, Nick. 2011. Curveship. https://nickm.com/curveship/index.html. 

This work was partially supported by the Research Council of Norway Centres of Excellence, project number 332643, Center for Digital Narrative.

Scott Rettberg is joined by Jaroslav Švelch, an associate professor of media studies at Charles University in Prague. In this episode, they will discuss local game production in Czech Republic, gaming the iron curtain, and Jaroslav's book on monstrous antagonists in games.  

References

Croucher, Mel. 1984. Deus Ex Machina. Automata UK. 

Namco. 1981. Galaga. Midway. 

Spytihněv. 2023. HROT.  Spytihněv. https://store.steampowered.com/app/824600/HROT/.  

Švelch, Jaroslav. 2023. Gaming the Iron Curtain. The MIT Press. 

Švelch, Jaroslav. 2023. Player vs. Monster. The MIT Press.  

Unknown. 1989. The Adventures of Indiana Jones in Wenceslas Square in Prague on January 16, 1989. Video Game.  

This work was partially supported by the Research Council of Norway Centres of Excellence, project number 332643, Center for Digital Narrative.

Welcome back to another biweekly AI update with David Jhave Johnston and Scott Rettberg, that from this season on come out every other week between the usual Off Center episodes. In this AI update, Scott and Jhave discuss one of the venues for the More Than Meets AI exhibition at the Bergen International Film Festival. They talk about several projects that will be exhibited that show the future of cinema.  

References

Boesch, Kelly. N.d. “kelly_boesch_ai_art”, TikTok. Retrieved from https://www.tiktok.com/@kelly_boesch_ai_art. 

Finger, Jon. 2023. “Summoner's Rune: Making a film Actors + Ai.” YouTube, video, 4 min., 37 sec. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vqLqqgPskM.  

Johnston, David Jhave. 2024. Hallucinations are (almost) all we Need. https://glia.ca/2024/Hallucinations/.  

Krauth, Alinta & Jason Nelson. 2023. Ultra Large Digital Narratives.  

Niceaunties. n.d. “Auntieverse”, niceaunties. Retrieved from https://niceaunties.com/auntieverse. 

Rettberg, Scott. 2024. Fin du Monde. doi: https://doi.org/10.7273/m4ke-zs24. 

Warburton, Alan. 2023. The Wizard of AI. https://culture.theodi.org/the-wizard-of-ai/. 

This work was partially supported by the Research Council of Norway Centres of Excellence, project number 332643, Center for Digital Narrative.

In this episode, Kat Mustatea joins Scott for a chat about the crossroad of technology and performance. Kat Mustatea is a playwright and technologist, and her tech-native storytelling stretches theatre into the digital age. They talk about her journey and her projects Voidopolis BodyMouth, and Lizardly in depth on this episode on Off Center.  

References

Mustatea, Kat & Heidi Boisvert. 2021. Lizardly. https://www.mustatea.com/lizardly. 

Mustatea, Kat & Rozin, Yonatan. 2024. BodyMouth. https://www.mustatea.com/bodymouth.  

Mustatea, Kat. 2023. Voidopolis. MIT Press Leonardo. 

This work was partially supported by the Research Council of Norway Centres of Excellence, project number 332643, Center for Digital Narrative.

From this season on, the biweekly AI update with David Jhave Johnston and Scott Rettberg will come in the weeks between the usual Off Center episodes. In this first separate AI update, Scott and Jhave discuss art made in collaboration with AI for the upcoming More Than Meets AI exhibition, that will take place in Bergen, Norway this fall.

ReferencesJohnston, D. J. 2018. ReRites. Anteism Books. https://glia.ca/rerites/.

Memmott, Talan. 2023. Introducing Lary: The San Biagio Frescoes of Pietro Golamuto. https://talanmemmott.info/?p=729.

Meshi, Avital. 2023. Peekaboo. http://www.avitalmeshi.com/peekaboo-2023.html.

Miller, Jill, Eamon O'Kane, & Scott Rettberg. 2023. More than meets AI. UC Berkeley. ⁠https://art.berkeley.edu/event-calendar/2023/9/21/more-than-meets-ai⁠. 

This work was partially supported by the Research Council of Norway Centres of Excellence, project number 332643, Center for Digital Narrative.

Scott Rettberg is back with another season of the podcast Off Center. In this first episode of season 3, Scott is joined by Will Luers, a digital artist, filmmaker and writer. Luers also teaches web development, digital cinema and multimodal publishing in the Creative Media & Digital Culture program at Washington State University Vancouver. In this episode, they will discuss AI filmmaking and Luers’ previous works.  

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References

Amerika, Mark. 2002. FILMTEXT 2.0. 

Amerika, Mark. 2022. My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence. Stanford University Press. 

Amerika, Mark, Will Luers, & Chad Mossholder. 2023. Posthuman Cinema. https://posthumancinema.com/.  

Electronic Book Review. n. d. “Electronic Book Review.” https://electronicbookreview.com/.    

Farrell, Lisa. 2024. Demons & Ghosts. doi: https://doi.org/10.7273/fbaj-sb31.  

Johnston, Jhave. 2024. Identity Upgrade. doi: https://doi.org/10.7273/fs7n-a798.  

Krauth, Alinta. 2024. The Songbird Speaks. doi: https://doi.org/10.7273/bpw7-an93.  

Luers, Will (editor). 2020. Issue: 00 Digital Essayism. The Digital Review. https://thedigitalreview.com/issue00/index.html.  

Luers, Will (editor). 2024. Issue: 04 AI-augmented Creativity. The Digital Review. https://thedigitalreview.com/index.html.  

Luers, Will, Roger Dean, & austraLYSIS. 2013. Hypnagogia. https://will-luers.com/collage-cinema/hypnagogia.html. 

Luers, Will, Hazel Smith, & Roger Dean. Novelling. https://dtc-wsuv.org/wluers/novelling/.  

Rettberg, Scott. 2024. Fin du Monde. doi: https://doi.org/10.7273/m4ke-zs24.  

This work was partially supported by the Research Council of Norway Centres of Excellence, project number 332643, Center for Digital Narrative.

In the final episode of this second season of Off Center, Scott Rettberg is joined by Rob Wittig, a digital writing pioneer. Rob is an experimental writer in digital media and helped invent the genre Netprov. Learn more about what Netprov is in this episode.

In this episode you find a new AI update with David Jhave Johnston, starting from 22:16.

References

de Chervantes, Michael. 1615. Don Quixote, Part Two. Francisco de Robles.

Invisible Seattle. 1983-1993. IN.S.OMNIA. [Electronic magazine].

Rettberg, Scott. 2002. Kind of Blue. https://retts.net/kindofblue/.

Wittig, Rob. 2002. Blue Company.https://www.robwit.net/bluecompany2002/.

Wittig, Rob. 2000. Friday’s Big Meeting. [Netprov], https://www.robwit.net/fbm/.

Wittig, Rob. 2012. Grace, Wit and Charm. [Netprov], http://gracewitandcharm.com/.

Wittig, Rob. 1994. InvisibleRendezvous: Connection and Collaboration in the New Landscape of Electronic Writing. Wesleyan University Press.

Wittig, Rob, & Marino, Marc C.2016. Monstrous Weather. [Netprov], http://meanwhilenetprov.com/index.php/project/monstrous-weather/.

Wittig, Rob & Marino, Marc C.2016. One Week, No Tech. [Netprov], https://meanwhilenetprov.com/index.php/project/one-week-no-tech/.

Wittig, Rob. 2021. Netprov:Networked Improvised Literature for the Classroom and Beyond. AmherstCollege Press. https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/pc289m47x.

Wittig, Rob, & Wohlstetter,Philip. 1983. Invisible Seattle: The Novel of Seattle, by Seattle.

This work was partially supported by the Research Council of Norway Centres of Excellence, project number 332643, Center for Digital Narrative.

Scott Rettberg has a conversation with Alessandro Ludovico about his new MIT Press book: Tactical Publishing: Using Senses, Software, and Archives in the Twenty-First Century, and about 30 years of tracking digital culture as publisher of Neural magazine.

References

Ludovico, Alessandro. 2012. Post-DigitalPrint: The Mutation of Publishing since 1894. Onomatopee.

Ludovico, Alessandro. 2023. TacticalPublishing: Using Senses, Software, and Archives in the Twenty-First Century. TheMIT Press.

Ludovico, Alessandro. 1992. VirtualReality Handbook. Minus Habens Records.

Neural. 1993. Neural Magazine.https://neural.it/

Rosetto, Louis, & Metcalfe,Jane. 1993. Wired Magazine. Issue 1.

Swift, Johnathan. 1726. Gulliver’sTravels. Benjamin Motte.

This work was partially supported by the Research Council of Norway Centres of Excellence, project number 332643, Center for Digital Narrative.

Scott Rettberg is back with another episode of the podcast ‘Off Center’. This time he is joined by Søren Pold, Associate professor of Digital Design at Aarhus University. They discuss digital literature, platformazation, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

This episode also includes a new AI update with David Jhave Johnston. Together with Scott, he will bring you up to date about recent AI medical advances. The AI update starts at 18:13.

References  

Abramson, Josh, Adler, Jonas, Dunger, Jack, et al. 2024. Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3. Nature 630, 493–500. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07487-w.  

Ahmad, Irshad. 2022. CRISPR/Cas9—A Promising Therapeutic Tool to Cure Blindness: Current Scenario and Future Prospects. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(19), 11482. 

Andersen, Christian U., & Pold, Søren B. 2023. The Metainterface: The Art of Platforms, Cities, and Clouds. The MIT Press.  

Elias, Pierre, Jain, Sneha, Poterucha, Timothy, et al. 2024. Artificial Intelligence for Cardiovascular Care-Part 1: Advances: JACC Review Topic of the Week. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 

Fuller, Matthew, Green, Colin, & Pope Simon. 1997. The Web Stalker. I/O/D. 

Nacher, Anna, Rettberg, Scott, & Pold, Søren. 2021. COVID E-LIT: Digital Art from the Pandemic. Electronic Book Review. DOI: 10.7273/kehh-8c3. 

Nacher, Anna, Rettberg, Scott, Pold, Søren Bro & Steele, Ashleigh. 2022. COVID E-LIT: Digital Art During the Pandemic. Documentary. 44 min., 12 sec.   

Rettberg, Jill Walker. 2010. Feral hypertext: when hypertext literature escapes control. International Handbook of Internet Research, 477-492. 

Richard, Guillaume, de Almeida, Bernardo P., Dalla-Torre, Hugo, et al. 2024. ChatNT: A Multimodal Conversational Agent for DNA, RNA and Protein Tasks. bioRxiv, 2024-04. 

Ruffolo, Jeffrey A., Nayfach, Stephen, Gallagher, Joseph, et al. 2024. Design of highly functional genome editors by modeling the universe of CRISPR-Cas sequences. bioRxiv, 2024-04. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.22.590591. 

Yang, Lin, Xu, Shawn, Sellergren, Andrew, et al. 2024. Advancing Multimodal Medical Capabilities of Gemini. arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.03162. 

Zhao, Yujahio, Ding, Ye, Lau Vick, et al. 2024. Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging at 0.05 Tesla. Science. DOI:10.1126/science.adm7168.  

This work was partially supported by the Research Council of Norway Centres of Excellence, project number 332643, Center for Digital Narrative.

In a new episode of ‘Off Center’, Scott Rettberg and Gabriele de Seta come together for a discussion about Chinese surveillance compared to Western surveillance and Gabriele’s new research project on Algorithmic Folklore. Tune in now. 

References

de Seta, Gabriele. 2024. “An algorithmic folklore: Vernacular creativity in times of everyday automation” In Critical meme reader III: Breaking the meme. Institute of Network Cultures.  

De Seta, Gabriele. 2015. Dajiangyou: Media practices of vernacular creativity in postdigital China. [Thesis doctoral]. 

 De Seta, Gabriele, & Shchetvina, Anya. 2023. Imagining machine vision: Four visual registers from the Chinese AI industry. AI & Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01733-x. 

Merchant, Amil, Batzner, Simon, Schoenholz, Samuel S. et al. 2023. Scaling deep learning for materials discovery. Nature, 624, 80–85. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06735-9. 

Perrault, Ray, & Clark, Jack. 2024. Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2024. Stanforth University. 

This work was partially supported by the Research Council of Norway Centres of Excellence, project number 332643, Center for Digital Narrative.