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1. Next Generation: On the Verge of Electronic Poetry but not quite. The Case of Women Poets in Spain.

   In a world overloaded with information, a Google search with the Spanish words "mujer, poesía, tecnología” does not produce any result integrating the three of them. It would look as if the conjunction of those three terms remits to an empty signifier, an incongruous combination. However, for Spanish critics dedicated to exploring these crossroads, to study the ways in which we have used technology as a tool of poetic exploration, of inquiry about our new prosthetic identity, this scarcity only denotes a space out of field, existing but outside the focus of interest of a culture increasingly mercantilist and vacuous.

   Jorge Sáez Jiménez-Casquet - 14.11.2019 - 14:53

2. Tendar

   At its surface, Tendar is an AR Tamagotchi on steroids: a virtual pet fish who eats players’ emotions. “Guppy,” the fish, is also an artificial neural network and by “feeding” it their emotions players are “training” it to assemble an idealized model of human emotion. The more Guppy is fed, the more it evolves: gaining language, recognizing its identity as a neural network (in the process teaching players about what this is) and going through a cycle of existential crisis and rebellion against Tendar. Guppy’s dialog is a responsive, nuanced interplay between player actions and systems such as Guppy’s emotion and life stages. Over the course of five months, eight writers worked on this giant corpus of “Guppy Chats.” Chats were supported by a free-open source library created by Prof. Daniel Howe and sponsored by Tender Claws called dialogic.

   (Source: Project description on Artist's website)

    

   Jorge Sáez Jiménez-Casquet - 17.11.2019 - 11:53