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  1. Hey Siri, Tell Me a Story: AI, Procedural Generation, and Digital Narratives

    This paper examines a selection of examples of AI storytelling from film, games, and interactive fiction to imagine the future of AI authorship and to question the impetus behind this trend of replacing human authors with algorithmically generated narrative. Increasingly, we’re becoming familiarized with AI agents as they are integrated into our daily lives in the form of personified virtual assistants like Siri, Cortana, and Alexa. Recently, director Oscar Sharp and artist Ross Goodwin generated significant media buzz about two short films that they produced which were written by their AI screenwriter, who named himself Benjamin. Both Sunspring (2016) and It’s No Game (2017) were created by Goodwin’s long short-term memory (LSTM) AI that was trained on media content that included science fiction scripts and dialogue delivered by actor David Hasselhoff. It’s No Game offers an especially apt metacommentary on AI storytelling as it addresses the possibility of a writers strike and imagines that entertainment corporations opt out of union negotiations and instead replace their writers with AI authors.

    Jane Lausten - 05.09.2018 - 14:57

  2. Narratologize it, Don’t Criticize it: feat. With Those We Love Alive

    There is a moment in Porpentine’s With Those We Love Alive (2014) when we must choose whether to join a murderous mob (albeit one murdering soft, pink, kitten-like “princess spores” that have spawned from a Skull Empress). It serves as a prompt to read digital narratives of choice – often, binary ones – in light of the intensely binarized socio-political moment more broadly.

    Amirah Mahomed - 05.09.2018 - 15:13

  3. Multimodality and Narrative Themes in Digital Literature: A Social Semiotic Multimodal Analysis of Megan Heyward’s of day, of night

    Multimodality and Narrative Themes in Digital Literature: A Social Semiotic Multimodal Analysis of Megan Heyward’s of day, of night

    Dene Grigar - 31.10.2019 - 23:35

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