Katherine Parrish

  • “I’m a little more than that.”

    when I started to learn about LLMs and how they worked, I immediately thought of this scene in Caprica (2010), one of the prequels to Battlestar Gallactica, where the “more than an avatar,” Zoe Greystone, explains to her father how his daughter created her. I’m fond of stories about these emergent/aggregate AIs, where the whole…

  • Eunoia revisited

    Eunoia, the tour de force of Christian Bök, has been a subject of both praise and derision since its first publication in 2001. One thing is clear- it has garnered a great deal of interest and attention, blowing up sales statistics for poetry in Canada. I love the book. I love reading it aloud. I…

  • ragin’, totally ragin

    In the two years since they’ve been made known and available, Large Language Model AI’s such as ChatGPT have been met with derision, outrage and existential fear by a wide range and number of artists, and not without reason. But many of the cited reasons have been very similar to those given in the arguments…

  • playing with code

    I am not a proficient coder. My dad taught me Basic when I was 11, which was great fun. I didn’t do a lot with it, but it gave me a foundational understanding of how to communicate with computers- the syntax, the grammar, maybe? My next coding experience was also my deepest. In 1998, I…

  • Intervals and Provocations: Electronic Literature Organization (un)linked conference begins!

    Sometimes the stars really do align. Just as I’m getting back into thinking, writing, teaching about creative and critical uses of digital technologies, the Electronic Literature Organization hosts a free (!) virtual conference about just that! The ELO, founded in 1999, has been supporting, and creating spaces for “the investigtation of literature produced for the…