Creative writing w/procedural methods. Assistant Arts Professor at @ITP_NYU, co-creator of @rewordable. I'm on Mastodon: https://xitter.cf/t.co/5X3w69aLlW she/her šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø

Brooklyn, NY
Joined June 2007
It is difficult to get the news from Markov chains yet men die miserably enough I kept a been it and tropics in figures, well else, or
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Last but not least we have @aparrish on the ā€œNonsense Laboratoryā€, a toy/tool getting people to interact with ML in a lighthearted way.
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We are delighted to announce the publication of WEAVING LANGUAGE! Diagrams by Anni Albers & Raoul D’Harcourt. Contributions by Amaranth Borsuk, Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves, Imani Elizabeth Jackson, Allison Parrish, Kit Schluter, Martha Tuttle, and Sarah Zapata.
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"Parrish takes the core desire of contemporary language model research—that is, to create a machine that will generate and understand language in a manner that is indistinguishable from a human’s—and turns it on its head." @AbramovichShira on the work of @aparrish
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hi all, here's the text of my keynote for @iccc_conf! I share paratexts I've made for computer-generated works (intros, afterwords, blurbs), then propose "cistextuality" (to go with Genette's "transtextuality") & apply it to assumptions/methods in AI/ML posts.decontextualize.com/ma…
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thx to the computational creativity folks for inviting me to speak and for arranging such a wonderful friendly and engaging conference!
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Amazing talk by @aparrish on paratexts at @iccc_conf this morning. dare to think carefully about the material affordances of generative systems, and internalize externalities from their messy supply chains
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Roe v Wade is dead. It is no coincidence that we are watching abortion rights fall the same year the most anti-trans/lgbt laws have been passed in history. These are two sides of the same coin in the same fight and the same people are fighting with the same justifications.
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Of course. It is long past the time we need to dismiss the idea that this court operates as an apolitically judiciary. It is a third branch of unelected, life term super-legislators. They don’t need coherent arguments, only enough pretense to justify their opinion—and just barely
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Replying to @kalladomcdowell
@kalladomcdowell @mckenziewark and @aparrish will be ~in conversation~ June 15 in NYC for the east coast launch of Amor Cringe. Dm for addy
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Not only does this way of thinking hurt the philosophical field, but focusing on these sci-fi issues only perpetuates the collective panic that exists around these technologies while neglecting their actual risks. (8/11)
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Teaching Tracery to high school girls today, and thought I'd add a slide of my favorite coders šŸ’– @aparrish, @tduringer,@MituK, and @Lauren_E_Scott (sorry Lauren, I could find I better picture of you but I LOVE THIS ONE TOO MUCH)
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i have a new book out! it's a collection of asemic prose poems, published in an extraordinarily beautiful handmade letterpress edition by @aleatorpress
We have a new release! "Wendit Tnce Inf" is a letterpress volume of computer-generated poetry by @aparrish. Scroll down or click below to learn more. aleator.press/releases/wendi…
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here's what it looks like! it's based on a nanogenmo project of mine from a few years ago (source code here: github.com/aparrish/word-gan…). i'm so pleased with the end result—james made a remarkable physical artifact out of the "manuscript" I gave him (i.e., a zip file of weird pngs)
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