Deforming Gertrude Stein: A scholarly book in progress

Supplement: What's Behind the Door? Large Language Models in Humanities Experimental Methods

Why use Large Language Models in experimental modes to investigate Gertrude Stein's poetics one hundred and ten years after the publication of her work?
This work approaches LLMs as "an experimental artefact" (Pasquilini 77) joins the work of a number of humanities scholars and fine artists who are co-creating with LLMs in order to engage with them critically.

 
Pasquinelli, Matteo. “From Algorithmic Thinking to Thinking Machines: Four Theses on the Position of Artificial Intelligence in the History of Technoscience.” Beyond Quantity, edited by Andreas Sudmann et al., transcript Verlag, 2023, pp. 75–86. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839467664-005.

This page has paths:

  1. Deformance as a critical-creative research method Monique Tschofen
  2. Introduction: Monique Tschofen

Contents of this path:

  1. What's Behind the Door? Generative AI tools used to make this work
  2. What's behind the door? Text-to-image generation
  3. What's behind the door? Text-to-video and text-to-audio generation
  4. What's Behind the Door? Creative Writing Coach (ChatGPT-4) responds to Gertrude Stein's poem "A Substance in a Cushion"
  5. Digital Editions as Deformance: Why Scalar? (inc)