Centre for Creative Technologies’ masterclass series: Miss-communication – Joanna Walsh

Centre for Creative Technologies’ masterclass series

Miss-communication – Joanna Walsh

Joanna Walsh will present her Markievicz-award-winning miss-communication.ie, the first generative text project to be supported by the Irish Arts Council.

Miss-Communication.ie is a work of two halves: an AI chatbot trained on Constance Markievicz’s prison letters and interviews with 20th century Dublin women collected by Máirín Johnston in her 1988 book Dublin Belles, plus a choose-your-own-critical-theory adventure essay investigating language, autonomy, creativity, and gender identity. Joanna Walsh has both programmed the AI and written the essay, but is she the author of either ‘work’?

After a short break, Joanna will lead a workshop using Twine, a simple, free digital narrative tool, to play with the possibilities of digital writing discussed during the first part of the session. This workshop is aimed at everyone who writes–no specialist digital literacy required.

It’s essential that participants bring a laptop, and download the free programme, Twine, from https://twinery.org, before the session. (It is possible to use Twine direct on any web browser but some of the online functions differ and we’ll be working from the downloaded version). They should also bring a short text that they would like to explore, de- and reconstruct. This text can be in any genre, fiction or nonfiction, written by the participant or by someone else. As an optional extra, they can also bring one or more digital images they might like to incorporate.

Places for the masterclass are limited to 25, so please register using Eventbrite here.