{"product_id":"my-life-as-an-artificial-mark-amerika-9781503631700","title":"My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence: A Speculative Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIs it possible that creative artists have more in common with machines than we might think?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmploying an improvisational call-and-response writing performance coauthored with an AI text generator, remix artist and scholar Mark Amerika, interrogates how his own \"psychic automatism\" is itself a nonhuman function strategically designed to reveal the poetic attributes of programmable worlds still unimagined. Through a series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum, Amerika critically reflects on whether creativity itself is, at root, a nonhuman information behavior that emerges from an onto-operational presence experiencing an otherworldly aesthetic sensibility. Amerika engages with his cyberpunk imagination to simultaneously embrace and problematize human-machine collaborations. He draws from jazz performance, beatnik poetry, Buddhist thought, and surrealism to suggest that his own artificial creative intelligence operates as a finely tuned remix engine continuously training itself to build on the history of avant-garde art and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlayful and provocative, \u003ci\u003eMy Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence\u003c\/i\u003e flips the script on contemporary AI research that attempts to build systems that perform more like humans, instead self-reflexively making a very nontraditional argument about AI's impact on society and its relationship to the cosmos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Amerika\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503631702\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503631700\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/10\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Mark Amerika","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054356164863,"sku":"9781503631700","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a7e89503-562f-4bdb-a5f3-60d269038774.jpg?v=1685029485","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/my-life-as-an-artificial-mark-amerika-9781503631700","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}