Join Margaret Rhee and Allison Parrish in an open discussion on the possibilities of technology and writing. This 90-minute session will discuss topics such as 21st century hypertext, the uses and misuses of A.I., the new frontiers for language and narrative, how to win a grant from our future robot overlords. Moderated by Adjunct Assistant Professor Quincy Scott Jones.
Margaret Rhee is a poet, scholar and new media artist. Her books include Love, Robot, and the forthcoming Machine Dreams: Race, Robots, and the Asian American Body and Poetry Machines. Her new media artworks include Afro-Asian Poetic Pantry and The Kimchi Poetry Machine. Her awards include a 2018 Elgin Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the 2019 Best Book Award in Poetry by the Asian American Studies Association.
Allison Parrish is a computer programmer, poet, and game designer whose teaching and practice address the unusual phenomena that blossom when language and computers meet. She is an Assistant Arts Professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. She is the co-creator of the board game Rewordable (Clarkson Potter, 2017) and author of several books, including @Everyword: The Book (Instar, 2015) and Articulations (Counterpath, 2018). Her poetry has recently appeared in BOMB Magazine and Strange Horizons.
