Note: These were taken from a course reflection. Question 2 pertains directly to my Futures Project; I’ve included Question 1 for context. How did you understand data and/or coloniality before you started the course? How this understanding changed? Before this course, I did have an acute awareness of data as something created or imposed on […]

Now that I have a clear and exciting trajectory for my creative component, I’m beginning to worry about defining my critical approach. This will of course be responsive to the particular questions the less predictable parts of my research—namely, my outputs—raise, but defining a structure, style, and audience for the paper will be important as […]

The World as Story was interesting to me because it gave me a chance to hear scholars from other disciplines more formally introduce narratology into their work. While ideas about story formation and interpretation implicitly underlie almost everything else I engage in, I hadn’t seen the kinds of direct arguments for the relevance of narrative […]

Which kinds of texts should I include in my dataset? Obviously this raises some ethical considerations–besides my own personal information, much of the text I’ve written and saved will include others’ data and, in some cases, intellectual property, where I’m responding to or quoting heavily from another text. My impulse currently is not to draw […]

While I do think the form of my project needs to be somewhat mutable until I see what kinds of output my model produces, I am starting to think more about the specific modes and forms of expression it might take. I am hoping to embody my digital identity in some sense, to make it […]

At the start of semester 1, I was worried that I wouldn’t find a strong enough organizing principle for my interdisciplinary interests to guide my work and research moving forward, including the Futures Project. It was so easy for me to relocate my ideas between disciplines–the way I described Narrative Futures to friends and family […]

Reading and responding to others’ blogs has definitely been helpful for broadening my ideas of what this project could be. From ambitious interactive narratives and visual novels to in-depth research papers and timely data visualizations, bouncing ideas back and forth with creatives who have such varied skills and interests has been really exciting. It’s challenged […]

Text Remix has been incredibly valuable for the development of my project. Holding code and creativity together in any context is a delight for me, but specifically dealing with textual creative work both as a suitable input for code and as its intended output was especially exciting. My project does not directly generate creative work […]

Of all my electives for this programme, writing speculative fiction is the one I entered with the most expectations regarding content and layout. I’ve been in fiction workshops before; I’ve discussed craft and genre and criticism in similar ways to the course texts. However, the real mystery for me was how the course would factor […]

At this point, I am assuming that my project will be some narrative exploration of my own digitised self, utilizing generative models trained on my own personal data. I don’t yet know what form the narrative will take; it may possibly be that I can present my conversation with my digital doppelganger as a narrative […]