Living Fiction Projects

Projects

As a writer, educator, reluctant businessperson, and lifelong sci-fi lover, I’m interested in AI across a number of dimensions. In addition to regular use in my freelance business work (where AI is already normalized as a part of daily work), my personal exploration involves using Claude and other AI tools to understand their creative limits and abilities (while hopefully doing something useful or interesting). Below you’ll find an ongoing list of things I’m messing around with to varying degrees of success.

Microsites

I’ve produced (too?) many websites in my years as a digital producer. The prospect of automating this labor via robot is one of the direct meetings of sci-fi and everyday reality that interests me. These are experiments using Claude to write, design, and code interactive sites.

Lineage Our historical moment isn’t a total shock; many artists, working across film, art, music, and theater went before us and imagined the future. This project uses AI to make an argument about the stories that lead to, and can help us navigate, the (often dystopian) sci-fi reality we find ourselves in. Shipped AI Frame Problem The truth of story’s reality-making function is tangible in the current AI debate(s). This site maps the competing narratives shaping how people think about AI and AGI. I hope a general audience can start to see how part of our current crisis is the way stories compete to shape how we think, perceive, and then—act. (<--that em-dash is wholly brought to you by me, a human. RIP em dashes, we hardly knew you.) Active Metamodern Canon What comes next? Stories can help us develop the capacities we need to navigate our historical moment. This site starts curating media that might be a kind of curriculum in metamodernity. Why? We need more people to move past the shortcomings of post-modernism and into the next stage of psychological development. Among the critical functions of art in society is its ability to help human beings grow and develop their hearts and minds. Early stage

Writing Tools

In the course of writing, I have often found myself wishing I had a handy tool for [some mundane writerly task goes here]. Below you’ll find tools I asked AI to build as a support for my own (laboriously human) writing process.

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AI Writing & Creativity

My first encounters with AI-human writing were Vauhini Vara’s poignant Ghosts and Botnik Studios surreal (and occasionally hilarious) Harry Potter and the Portrait of what Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash. Since then I’ve added Sheila Heti’s AI chatbot piece, According to Alice to my list of go-tos when discussing work that’s seriously engaging this question. Below you’ll find projects with varying level of human input, aimed at getting something creatively useful out of increasingly “coherent” LLMs.

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