George Washington University launched the Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Initiative. The Digital Humanities Institute is proud to be a partner program, and Profess Alexa Alice Joubin is a TAI faculty.
The George Washington University Digital Humanities Institute is a hub of research, teaching, and outreach activities around artificial intelligence and digital artifacts. It is founded upon the core belief that the arts and humanities actively transform and are transformed by digital cultures. We seek to increase public engagement with digital humanities projects within and beyond the GW community and greater DC area.
We are pleased to announce the publication of Alexa Alice Joubin's online textbook Screening Shakespeare. The interactive, openly-licensed learning modules cover key concepts of film studies.
D. Gilson brought together 150 students, poets, artists, and academics to creatively rewrite all of Shakespeare’s sonnets in this collaborative, multimedia publication. Out of Sequence features works by English professors David McAleavey and Jonathan Hsy, PhD students Maia Gil’Adi, Sam Yates, Patrick Henry, and Dora Danylevich, and an afterword by Prof. Ayanna Thompson.
Digital archives and the cultural marketplace are changing the ways we think about scholarship and globalization. In this symposium, practitioners and scholars challenge audience members to become more inclusive in their research, pedagogical, and archival practices.
During her talk at the World Bank, Alexa Alice Joubin raised questions about the intersectionality of technology and art. Art is front and center in digital transformations of our society today. Art fosters creativity, and creative thinking leads to social change.
George Washington University Trustworthy AI Initiative and Digital Humanities Institute seek to employ a research assistant who is proficient in web development and generative AI tools.
In April, 2024, George Washington University launched the Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Initiative. Here is the news story. The Digital Humanities Institute is …
Susan Ariel Aaronson, Pamela Norris, Alexa Alice Joubin, and David Karpf Digital Humanities Institute founding co-director Alexa Alice Joubin has been named …
Generative AI tools stake claims to anonymized, collective authorship through machine-generated texts that are similar to patterns in the datasets they trained on. The notion of authorship faces new challenges of delineating the agency, knowability, and intentionality of written words. Led by Alexa Alice Joubin (English and Digital Humanities Institute) and Kylie Quave (University Writing Program and Anthropology), this session explores our society’s evolving relationship to written words and the future of the craft of writing.
What is missing from the current debate are insights from performance studies. Since ChatGPT remixes statistically most likely combinations of words, its outputs are in fact a form of theatrical performance. It draws on users’ prompts and the publics’ collective memories to produce improvised performances, within specific parameters, for its user-audiences.
