Join XD@GW for tea!

Please join XD@GW for a faculty tea & discussion of collaboration in the digital age on 9/21, Wednesday in Gelman Library 702. No RSVP required.

Please join XD@GW for a faculty tea & discussion of collaboration in the digital age on 9/21, Wednesday in Gelman Library 702. No RSVP required.
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.
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.
There are cases of AI monks and priests. Though religious institutions have not always behaved ethically in the past, they have centuries of experience parsing moral conundrums through the lens of their own belief systems. Prof. Irene Oh from the GW Department of Religion will lead a discussion of the many ways that artificial intelligence is changing the meaning and practice of religion.
The first DH SHOWCASE at GW is TODAY! Event website (with full schedule): go.gwu.edu/GWDoesDH Official hashtag: #GWDoesDH Sponsors and collaborating organizations: GW Digital Humanities Institute: @GWDHI GW Libraries: @gelmanlibrary Shira Eller (GW Librarian, Art and Design) Karim Boughida (GW Librarian for Digital Initiatives): @kboughida GW English: @gwengl GW Columbian College of Arts and Sciences: @gwucolumbian…
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.
GW Digital Humanities Institute founding co-director Alexa Alice Joubin received the Trachtenberg award for research as well as a Writing in the Discipline teaching award in 2022.