Blocks world world: Gender, labor, chatbots
While the book BLOCKS WORLD uses poetry to explore extrahuman entanglements, the interdisciplinary project BLOCKS WORLD WORLD approaches similar questions from different directions. BLOCKS WORLD WORLD is a research ecosystem in which the poetry of BLOCKS WORLD coexists with nonfiction, a one-act play, academic papers, and public talks. In BLOCKS WORLD WORLD, the distinctions between human, nature, and technology blur, fade, and melt to allow new possibilities for extrahuman intra-action to emerge.
Labor Organinzing
Emergency Workplace Organizing
#NOTABOT: Updates on unionization efforts by chatbot operators affiliated with AppFolio
Collaborative performance
“Someone Has to Drive the Car,” collaborative writing project co-conceived with Starship Delivery Robots at the University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 2023
“Personal Girl”, an original one-act play about origins of gendered chatbots and working while woman. Performed with LeAnne Howe, Sam Regal, Nate Dixon, David Cowan, Jake Hunsbusher, Brooke McCarthy, and Tracey Lynn Mikeska. Hendershots, Athens, GA 2018
Someone Has to Drive the Car
Reading at East City Park, Moscow, ID 2023
Photo by Chris Drangle
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS and invited talks
“Hey Siri, What Are the Rhetorical Implications of Feminized A.I.?” paper presented at the Carolina Rhetoric Conference, Online, 2021 ABSTRACT
“Natural Language: An AI-Powered Approach to Creative Writing,” paper and poetry reading presented at University of North Carolina Charlotte English Graduate Student Association conference, Online, 2021 ABSTRACT
“A Life of Its Own: Gender, AI, and Hospitality,” paper to be presented at bi-annual Rhetoric Society of America meeting, Portland, OR 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19) ABSTRACT
“Natural Language: AI and Creative Writing,” ENGL 3800 Honors: Digital Storytelling, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 2020
“Initial Reference: Automating Administrative Assistants in the age of ARPANET,” paper presented at Society for the History of Technology meeting, Special Interest Group for Computing in Society, Saint Louis, MO 2018 ABSTRACT
Awards and Grants
Shelter Project Award, Willson Center for the Humanities and Art, 2021
Willson Center Graduate Research Award, Willson Center for the Humanities and Art, 2019
Computer History Travel Award, MIT Press, 2018
Summer Research Travel Grant, University of Georgia Graduate School, 2018