On June 12-14 members of the Academic Forms network joined other scholars and digital practitioners at the DGfA/GAAS 71st Annual Meeting in Seigen on the topic of “Archiving America / American Archives“. The workshop contemplated the forms of the archive and focused on the question, “Can archives be more than datasets?”
Papers includes:
Rebecca Roach (Birmingham): Literary Fiction’s ‘White Guy Problem’ and AI’s Historical Imaginary
Sarah Ciston (Linz): Encoding/Decoding Language Models
Tim Lanzendörfer (Frankfurt): Creativity and Archivality: AI and Literary Studies
Gero Guttzeit (Tübingen/LMU München): Can the Critic Be More Alive than the Author? Imagining the Curator of the Post-Artificial Archive
Max José Dreysse Passos de Carvalho (Frankfurt): Beyond Datasets: The Digital Archive of the Video Game Beyond AI
There was lively discussion with the audience on everything from the industry-produced challenges of preserving digital games, through to AI novels, and the trauma of returning to post-structuralist theory.