the digital review

Issue 05 is live: Video Essays about Video Games, edited by Jentery Sayers with Annie Beingessner, Callum Carroll-Ireton, Maya Wei Yan Linsley & April Rogers of UVic’s Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies. thedigitalreview.com/?v=2

Dreaming Ourselves Forward: The Sunnyside Wisdom Project By SUNNYSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS (2024 COHORT), GRAHAM BAECHLER, LAI-TZE FAN & TATUM WEICKER 8th grade students use generative AI tools to visually explore personal and cultural identity. thedigitalreview.com/issue04…

Demons & Ghosts By Lisa Farrell "Daemons and Ghosts" raises concerns about the implications of AI for education. The work underscores the importance of experimentation, urging students to engage critically with AI to discover their own creative voices. thedigitalreview.com/issue04…

almost imperceptible delays and lags By Manuel Portela "almost imperceptible delays and lags" is a four-part multimedia play featuring self-reflexive characters A and B, who explore their mediated existence through technological inscriptions. thedigitalreview.com/issue04…

Not a Muse, But Demise BY SOMU HWA & ANDREA KIM Somu Hwa, an LLM-based authoring system created by Andrea Kim, invites readers to explore cyclical narratives, the dynamics of fabulation, creativity, and finding what's human in the machine. thedigitalreview.com/issue04…

AI: A Love Story BY ALAN BIGELOW "AI: A Love Story" humorously explores the complex human relationship with AI, highlighting our evolving emotional connections with technology. thedigitalreview.com/issue04…

The Songbird Speaks BY ALINTA KRAUTH "The Songbird Speaks" explores the improvisational singing abilities of Australian magpies through an AI audio listening device. thedigitalreview.com/issue04…

Algorithmic Light BY RICHARD CARTER "Algorithmic Light" explores how sensing technologies and AI can foster speculative perspectives on an ever-transforming world... thedigitalreview.com/issue04…

Smaller, Slower, Sloppier BY XUAN YE Xuan Ye's work examines the symbiotic dialogue of AI and human co-creation, advocating an embrace of imperfection and unpredictability, resisting the trend toward flawless technology. thedigitalreview.com/issue04…

With dark humor, @scottrettberg 's "Fin du Monde" explores apocalyptic themes through AI-generated media. The work comes with a extensive critical essay: thedigitalreview.com/issue04…

[Por]TrAIts: AI Characters + Their Microstories BY MEZ BREEZE "storied canvases that invite viewers to decode a complex interplay of human and machine authorship...where the boundary between creator and creation is fluid." thedigitalreview.com/issue04…

Identity Upgrade BY JHAVE "Identity Upgrade" is a series of nine AI-generated videos that imagine machine extensions of body and consciousness. Themes of interconnectedness, biochemistry, and neurological plasticity. thedigitalreview.com/issue04…

NEW: Issue 04: "AI-Augmented Creativity" showcases artists and scholars who have long pondered the implications of AI-assisted creativity. They explore the profound possibilities of amplifying human intuition, improvisation, and collaboration. thedigitalreview.com/

CFP: ISSUE 04 (2024) Deadline 1/15/24 AUGMENTING CREATIVITY EDITOR: Will Luers Submit born-digital works that delve into machine-augmented creativity in light of generative AI's growing influence on cultural production... thedigitalreview.com/submiss…

The Liberation Calendar Has Been Shared With You BY LOOM Loom’s The Liberation Calendar Has Been Shared With You - "dates of importance to the decolonial histories of the Americas, Africa, and Asia" thedigitalreview.com/issue03…

In Search of the Drowned BY GABOR MIHALY TOTH Toth’s 'In Search of the Drowned" is a tripartite work of digital art-scholarship that explores the notion of a testimonial fragment – here, as part of our history about the Holocaust. thedigitalreview.com/issue03…

Z^k: A Zettelkablooey BY JOSHUA REINIER "...an interactive textpainting/puzzle that smashes together one of the predecessors to modern hypertext." thedigitalreview.com/issue03…

A Condensed History of Australian Camels BY DAVID THOMAS HENRY WRIGHT, LOUIS PRATT, KAREN LOWRY, AND CHRIS ARNOLD "[an] archival-poetic (re)presentation of Australia’s history as a colonized state." thedigitalreview.com/issue03…

Dante Darko BY CLAIRE DONATO AND ANASTASIOS KARNAZES "Dante Darko is a dreamy, irreverent ode to adolescent fannish obsessions – an abecedarian poem spoken against stills and footage from the eponymous film..." thedigitalreview.com/issue03…

My Daughter was Abducted by Aliens BY DAMON PHẠM Through the use of a Markov chain model, using "...an English-language dataset of approximately 90,000 UFO sightings...", the story of a child believed to be kidnapped by extraterrestrials. thedigitalreview.com/issue03…