My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence: A Speculative Fiction (Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media)

A series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum. Is it possible that creative artists have more in common with machines than we might think?Employing an improvisational call-and-response writing performance coauthored with an AI text generator, remix artist and scholar Mark Amerika, interrogates how his own "psychic automatism" is itself a nonhuman function strategically designed to reveal the poetic attributes of programmable worlds still unimagined.Through a series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum, Amerika critically reflects on whether creativity itself is, at root, a nonhuman information behavior that emerges from an onto-operational presence experiencing an otherworldly aesthetic sensibility.Amerika engages with his cyberpunk imagination to simultaneously embrace and problematize human-machine collaborations.He draws from jazz performance, beatnik poe