Doclisboa’ 18
Doclisboa’18 Presents its Retrospective and Focus: Luis Ospina and Sailing the Euphrates, Travelling the Time of the World At 10:30pm, on July 27th, Doclisboa – International Film Festival will present a preview of its 2018 retrospective and special focus sections, through an open-air screening at the Cinemateca Portuguesa – one of the venues of the […]
The Policeman’s Beard is Algorithmically Constructed
Racter poses virtually no threat to human authors, nor does any other algorithmic author currently available. The question is hence not one of replacement, but of augmentation, of new responsibilities for the human author in light of the algorithmic one. When Juhl writes that computer-generated output lacks the intentionality of a text with a human author, he falls into a similar trap as Bök: both scholars fail to recognise the fundamentally human basis of algorithmic authorship. Human intention hasn’t disappeared, but is merely manifest in a new way. Indeed, The Policeman’s Beard‘s apparent randomness is a rhetorical choice, and Racter’s nonsensical output pushes the limits of creativity by means of an intentional goal to be incomprehensible.
By Leah Hendrickson.