Allison Parrish's “Compasses” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2021, category Artificial Life & Intelligence.
Compasses is a collection of poems written with a machine learning model of spelling and phonetics. The model invents new words in negative spaces between supposedly discrete categories. I trained a machine learning model with two parts: a “speller,” which spells words based on how they sound, and a “sounder-out,”…
About Allison Parrish
Allison Parrish (US) is a computer programmer, poet, educator, and game designer whose teaching and practice address the unusual phenomena that blossom when language and computers meet.
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