<div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:11pt">Computer Arts Society ONLINE Talk “An Unexpected Story: AI
and the Writer” - host Geoff Davis with David Link (art and also music </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">with F.M. Einheit ex</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> Einstürzende Neubauten).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Computer-generated text is not new. From the first
procedural poems of 1952 through hypertext fiction, net art, and early neural
text experiments, artists and programmers have been exploring what machines can
do with language long before ChatGPT turned it into a mainstream source of
fascination and anxiety.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Today, the concerns are real: ownership, authorship,
payment, and what still counts as human work. This talk traces the hidden
history behind those questions through the work of David Link and Geoff Davis,
and asks what it means to build your own tools in a culture where most people
are using someone else’s.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Online only - Wednesday 20th May 2026 - 18:00 BST 6pm UK</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Geoff Davis, Dr David Link </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:11pt">Geoff Davis is an artist, PEN-published writer and CAS
Committee member with a practice spanning four decades, from early text
generation and computer art in the 1980s to contemporary AI-assisted works,
along with novels and music. He is the editor of the AI Creative Anthology
series (2023, 2024, 2026) and has hosted a series of AI and the Arts panel
talks for the Computer Arts Society.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Davis is a researcher at UAL examining AI and text
generation, the practical use and emotional dimensions of both the user
response and the tool itself, including sycophancy and what he terms 'mood
bias'. His first Story Generator, written and released by Micro Arts in 1985
and distributed via the Prestel network, has been exhibited internationally
from 1985 to 2025, and was described by curator Georg Bak as 'an early
precursor of ChatGPT'. Davis also created pioneering Pixel art and Glitch art
in 1984, and a code generated animation from Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto,
exploring themes of Universal Basic Income, which he returns to in Pattern
City, a novel incorporating art, due 2026. His work is in many international
collections.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">More information at <a href="http://linktr.ee/GeoffDavis">linktr.ee/GeoffDavis</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">David Link, born in Düsseldorf in 1971. Artist, media
theorist and programmer. Lives and works in Cologne, Germany.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Music - <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Radar Angels </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">with F.M. Einheit (ex</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> Einstürzende Neubauten).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">His artistic works are shown at festivals and in museums
worldwide. Exhibitions (selection): Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (2010); dOCUMENTA
13, Kassel (2012); Microwave Festival, Hong Kong (2012); YCAM, Yamaguchi, Japan
(2013); ZKM, Karlsruhe (2015, 2018, 2019-2022); CCCB, Barcelona, Spain (2016);
Manchester Art Gallery, UK (2016); MAK, Vienna, Austria (2019); Crone Gallery
Wien Berlin (2021, 2022); Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art, China (2023).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">His theoretical work can be found in: David Link,
Archaeology of Algorithmic Artefacts (Minneapolis: Univocal, 2016). In 2024, he
published Pandaemonium, a 300-page poem, entirely computer-generated (Berlin:
Matthes and Seitz, 2024, in German). In 2009 he coded and exhibited Strachey’s
famous ‘Love Poems’ from 1952.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> <span style="font-size:11pt">More information: Dr. David Link</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> <span style="font-size:11pt">We will discuss other writers such as Richard Beard and his
‘Universal Turing Machine’.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> <span style="font-size:11pt">More information</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""> <span style="font-size:11pt">Next talk is Genetic Moo – “Interactive Art Is Best” –
details here:</span></p>
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