Can robots write poetry? Can you tell the difference when poems aren’t human-made? Join us online for this year’s Science & Sonnets event to find out!
Local Houston poets will read their own works along with AI-written poems and you will have an opportunity to guess what’s android and what’s humanoid. You’ll get to learn how bots can be programmed to write their own poetry, while discovering some of Houston’s literary talents. Poetry meets data science in our second annual Science & Sonnets!
Sunday August 30th - 1pm PDT / 3pm CDT / 4pm EDT
You can follow the event on Facebook live on our page but for the full interactive experience we recommend you join us on zoom so you can take part in the polls. You can do that by clicking the link below:
Meet our speakers
Josh Urban Davis
Josh is an American research-based artist and engineer from Texas whose practice incorporates sculpture, performance, writing, sound, and video. His research interests span a wide spectrum of topics in human-computer interaction (HCI), with a specific emphasis on generative design, interaction techniques, and novel interface technologies. Davis' recent creative projects explore the relationship between emerging technologies, social relationships, and identity. Explicitly engaged with the very technologies that he critiques, Davis' work viscerally confronts the viewer, inviting us to contemplate the role new technologies play in mediating our understanding of reality and identity. His work has been exhibited at D!iverseWorks, the Blaffer Art Museum, Chandler Center for the Arts, Art League Houston, and others. He currently lives in Hanover, NH with his cat, Nocturne, where he is pursuing a PhD in computer sciences at Dartmouth.
Rahul Rao
Rahul is a local writer, performance artist, and sometimes rapper. They perform Industrial Spoken Word around Houston, which incorporates poetry over looped samples and music.
BJ Love
BJ is a poet and teacher living in Houston, TX. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, his work can be found in The North American Review, Gulf Coast, and Hobart.
Erika Jo Brown
Erika is the author of the poetry collection I'm Your Huckleberry. She earned her PhD in from the University of Houston and MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She teaches in the English Department and Honors College at the University of Houston, and at MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital through WITS.