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Armstrong is the author of Crisis & Repetition: Essays on Art and Culture (Michigan State University Press, 2002), which relates art historical movements to concepts from speculative metaphysics. She has written numerous essays for publications including P.S.1/MoMa, Blackflash, Fillip, Leonardo, SubTerrain, and the Kootenay School of Writing. She contributed "A List of Condominium Developments Reimagined as New Media Art Projects" to DAMP: Contemporary Vancouver Media Arts (Anvil Press, 2008), and is the editor of 3 books, Ten Different Things (2018), Art and Disruption (2015), and Electric Speed (2013). She contributed "Top 10 Things Machines Can Do that Humans Can't Easily Do, According to Schopenhauer, Tweaked to Account for the Existence of the Internet (Number 6 is Epic)" to For Machine Use Only: Contemplations on Algorithmic Epistemology (Guangju Biennale, &&& c/o The New Centre for Research and Practice, 2016) and published Generative Activity in Art and Literature in #WomenTechLit (West Virginia University Press, 2017) and Contexts, Forms, and Practices of Electronic Literature (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Her current work and research about impacts of AI on art and design can be found on AI Futures for Art and Design.
Read the full paper on generative art and literature on Academia.edu.
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May 20
Pump up the Jank
Here's to a moving neck and multiple types of loud
Apr 15
What the Fungus Knows
Does Sam Altman know
Mar 31
Spiritual Weather
Weird with patches of clarity
Feb 27
The Long Road to the Avocado Chair
A lot of minds were blown in 2021 when Dalle-2 first created a picture of an avocado that is also a chair.
Feb 12
Toward a Critical Media Theory of the Hot Tub
Hot tubs don't appear very often in critical media theory or histories of technology but they should.
Feb 6
The week it became truly weird
All Hail Mike Tyson's Fruit
Jan 11
Back from a Future
And it's a fatty