The author explores existential oddities while examining manuscripts in a Qatari museum, using AI insights.More
Author Archives: Richard Coyne
The cultural, social and spatial implications of computers and pervasive digital media spark my interest ... enjoy architecture, writing, designing, philosophy, coding and media mashups.
Voices without bodies 2
The post reflects on the evolving significance of voice in technology and cinema.More
The clone and I
Video cloning produces uncanny effects. I demonstrate with my own cloned voice and image.More
Thinking about walking
I linked my cloned avatar and voice to re-present this article from 2013 about walking.More
My first video clone
Synthetic video and voice experiment revisiting a post from November 2013 titled “Feeling free in flight” and continuing the theme of the cyborg.More
Experts versus algorithms
I reflect on the evolving perception of algorithms since my 2013 post. Initially seen positively, algorithms are now criticized for exacerbating biases on social media. Some argue that expertise involves more than performance metrics, highlighting the importance of context, accountability, and collective reasoning in decision-making, which algorithms cannot replicate. References Daniel Kahneman.More
The “intellectual cyborg”
The post discusses the cyborg concept, emphasizing our dependence on technology, while critiquing posthumanism and its implications.More
Metafiction and metaphor
Most fictional writing makes generous use of figurative language: hyperbole (exaggeration), anthropomorphism, simile. This much is obvious. As a reminder, here’s a fragment of imaginative writing from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities: “The slender stilts that rise from the ground at a great distance from one another and are lost above the clouds support the city.…More
The threat
“You told me you would start writing now you have time on your hands. You have plenty to write about since you came out of confinement.” I took that as a threat. If I didn’t give an account I could end up inside again. Then it dawned. My inquisitor was writing everything down. “Do you…More
Metafiction and melancholy
A metafiction typically reflects on the writing process of the author as the work is being written. Either fictional characters assume the role of the author of the piece, or actual authors weave themselves into the story and reflect on their own processes. Metafiction is an appropriate genre with which to explore melancholy. Scholars have…More