{"id":153136,"date":"2019-10-02T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T19:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=153136"},"modified":"2019-10-02T15:06:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T19:06:09","slug":"whalen-publishes-essay-on-computer-generated-creative-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2019\/10\/02\/whalen-publishes-essay-on-computer-generated-creative-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Whalen Publishes Essay on Computer-Generated Creative Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div id=\"attachment_153137\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153137\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-153137\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Whalen-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Whalen-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Whalen-768x1368.jpg 768w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Whalen-575x1024.jpg 575w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Whalen.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-153137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Associate Professor Zach Whalen<\/p><\/div><p>Zach Whalen, Associate Professor of English, has just published an article in a special issue of <em>The Journal of Creative Writing Studies<\/em> on &ldquo;Creative Making as Creative Writing.&rdquo; His article, &ldquo;The Many Authors of <em>The Several Houses of Brian, Spencer, Liam, Victoria, Brayden, Vincent, and Alex<\/em>: Authorship, Agency, and Appropriation,&rdquo; is an artist&rsquo;s statement reflecting on how creating a computer-generated book like Whalen&rsquo;s 2017 work <em>The Several Houses of Brian, Spencer, Liam, Victoria, Brayden, Vincent, and Alex<\/em> invites readers to reconsider the idea of what it means to be an author. Whalen&rsquo;s book draws on several different databases to create an essentially infinite variation on the nursery rhyme &ldquo;This is the House that Jack Built&rdquo;; these databases contain the work of hundreds of contributors, so Whalen argues in this article that the novel is best considered a collaboration among many instead of the work of a single individual or computer. <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarworks.rit.edu\/jcws\/vol4\/iss1\/\">https:\/\/scholarworks.rit.edu\/jcws\/vol4\/iss1\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zach Whalen, Associate Professor of English, has just published an article in a special issue of The Journal of Creative Writing Studies on &ldquo;Creative Making as Creative Writing.&rdquo; His article, &ldquo;The Many Authors of The Several Houses of Brian, Spencer, Liam, Victoria, Brayden, Vincent, and Alex: Authorship, Agency, and Appropriation,&rdquo; is an artist&rsquo;s statement reflecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28591,"featured_media":153137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[9043,455,960],"class_list":["post-153136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-professional-notes","tag-department-of-english-linguistics-and-communication","tag-grichard","tag-zwhalen","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}