Just presented a paper by Anastasia Salter and I on Distant Coding and the Future of Interactive Narrative Pedagogy today at ICIDS in Malta. Thanks @alexmitchell.bsky.social for the photo! You can find our paper here: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

I haven't posted much lately. I am currently in Malta at ICIDS 2025 presenting a paper on Distant Coding and Digitial Narrative Pedagogy and also a workshop on methods in interactive digital narratives. icids2025.ardin.online

I'm co-teaching a DHSI workshop next summer with @lucidbard.bsky.social on programming for the digital humanities in the context of agentic AI and rapidly changing interfaces for computational work. Watch our awkward promo video + consider joining us: dhsi.org/2025/09/30/d... #dhmakes

While at #ELO25 I’m launching a new online project. Here is “No Time to Discourse”—a speculative atlas of future climate disaster. Millions of (non-AI) procedurally generated flash fiction disaster stories. And they all hit a little too close to home these days. notime.now

#elo25 starts today. T&T has SEVEN people participating: students @pdedgar30.bsky.social, Ricky Finch, and Anyssa Gonzalez; alum @videlais.bsky.social; incoming student Glenn Ritchey; and faculty @anasalter.bsky.social and @lucidbard.bsky.social

It was a great week! I really appreciate everyone's energy and thoughtful insights. Check out my prototype for how AI might be integrated into coding lessons at jtm.io/codepedagogy/

I gave a presentation last August for a local UX meetup group (Downtown Orlando UX Meetup) that describes the newly coined "vibe coding" when I was still grappling with its implications for the future of programming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzkS... Also featured is a preview of RealityFlow's AI.

#TBT to T&T faculty member @lucidbard.bsky.social's 2021 paper, "Transfordance: The Decentering Effect of Transformative Affordances in Virtual Reality in The Hollow Reach." Check it out! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Spring break. I am definitely not at a beach in South Florida. Probably.

Everything is worse, so here's an update on our resident baby owl.

I always wanted to do this, though maybe not as artistically as some have.

My absolute favorite thing from today's workshop slides (drawn from a local deployment of deepseek-r1:70b @lucidbard.bsky.social + I were testing) is this encounter about political history and also Python.

Excited to work with @lucidbard.bsky.social @markcmarino.bsky.social and Maria C. Reyes on The Hollow Reach during my undergraduate independent research.

@anasalter.bsky.social connecting the lessons from Flash to the black box nature of ChatGPT and Google. Salter is calls on scholars to push back against the consequences of closed source tools, noting for example how AI summaries are obtuse about how facts are included. #mla2025

At the full session where @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social opened by bringing us up to date on discourse around Generative AI. Speakers balance hope with realism and providing advice on how academia can confront the challenges that are mounting.

Our second @eliterature.bsky.social session at #mla25 kicks off at 3:30: "Textual Futures + Generative AI." Join us in the Canal room - anastasiasalter.net/FutureTexts/ + mla.confex.com/mla/2025/mee...

I was fortunate to participate in the Doctoral Consortium track with two mentorship sessions from the very talented Mads Haahr and John Murray @lucidbard.bsky.social, and to receive insightful and actionable comments about my PhD work from each one's unique perspective. Heartfelt thank you! 🙏 ✨

Hi, #bsky! Here's an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal of critical writing on #digitalculture, #criticalAI, #e-literature, #gaming and all forms of digital creativity aka "digital futures of literature, theory, criticism, and the arts". You can check us out here: electronicbookreview.com

As our December issue is due tomorrow, you can check out some interesting articles from the last month, including an article by @berrydm.bsky.social and Mark Marino on ELIZA and Critical Code Studies 20 years after Marino's Critical Code Studies Manifesto. electronicbookreview.com/essay/readin...

I'm Program Co-chair for this year's International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling. The conference combines perspectives from academics as well as practitioners. Check out the conference: www.facebook.com/ICIDS The full program here: icids2024.ardin.online/program/.

A new paper highlighting the continuing issue of improving disabled access to VR games. Owlchemy led the way on this in the early days. Are there any great accessible examples of VR games that I failed to notice in the years since?

Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman's book on the Intellivision is out (in the MIT Press Platform Studies series I co-edit). It's an absolute monster, the result of thousands of interviews, and the definitive work on this weird machine. mitpress.mit.edu/978026254950...

Our two businesses, @yarnspinner.dev and @secretlab.games are here now. Give us a follow?

So I've just made this Starter Pack of #electronicliterature and digital narrative peeps: there's more of you out there that need adding, so please don't be shy in letting me know who you are [maybe you have suggestions @eliterature.bsky.social, @samplereality.bsky.social, @elikaortega.bsky.social]?

Hi all! I am a professor who is focused on AI and VR, and think they both relate to interactive digital narratives and the future of computational literacy. I'm co-PI on an NSF grant which aims to increase diversity in VR research and am active in both ELO and ICIDS. I like to build and understand.

@melstanfill.bsky.social presents on AI pedagogies and examples from practice at #scms24. Connects the ways to use and think about AI critically to previous imaginations of how AI could exist and states that everyone is teaching AI now, intentionally or not

Liz Losh gives a fantastic presentation on AI pedagogies at #scms24. Encouraging instructors to focus more on process and literacy to reduce assignment vulnerabilities.

Standing room only at the rockstar ChatGPT and pedagogy panel kicking off now at #scms24

Doug Stark presents "AI Aesthetics, Generator Technics, and Time to Revisit Stiegler" at #scms24 and addresses generative AI image creation in the context of photographic truth in the advent of digital and now generative image creation. Stark reviews both malicious and hopeful uses of gen AI

@mirekstolee.bsky.social from @ucftandt.bsky.social positioned the complex history of the "escape room" as a label and genre crossing digital and analog games at #scms24

Leif Weatherby presents on the disappointment that LLMs can't do anything more than poetry in his talk at #scms24, "LLM stands for Large Literary Machine." Now notes comparisons to the internet, citing @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social "Prepare for the Textpocalypse" www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

In full Disney adult mode for today's #scms24 panel on fandom & immersive media! 🐭Join us at 2 PM - I'll be talking about Dapper Day, Adventureland Day, and queer resistance in the theme park as culture wars battleground.

"Critical Making With/Against AI" kicking off with two @ucftandt.bsky.social alumni representing at #scms24

Anastasia Salter's keynote this morning made a strong case for the importance of coding or programming as a necessary skill and activity for IDN authoring in the age of AI. Many shout outs to Critical Code Studies (Mark Marino)

Very excited to be one of the keynote speakers for the upcoming ICIDS 2023 conference in Kobe, Japan - I'll be talking about who we include and exclude in the quest for "no-code" and "low-code" authoring tools such as Twine, Inform 7, Adventure Game Studio...and yes, ChatGPT. icids2023.ardin.online

I'm presenting a collab with @lucidbard.bsky.social + @ucftandt.bsky.social alum @jackademia.bsky.social at SIGDOC this afternoon: "Playing with AI Chat: Positioning 'Dangerous' Language Model Futures through Interactive Fiction." The proceedings paper is up on ACM at: doi.org/10.1145/3615...

A public memorial event is being held to honor our friend and colleague, Margie Luesebrink. A pioneering artist, she wrote under the name M.D. Coverley. Join us in commemorating her contributions