Submission Deadline: July 31, 2024
There are two Digital Humanities sessions during the Renaissance Society of American 71st Annual Meeting that will focus on:
- New Technologies and Renaissance Studies: Since 2001, the Renaissance Society of America annual meetings have featured “New Technologies and Renaissance Studies” panels on the applications of new technology in scholarly research, publishing, and teaching. Panels at the 2025 meeting will continue to explore the contributions made by new and emerging methodologies and the projects that employ them. For more information, visit the session’s page.
- RenAIssance Studies: Techne, Technicity, and Artificial Intelligence: How might artificial intelligence text-generating mechanisms breathe new life into existing words through new assemblages and intermediality? Can they recycle and re-generate patterns of creativity? In what senses might AI be theorized as a type of RenAIssance technology of re-generation that connects early modern thoughts on mind-body and modern models of ideation? There are tangible and intangible ideological connections between technologies of representation from the invention of the printing press to the latest algorithmic text-generating mechanisms. This session explores how our current debates about generative AI and algorithmic technologies are informed and bolstered by early modern epistemologies, such as Cartesian mind-body dualism. Conversely, current scientific and able-bodied models of relating to the world and its representation in datasets also send a new light on assumptions behind empiricism and early modern understanding of techné–the craft and technical affordances of writing and all forms of representational technologies from the codex book to stage performance.
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