The Humanities and AI | Marcel O’Gorman, digital artist and technoculture critic

“Generative AI is very much a solution without a problem.” —Marcel O’Gorman

In May 2024, digital artist and techno critic Marcel O’Gorman co-led a workshop on “reimagining generative AI literacy in higher education” for the Humanities Institute on ASU’s Tempe campus. We sat down with him during that visit to ask some questions about AI and the future.

O’Gorman is a University Research Chair, professor of English, and founding director of the Critical Media Lab (CML) at Waterloo University, where he teaches courses, leads collaborative projects, and directs workshops in digital design and the philosophy of technology. He has published widely about the impacts of technology, including his books “E-Crit” and “Necromedia,” and articles in Slate, The Atlantic, and The Globe and Mail. He is also a digital artist with an international portfolio of exhibitions and performances. This experience guides the creative hands-on methods espoused by the Critical Media Lab and outlined in detail in his most recent book “Making Media Theory: Thinking Critically with Technology.” O’Gorman’s most recent research looks at how critical and inclusive design methods might help tackle some of the moral and ethical issues faced by contemporary technoculture.

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With degrees on the Tempe campus and online, Arizona State University's Department of English offers six distinct areas of study: creative writing; English education; film and media studies; linguistics, applied linguistics and TESOL; literature; and writing, rhetorics and literacies. It also administers the university's first-year writing programs and houses cross-disciplinary degrees in narrative studies and in culture, technology and environment.

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