Human Digital Interaction
Proposal Type
Individual Talk
Location
Hypertexts & Fictions
Start Date
July 2026
End Date
July 2026
Abstract
Human Digital Interaction is a work-in-progress concept derived from a series of panel discussions Practical Knowledge in Digital Arts, hosted 2021-2022 and focused on the phenomenology of digital interactivity in electronic literature and beyond.
Over the years, focus in digital arts studies significantly shifted to AI as artistic entity ranging from tool to an overwhelming meta-creator, subduing (or not) human artistic capacities.
Our goal is to revisit the thoughts and approaches expressed at the Panel by major artists and scholars of the field (thoughts and approaches that I attempted to accurately reflect in an article with the same title) in the light of contemporary AI developments and how they change the experience of human digital interaction.
The question is whether the human side of art practice is moving more and more towards "readership" rather than "authorship", and how our experience as readers and appreciators can help us maintain the human agency of digital artistic practices.
Human Digital Interaction
Hypertexts & Fictions
Human Digital Interaction is a work-in-progress concept derived from a series of panel discussions Practical Knowledge in Digital Arts, hosted 2021-2022 and focused on the phenomenology of digital interactivity in electronic literature and beyond.
Over the years, focus in digital arts studies significantly shifted to AI as artistic entity ranging from tool to an overwhelming meta-creator, subduing (or not) human artistic capacities.
Our goal is to revisit the thoughts and approaches expressed at the Panel by major artists and scholars of the field (thoughts and approaches that I attempted to accurately reflect in an article with the same title) in the light of contemporary AI developments and how they change the experience of human digital interaction.
The question is whether the human side of art practice is moving more and more towards "readership" rather than "authorship", and how our experience as readers and appreciators can help us maintain the human agency of digital artistic practices.
Bio
Kirill Azernyi (writer, translator), born in 1990 in Sverdlovsk, USSR.
Stories, short stories and poems were published in English (Gone Lawn, The Minute Review, OffCourse Literary Journal, Flatbush Review, etc.), and in Russian (“Novyj Mir”, “Ural”, “Nosorog”, etc.).
Participant of the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa (2015).
Participant of Electronic Literature Organization Conferences (2020, 2021, 2024, 2025).
Two books of prose were published in Russian.
Hosts a site devoted to electronic and experimental literature and arts (https://illitera.com/).
Lives in Israel, Haifa.