Critical Making: Grammars, Hypertexts, and Play in the Age of AI

Building on the exercises in their open access volume, Critical Making in the Age of AI , this hands-on workshop invites students, teachers, learners, and digital humanists to explore making as scholarship. It is open to all, and no prior experience is required. Due to space limitations, registration is requested.

Emily K. Johnson is assistant professor in the Department of English (Technical Communication and Digital Humanities), graduate faculty in the Technical Communication MA program, and core faculty in the Texts and Technology program at the University of Central Florida. She is co-author of Critical Making and the Age of AI and Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic: Pivoting to Games-Based Learning (both with Anastasia Salter).

Anastasia Salter is professor of English and director of Graduate Programs and the PhD in Texts and Technology at the University of Central Florida. In addition to Critical Making and the Age of AI and Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic: Pivoting to Games-Based Learning (both with Emily Johnson), Salter is the author of numerous books including Twining: Critical and Creative Approaches to Hypertext Narratives (with Stuart Moulthrop), Adventure Games: Playing the Outsider (with Aaron Reed and John Murray), Toxic Geek Masculinity in Media (with Bridget Blodgett), and What is Your Quest? From Adventure Games to Interactive Books.

This event is brought to you by the UVA Library DH Center and the Institute for the Arts & Humanities and Hereford College, with the generous support of Hereford Residential College, Learning Design + Technology, and Program in Digital Humanities & AI.