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SUMMARY:The Making of a Book: A Conversation with Johanna Drucker
DESCRIPTION:Join the University of Iowa Libraries for an intimate conversation with author\, artist\, and scholar Johanna Drucker about her new book\, Affluvia: The toxic off-gassing of affluent culture. In this talk\, Drucker will discuss her book\, along with its development \, and publication. It’s your chance to learn the ins and outs of writing and publishing your book.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/the-making-of-a-book-a-conversation-with-johanna-drucker/
LOCATION:University of Iowa Main Library room 2032 (second floor)\, 125 W Washington St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52242\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Iowa Bibliophiles Presents: Artists’ Books: Critical Writing in the Field with Johanna Drucker
DESCRIPTION:Artists’ books continue to be a hard-to-define and multifaceted field of works made at the intersections of conceptual art\, the craft of the book\, independent publishing\, alternative culture and other aesthetic motivations. No simple single lineage is shared by these works\, and even tracking them to an origin point (Illuminated manuscripts? The books of William Blake? The 20th century avant-garde?) can be problematic. Artists’ books have remained more marginalized in the mainstream art world than other forms like video or performance art\, in part because they are also difficult to exhibit in a way that lets them be read and experienced. The challenges for critical writing in the field are thus logistical as well as aesthetic. For a quarter of a century\, JAB: The Journal of Artists’ Books created a vital forum for critical writing. Literally hundreds of writers from dozens of countries contributed under the editorial vision of Brad Freeman. The University of Iowa Press recently issued The JAB Anthology\, a selection of works published from the journal. \nThis talk looks at the contributions of JAB\, relates these to other work in the field including my The Century of Artists’ Books (1994\, Granary Books)\, and includes a personal note on the dilemmas of producing one’s own artists’ books for decades. Brief interview clips with Brad Freeman will also be part of the talk. \nJohanna Drucker is an artist\, writer\, and scholar\, Emerita Breslauer and Distinguished Professor\, UCLA\, who has written and published widely on topics related to visual forms of knowledge production\, the historiography of the alphabet\, experimental visual poetry\, art history\, and other topics. Her recent titles include Affluvia: The Toxic Off-Gassing of Affluent Culture (Bridge Books\, 2025)\, Inventing the Alphabet (University of Chicago Press\, 2022)\, and Iliazd: Meta-Biography of a Modernist (Hopkins University Press (2020).
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/artists-books/
LOCATION:Shambaugh Auditorium\, University of Iowa Main Library\, 125 W Washington St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52242\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:John Warner – Only Humans Write: Why You Shouldn’t Outsource Your Humanity to ChatGPT
DESCRIPTION:John Warner\, author of More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI believes there are important distinctions to be made between the writing of humans and the syntax generation of large language models like ChatGPT. These distinctions are at the root of what he believes we should value\, the fact that human communication comes from our “unique intelligences” and that humans are not reducible to patterns and predictions. In this presentation he will talk about how to navigate the tensions that generative AI has introduced into our schools\, workplaces\, and lives in order to preserve essential and meaningful experiences related to our deepest human selves. \nIn the book\, Warner argues that generative AI programs like ChatGPT not only can kill the student essay but should\, since these assignments don’t challenge students to do the real work of writing. To Warner\, writing is thinking—discovering your ideas while trying to capture them on a page—and feeling—grappling with what it fundamentally means to be human. The fact that we ask students to complete so many assignments that a machine could do is a sign that something has gone very wrong with writing instruction. More Than Words calls for us to use AI as an opportunity to reckon with how we work with words—and how all of us should rethink our relationship with writing. \nThis event will be livestreamed and archived at the Iowa City Public Library’s YouTube channel. \n  \nCo-Presented by the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication \n \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/john-warner/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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