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Making-with: Nonhuman Animal Inclusivity in an Electronic Literature Practice

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This paper reports on the early phases of a creative research project that aims to investigate ways in which a digital creative writing practices can incorporate domesticated dog co-creators in morally justifiable ways. I use a digital writing practice as an example that may allow dogs to help us to 'write' works of Electronic Literature. This practice-led research culminates from a series of interpersonal relationships with family pet dogs, in which the relationships between human creative practitioner and canine challenged the nature of the human creative process. By using a digitally generative system, dog/human interactions and worldings were invited to lead creative writing outcomes. The digital interfaces that resulted from this study, known cumulatively as the Intra-Facing project, aim to suggest ways in which digital writing practitioners can approach dog/human writing and creation processes as acts of bodily interaction, worlding and place-making.

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ACI '20: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction
November 2020
163 pages
ISBN:9781450375740
DOI:10.1145/3446002
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  1. Creative practice
  2. animal-computer interaction
  3. companion animals
  4. digital poetry
  5. dogs
  6. electronic literature
  7. feminist studies
  8. games, text
  9. interactive art
  10. mobile gaming
  11. writing

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ACI'2020: Seventh International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction
November 10 - 12, 2020
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

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