Ross Goodwin is an artist, creative technologist, hacker, data scientist, and former White House ghostwriter. He employs machine learning, natural language processing, and other computational tools to realize new forms and interfaces for written language. From word.camera, a camera that expressively narrates its photographs in real time using artificial neural networks, to SUNSPRING (with Oscar Sharp, starring Thomas Middleditch), the world’s first film created from an AI-written screenplay; from making London’s Trafalgar Square lions roar poetry (“Please Feed The Lions” with Es Devlin), to writing a novel with a car (1 the Road), Goodwin’s projects and collaborations have earned international acclaim. Winner of the 2018 IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling as well as Columbia University’s Digital Dozen Breakthroughs in Storytelling Award for 2019, he earned his undergraduate degree in Economics from MIT in 2009, and his graduate degree from NYU ITP in May 2016.
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Ross Goodwin
LOOK AT THIS MOMENT
IN A NOVEL WE WANT VERISIMILITUDE
YOU SPEND YOUR TURN (TO OTHER THINGS)
LIKE CHAMPAGNE
CHARTREUSE
THE ALCHEMIST
THINGS THAT HAPPEN THAT DON’T HAPPEN TO OTHER PEOPLE
CHAISE
A CONTRARY DESIRE
LIKE A MAHARAJAH
SONG TO A CHAIR
I LIKE AUTUMN FOR NO REASON AT ALL
A VILLANELLE OF COINCIDENCE
WITHIN THE ZINFANDEL
WHEN WE RETURN TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNINGS
I LOVE YOU TO THE DEATH OF ME
