Gary Hall<p>Really enjoyed the Que(e)rying <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikidata</span></a> workshop with An Mertens and Z. Blace on Thursday - the second part of COPIM’s <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ExperimentalBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExperimentalBooks</span></a> conference. (The third part is on Monday: <a href="https://experimentalbooks.pubpub.org/part3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">experimentalbooks.pubpub.org/p</span><span class="invisible">art3</span></a>)</p><p>An is part of Anaïs Berck. Since 2019, this pseudonym has been used to refer to a collaboration between humans, algorithms and trees. By combining human, plant and artificial intelligences, the Anaïs Berck collective crafts narratives that position trees at the centre of its work while simultaneously decentering the perspective of humans.</p><p><a href="https://algoliterarypublishing.net/pages/about.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">algoliterarypublishing.net/pag</span><span class="invisible">es/about.html</span></a></p><p>Anaïs Berck’s experimental algoliterary book Paseo por arboles de madrid, for example, employs the Markov Chain algorithm to create both a poem and a tour of the trees in the Las Letras neighborhood, which is located in the heart of Madrid</p><p><a href="https://algoliterarypublishing.net/paseo-por-arboles-de-madrid.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">algoliterarypublishing.net/pas</span><span class="invisible">eo-por-arboles-de-madrid.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OAbooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OAbooks</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/posthumanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>posthumanism</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/trees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trees</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ExperimentalBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExperimentalBooks</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/COPIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COPIM</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/madrid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>madrid</span></a></p>