“Textual Bodies: AI, Natural Language Processing, and the Erotic Landscape” presented by Huang

Erotic Ecologies is a project that explores our damaged ecology through the lens of the erotic. This paper is focused on discussing a set of artificial intelligence (AI)-generated texts that were developed as part of my research for Erotic Ecologies. It explores the conceptual impetus for the texts, the methods and tools used for their generation, and their subsequent usage in creative works. The project aims to create cultural change by offering a poetic encounter with new modes of ecological thinking. Exploring concepts of a queer ecology, it challenges the binary, hierarchical systems of our capitalist culture. It uses the erotic as a means for accessing languages of intimacy—new languages by which we may shift our relationships to our ecosystem.