2025-2026 Ways to Meet AI
Explore past events from the Ways to Meet AI series.
The Studio for Literary Technology brings together writers, artists, scholars and technologists to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping literature, language and creative practice.
With/Against AI: Creativity, Ethics, and the Future of Writers Writing
October 9, 2025 | 2115 Tawes Hall
The Studio for Literary Technology at UMD presented With/Against AI: Creativity, Ethics, and the Future of Writers Writing, featuring poet, artist and AI researcher Sasha Stiles.
Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, artist and AI researcher whose work bridges tradition and innovation through hybrid poetics, generative imagination and collaborative intelligence.
Her transmedia practice reframes poetry as both art and technology — a means of encoding human experience across space and time — and blends word, image and algorithm to explore the role of human voice in a digital age.
Surfing the Model: Writing With an LLM
February 12, 2026 | 2115 Tawes Hall
The Studio for Literary Technology at UMD presented an insightful lecture and conversation on what LLMs mean for writing, featuring Dr. Hannes Bajohr of Berkeley and Dr. Matthew Kirschenbaum of UVA.
Bajohr’s research focuses on 20th-century German thought, theories of the digital, and writing and AI.
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
March 10, 2026 | Ulrich Recital Hall
Acclaimed author Vauhini Vara, author of "The Immortal King Rao" and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, explored the relationship between technology, identity and human connection.
"Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age" offered a personal exploration of how technology companies have both fulfilled and exploited the human desire for understanding and connection.
Building the Strange Choir: Fine-Tuning LLMs Through Conceptual Poetry and Found Text
April 22–23, 2026 | BCAT Lab
The Studio for Literary Technology at UMD presented Building the Strange Choir: Fine-Tuning LLMs Through Conceptual Poetry and Found Text, a two-workshop series with Halim Madi.
Madi is a Lebanese artist, technologist and writer based in San Francisco. His work spans electronic literature, computational poetics and live AI performance. He is the creator of the Singulars series, live performances where poets and AI systems co-create with real-time audience participation.
He is currently an AI Strategy Lead at Wikitongues.org, building AI tutors to help preserve and revitalize endangered languages.