1 the Road
<p><em>1 the Road</em> is a book written using a car as a pen.</p> <p>Ross Goodwin is not a poet. As a prominent Artificial Intelligence creator, he outfitted a Cadillac car with a surveillance camera, a GPS unit, a microphone and a clock, all connected to a portable AI-writing- machine that fed from these input data in real time. Together, they traveled from New York to New Orleans, in an experimental automation of the American literary road trip. As they drove, a manuscript emerged line by line from the machine’s printer on long scrolls of receipt paper that filled the car’s rear seats over the course of their journey.</p> <p>Rooted in the traditions of American literature, in gonzo journalism and in the latest researches in Artificial Neural Networks, <em>1 the Road</em> imposes a new reflexion on the place and authority of the author in the era of machines.</p>
Authors: Ross Goodwin
Contributors: K Allado-McDowell
Editors: David Desrimais, Mathieu Cénac
Editorial Coordinator: Léa Lamy
Designers: Joanna Starck
Translators: Hélène Planquelle