Mission Statement

Broadly, my research is concerned with the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Arts. I am curious how AI augments, hinders, and challenges our conception of the creative process. Specifically I work with artists to devise new conceptual metaphors for AI in order to establish productive AI co-creative dynamics and interrogate AI's usage. I run workshops to prepare arts organizations for the increasing reach of Generative AI and help them find ways they can approrpiately resist or enlist AI in their work. I create new AI co-creative systems and installation artworks, run workshops, and perform ethnographic studies in order to explore this agenda.

My dissertation at the University of Toronto is concerned with how Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT will affect North American literature. Pulling from my background as a working literary novelist, I aim to understand how LLMs are changing reader's relationship with language, disrupting writer's of creative agency and ownership, and enabling the creation of new literary possibilities.

Publications

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Conference Papers

1. The Unseen Landscape of Abolitionsm: Examing the Role of Digital Maps in Grassroots

Dashiel Carrera, Ufuoma Ovienmhada, Safa Hussein, Robert Soden

CSCW 2023

2. "We're Not Decorators": Fostering Interdisciplinary Exchange in STEM-Artist Collaborations

Dashiel Carrera, Gitanjali Bhattacharjee, Robert Soden

DIS 2023

3. Watch Me Write: Exploring the Effects of Revealing Creative Writing Process through Writing Replay

Dashiel Carrera, Sang Won Lee

Creativity & Cognition 2022

Journal Papers

1. Afrofuturist Intellectual Mixtapes: A Classroom Case Study

Tyechia Thompson, Dashiel Carrera

Digital Humanities Quarterly 2021

Workshop Papers and Abstracts

1. Expressive HCXAI: An Art-Science Design Framework for Ethical and Usable AI System

Dashiel Carrera

CHI 2023 HCXAI Workshop

2. Beyond Intelligence: Finding New Metaphors of AI through a Collaborative Workshop with Artists and Scholars

Dashiel Carrera, Daniel Wigdor, Robert Soden

DIS 2023 Workshop

3. Elementary Paper Animatronics

Paul Dietz, Dashiel Carrera, Jenifer Gienr Alford, Abbie Cornelius,KayBrockman, Daniel Wigdor

ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Workshop

4. Roadmap to Abolition: A Counter-mapping Project to Advance Understanding of the Theory and Practice of Abolition

Dashiel Carrera

ELO2019: Electronic Literature Organization Conference & Media Arts Fesival Programme and Book of Abstracts

5. The Deer

Dashiel Carrera

ELO2019: Electronic Literature Organization Conference & Media Arts Fesival Programme and Book of Abstracts