User:Alessia/AI Poetry authorship zine

theme

Authorship is the main concept I would like to focus for my project

other concepts:

• financial system
• capitalism
• copyright law
• power
• ownership
• stealing
• language - tech trend - flattening
• computational infrastructure
• collaborativity
• cloud model as business model
• author - poet as author
• AI as author
• data model/algorithm as author

My hypothesis

Authorship is an important financial system for people working in the creative field. Right now this system is crumbling, a process that is speeded up by AI. It is clear that something massive is happening. An artist, as an individual is losing their power to survive this transitionary period, it will be painful.
Authorship is also an important framework in the creative industry for creating the figure of the individual (genius) artist.
Throughout history the figure of the artist has never being a monolith. Copyright is a modern product of our societal system.

main points: - authorship that helps the industry to create the figure of the artist
- authorship is a financial system

Why this project?

Some artists may find copyright infringements acceptable, because they feel that change is coming in a way or another. Artists often rely on copyright as their primary protection, even when the system frequently fails them anyway. The art and creative industries are increasingly being defunded and privatised, leaving artists struggling. In the future, will copyright still matter if the concept of ownership itself shifts, because of a societal desire to escape hyper individualism and by a growing awareness of how corporation exploits our data?

Questions to ask

how did authorship shape your practice?
Who is the author of your work?
is the algorithm an author?
do you own your work?
do you have authorship of the text generated for you? (for artists that engage with ai in a creative collaborative - way)
did you ever sell your authorship?
how do you quote someone else's work?
did you ever steal from someone else?

how does authorship generates income for your?
what is your experience with publishers and arranging agreements around intellectual property?
what would you like to change in the publishing system of selling your work?

how does authorship make you and individual poet? What does that mean to you?
how do you understand collective authorship?
if we understand ai as a form of collective authorship (based on extractive cloud business models) what does that mean to the poems it generates?
did you ever publish something collectively?
where would poets be in the future?
where would you like to be?
how could poets escape to be an individual creator?
how could poets reposition themselves in society?
would you like to reposition yourself in society?
are you doing it already?

People to ask them

✔︎ Dan Power. A poet, and founding editor of Trickhouse Press and the AI Literary Review. PhD student of creative writing

✔︎⏳ Alex Mazey. A researcher and writer. He won the Judge’s Prize in the Magma Poetry Competition in 2025, a Creative Future Writers’ Award in 2019, and the Roy Fisher Prize from Keele University in 2018. Sociology and postmodern theory are his tea. He is the author of Sad Boy Aesthetics (2021) and Living in Disneyland (2020). His debut poetry collection, Ghost Lives: Cursed Edition, was published in 2024.

✔︎⏳ Gabriela Milkova Robins. Macedonian poet based in Scotland, PhD researcher. She enjoys using a variety of artistic media, visual art and music, to write her poetry.

✔︎⏳ Femke Sterling. Artist and designer. She might not need an introduction here! She develops projects at the intersection of publishing, trans*feminism, and Free Software. As cc4r and cc2r captured my attention I am looking forward to find out more about the projects.

✉ Lucy Hulton. PhD creative writing student at Salford. She won the Leanne Bridgewater Award (2021) and she was shoerlisted for the Streetcake Experimental Poetry Awards (2020).

✉ Maria Slendmere (she/they). Is an academic, artist, educator and editor. The author of over twenty books, they have a Doctorate of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow (2022), following an MA in English Literature (2015) and MLitt in Modernities (2017). Maria researches poetry, theory, fiction and hybrid writing, and practices hypercritique.

Other supporting material I want to add

experience at the <https://vvvvvvaria.org/en/tag/poetics.html Poetics of Computing at Varia>