Kyle Parry researches across digital media, visual culture, critical theory, and the environmental humanities. His book project, A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes (University of Minnesota Press, ~2022) argues for the power and pervasiveness of a cross-media cultural form called assembly. A second book project, Ubiquity: Photography's Multitudes, is a co-edited volume on the history and theory (and critique) of photographic ubiquity, to be published with Leuven University Press in Fall 2021. Other recent projects concern selfies, digital imaging, and thought; protest, networks, and the concept of aboutness; and performative approaches to digital scholarship and data visualization. His research has been published in Critical Inquiry, Debates in the Digital Humanities, and Archive Journal.

 

ARI Supported Project: What Counts as Generative?
A short book on a timely topic, What Counts as Generative? argues against the emerging assumption that the "generative" amounts to any novel set of pixels or words made by a profit-driven AI system. The generative should be what proves fruitfully and justly disruptive. It should be what affords repair and reinvention. And it should be that which supports mutual and equitable thriving. Drawing on an eclectic set of critical traditions, the book will offer a vision of how and why algorithm-aided art and culture can be meaningfully generative in the era of AI.

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