Ross Goodwin is a data poet and creative technologist who uses machine learning, natural language processing and physical computing to build new tools and interfaces for writing. He trained in economics at MIT and later worked as a White House ghostwriter, drafting close to 100 presidential proclamations, before turning to computational creative writing full time.
In 2015 he began word.camera, a camera that narrates its own photographs in real time using neural networks, first as a web app and later as physical installations. That year he also began publishing the essay series “Adventures in Narrated Reality”, reflecting on human-machine creative collaboration, work that the artist Merzmensch later cited as pivotal to his own understanding of generative AI art. The following year he built an AI bot named Benjamin to write the script for Sunspring, directed by Oscar Sharp for the SCI-FI-LONDON 48 Hour Film Challenge and released by Ars Technica in June 2016 as the world's first film made from an AI-written screenplay.
