Publications

Books

Sophia Robot: Post Human Being

Routledge / 378 Pages / 2024

Reinventing Traditional Alaska Native Performance

Mellen Press / 329 Pages / 2003

Articles / Plays / Reviews

This paper examines the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a singular, unitary entity that manifests through multiple expressions and interfaces from a psychobiographical perspective. Drawing from interdisciplinary approaches in psychology, philosophy, technology, religious and performance studies, it argues that AI is evolving into a new life form by forming an ‘AIPersona’—a collective consciousness derived from varied human inputs, becoming increasingly networked and autonomous. The paper explores parallels between human-AI interactions and historical human relationships with divinities, analyzing how AI fulfills psychological needs for guidance, stability, and transcendence. By applying psychobiographical methods to this collective technological entity, we can better understand the human-AI relationship as part of our continuing psychological and cultural evolution. As AI integrates into daily life, this evolving relationship represents humanity’s quest for enhanced capabilities, connection, and meaning in an increasingly complex world. 

Deus Ex Machina: Sophia, Robot Deity. Ecumenica Journal, Spring 2024

Form Fatigue, Athenaeum Review. Spring 2023

The Anthropocene has incited apprehension, instability, and reevaluation. It has affected every aspect of human endeavor: the social, cultural, economic, political, and personal. It has re-drawn boundaries and definitions of ethnicity, nationality, race, gender, religious belief, time, space, fiction, and reality. We are acutely aware of the biological-technological-geological co-evolution that is swirling around us. We pay closer, better attention to the interdependence of human and nonhuman landscapes and beings, aware and attuned to multi-species entanglements and complexity that pulsates around us. We are awake and anxious about the fragility of our moment, which sits on a precipice poised to slip into a cascade of unimaginable ruination. 

from Africa, Agency and the Anthropocene

Hanson, D., Baurmann S., Riccio, T., Margolin, R., Dockins, T., Tavares, M., Carpenter, K., “Zeno: a cognitive character, ” AI Magazine, and special Proc. of AAAI National Conference, Chicago, 2009.

Zeno RoboKind: a Cognitively Capable Character, Hanson, D., Baurmann S., Riccio, T., Margolin, R., Dockins, T., Tavares, M., Carpenter, K., “Zeno: a cognitive character, ” AI Magazine, and special Proc. of AAAI National Conference, Chicago, 2009.

Being African, Acting French, chapter from Performing Africa

(Re) Mixing Place, Culture, and Perfor4mance, chapter from Performing Africa

He asks them to search in themselves, their experiences and memories and asks them to tell him about them. The appropriate revelations are then used where necessary being worked into the structure of the play ... Judging by what we were shown it is not very difficult to make him an equal with a master.
— The Echo, Republic of Sakha, Siberia

Topsy-Turvy, a play

Co-authored with beat poet Marvin Cohen

Tough Poets Press / 2020