Ross Goodwin

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About Ross Goodwin

Ross Goodwin Dot Com ross.goodwin@gmail.com (txt.substack.com) Ross Goodwin is a data poet, an artist, creative technologist, hacker, gonzo data scientist, and a former White House ghostwriter. Goodwin employs machine learning, natural language processing (NLP) & generation (NLG), physical computing, and other technologies to realize new forms and interfaces for writing. Goodwin’s projects and collaborations have earned international attention: from word.camera, a camera that expressively narrates its photographs in real time using artificial neural networks (web app + installations, 2015-present), to SUNSPRING, the world's first film created from an AI-written screenplay (2016 short film, directed by Oscar Sharp, starring Thomas Middleditch); from making London’s Trafalgar Square lions roar poetry (2018, Please Feed The Lions with Es Devlin), to writing a novel with a car (2017-2018, 1 the Road), to co-creating the lyrics for the Grammy-nominated album Chain Tripping by YACHT. Working outside traditional arts funding models, Goodwin has received sponsorship from large technology companies like Google and AT & T, media companies like iHeart and BuzzFeed, news outlets like The Economist and Univision, academic institutions like Teacher’s College at Columbia University, and fashion houses like Rag & Bone. However, Goodwin also has produced significant volumes of indepedent creative work directly from his personal studio: prototyping original ideas rapidly on limited budgets, and sharing results in real time both online and physically.