Alicia Guo is a computational poet, artist, and human-computer interaction researcher working to reimagine and redesign our relationships with creative technology. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Washington, working in creativity support tools, the processes behind creative uses of AI, and how creatives can create their own tools.

Across websites, performances, writing systems, physical installations, and participatory experiments, she is interested in technologies that are alive to process: things that change, decay, invite response, or reveal the traces of how they were made. She creates poetic instruments that invite participation: artifacts that create artifacts that create artifacts. Her research is rooted in her art and writing practice, and often begins from questions of who gets to shape a system? What kinds of creative labor become visible or invisible? How do tools change what we notice? What would it mean for computation to support the creative process as lived by the creator? What are alternative futures to creative technology aside from the ones we've been given?

Her computational poetry has appeared in online magazines such as The HTML Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Taper, Ensemble Park, and Graywolf Lab. Her installations have been shown in exhibitions including Vector Festival, Fidget Camp, and Seattle Creative Code. She has given talks, readings, and workshops at the Electronic Literature Organization Conference, tiat, Causal Islands, XOXO, !!Con, DWeb Camp, Lit Crawl San Francisco, and with If, Then Technology and Poetics. Her research has been published and presented at CHI and Creativity & Cognition.

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