Artificial Extinction Archives
Machine Learning for Ecological Mourning
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 19227970 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Alinta Krauth (0000-0002-6523-3417, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2026 |
| Volumen | 12 |
| Número | 1 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2026-05-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Open Library of Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 2056-6700 • E-ISSN: 2056-6700 |
| Editorial | Open Library of Humanities (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.16995/olh.28709 |
| OpenAlex | W7161757670 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 23 |
This article examines how algorithmic and machine-learning–based creative practices can offer new modes for narrating, and mourning, species extinction in the Anthropocene. To do so, I conduct a creative-practice–led analysis of the Artificial Extinction Archives (AEA): a new media artwork wherein a TensorFlow audio model has been trained to recognize the audio vocalizations of fifteen extinct or likely extinct bird species. I argue that computational media can make perceptible the haunting presence of lost species by staging encounters with fragmented translations of these vocalizations. The AEA produces partial, poetic textual apparitions when contemporary environmental sounds partially resemble archived recordings. This intentional incompleteness highlights the unnarratability of extinction, which is a vast, multispecies, multi-scalar process, and aligns the work with post-classical narratology, where narrative becomes fragmented and cognitively co-created by readers. Drawing on extinction studies, material ecocriticism, and computational narratology, I argue that fragmented, combinatory, algorithmic narrative and poetry forms can reflect the discontinuities and absences that structure ecological loss. I further argue that the act of making such an artwork constitutes a form of ecological mourning in itself
Artificial neural network · Ectotherm · Extinction (optical mineralogy) · Feature (linguistics) · Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies
What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?
Narrating the Mesh
Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene
The Wake of Crows
Ecological grief as a mental health response to climate change-related loss
The Ecological Poetics of Deborah Bird Rose
Toward an Ethological Poetics
In Search of Lost Snails
The medicalization of Nonhuman Animal rights
Mourning, Identity, Creativity
Material Ecocriticism
Animals as Biotechnology
Narrative Tectonics
Loss, Bereavement and Creativity
Pet Grief
Lively Ethography
Animal Cultures at the Edge of Extinction
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |