Join us at The James Joyce Centre for a special Bloomsday Festivallive podcast recording that tries to answer a question that could not be more topical: Could an AI write Ulysses? On Bloomsday, Monday, June 16th at 6.30pm, Kelly BryanandDermot O'Connor of the Blooms & Barnacles Podcast discuss Ulysses through the lens of current generative AI technology. Could a chatbot become the 21st century's James Joyce? Maybe not, but could AI at least help us analyse and understand Joyce's work better? In this discussion, Kelly and Dermot explore the artistic use case for generative AI and what it tells us about the future of creativity and literature. Blooms & Barnacles is a podcast hosted by Kelly Bryan and Dermot O'Connor born out of the desire to prove to the other casual intellectuals out there that not only can you read and understand Ulysses, it can also be fun. There is a sense of dread or failure often attached to the name Ulysses: an unfinished phantom mocking you from your bookcase. It's a novel we pick up hopefully and set down dejectedly. It's long, it's obtuse, and it doesn't love you or care about you. It carries with it the stink of failure for the casually intellectual among us. Inspired by the UlyssesSupport Group (a.k.a. Book Club) at Portland, Oregon's T.C. O'Leary's Irish Pub, Blooms & Barnacles hope to create an entertaining companion for anyone making their way through Joyce's masterpiece. Kelly Byran is a founding member of T.C. O'Leary's Ulysses Support Group (a.k.a. Book Club). Together, the Support Group read the entirety of Ulysses out loud from Bloomsday 2017 to Bloomsday 2018. She has never really stopped reading Ulysses since then. She does not have an English degree. She has failed to be accepted to Ph.D. programs twice and decided to just write this dang blog instead. Kelly lives in the west of Ireland with her husband, Dermot. Dermot O'Connor is the titular ‘angry animator’ of his animation blog. He provides cartoons and sketches for the blog and is the Barnacle to Kelly’s Bloom. He has never read Ulysses but has enjoyed reading passages from it on occasion. He is currently attempting to dissuade Kelly from reading Finnegans Wake. Tickets are €10. The Bloomsday Festival is organised by The James Joyce Centre in partnership with Fáilte Ireland, Olhausen’s Sausages, and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

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