Abstract
ABSTRACT This article analyses the digital work Evolution, designed to generate poetry mimicking its creator, Johannes Heldén. Created together with programmer Håkan Jonson, Evolution is, according to its abstract, made to replace the human author Heldén, making him redundant. The aim of this article is to examine how Evolution problematises the role of the author and the creative process in a current and future technological landscape. While previous research has focused primarily on medial and technical aspects of the work, this article employs an analysis of the conceptual aspects and focuses on the role of Evolution’s abstract in relation to the generative poetry and how the work navigates the dichotomies analogue/digital, as well as text/paratext. Through the lens of narratology, the article argues that Evolution engages in speculative worldbuilding, especially through the introduction of thought experiments in the abstract. Consequently, Evolution becomes a work of science fiction, posing rhetorical questions that impel the reader to think about the role of artificial intelligence in creativity.
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