Do Androids Dream? | Ethical Machine Learning for Writing Surrealist Poetry

Do Androids Dream? | Ethically Using Machine Learning for Writing Surrealist Poetry

Sunday, 11/16/2025 - at the Public Art Futures Lab in Underground Atlanta

88 Lower Alabama Street, Atlanta, GA 30303

See below for detailed directions

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Doors open: 11AM

Artist Talk & Workshop: 11:15AM - 1PM

Hosted by: Public Art Futures Lab + Fulton County Arts & Culture

Location: Public Art Futures Lab – 88 Lower Alabama Street, Atlanta, GA 30303

Format: Hybrid (In-Person & Virtual)

VIRTUAL ZOOM LINK: https://zoom.us/j/94816135443

Free with RSVP

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Description: Step into the hum of the algorithmic subconscious. In this workshop, poet and researcher Jay Morris invites participants to wander through the fog where code dreams in metaphors and machines murmur in verse. Together, we’ll trace surrealism’s ancestry, from automatic writing to the neural networks of now, asking what happens when ethics, imagination, and circuitry intertwine. Expect to write, to prompt, to conjure language that thinks for itself, and to listen for the moment when the poem begins to dream you back.

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How to Find Us:The Public Art Futures Lab (Underground Atlanta, 88 Lower Alabama Street, Atlanta, GA 30303). You can't see our space from the street. A simple way to find us is by using the following street level address as your starting point (50 Upper Alabama St, Atlanta, GA 30303)

Look for the Underground Atlanta signage and follow it to multiple open-air stairways leading down to the courtyard. Once in the courtyard, look for the row of glass doors, use the far-right entrance glass door. You’ll see the Public Art Futures Lab directly ahead, and restrooms are located to the right of the space.

If you require ADA assistance to access our space, please email Kathleen.Brown@fultoncountyga.gov. Or call 770-829-7282 for security to direct you to the ADA elevator on Upper Alabama Street across from the Connally Hotel.

Parking: There is street parking along Pryor Street and Peachtree Street SW and several paid parking decks and parking lots nearby on Wall Street. We suggest carpooling, using a rideshare or using MARTA Five Points Station to reach us. Please check MARTA's schedule for up to date rider information

MARTA Construction at Five Points Station: The Peachtree Street Entrance and Exit of the Five Points Station is closed for renovations. To get to Underground and the Public ARt Futures Lab leave from the Forsyth Exit of the Five Points Station and take a left on the sidewalk. Pass the gated construction area and take a left at the first sidewalk. You will see directional signs for finding Underground Atlanta, follow the construction walk around the construction site and you will come out on Peachtree Street where you will cross into Upper Alabama. From there, navigate to the Courtyard Area and take the steps down

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About the Public Art Futures Lab: The Futures Lab is a space to exhibit, experiment, educate and experience the role of technology as it relates to public art. By reducing barriers to creating and participating in this emerging space, the Lab seeks to expand access to cultural enrichment, provide the tools for local artists to thrive and maintain Fulton County's status as a creative cultural capital. The Futures Lab is made possible through the support of our host Underground Atlanta, and our residency partners A&E Atlanta and MARTA Artbound