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Ross Goodwin is a data poet, an artist, creative technologist, hacker, gonzo data scientist, and a former White House ghostwriter. Goodwin employs machine learning, natural language processing (NLP) & generation (NLG), physical computing, and other technologies to realize new forms and interfaces for writing.

Goodwin’s projects and collaborations have earned international attention: from word.camera, a camera that expressively narrates its photographs in real time using artificial neural networks (web app + installations, 2015-present), to SUNSPRING, the world's first film created from an AI-written screenplay (2016 short film, directed by Oscar Sharp, starring Thomas Middleditch); from making London’s Trafalgar Square lions roar poetry (2018, Please Feed The Lions with Es Devlin), to writing a novel with a car (2017-2018, 1 the Road), to co-creating the lyrics for the Grammy-nominated album Chain Tripping by YACHT.

Working outside traditional arts funding models, Goodwin has received sponsorship from large technology companies like Google and AT&T, media companies like iHeart and BuzzFeed, news outlets like The Economist and Univision, academic institutions like Teacher’s College at Columbia University, and fashion houses like Rag & Bone. However, Goodwin also has produced significant volumes of indepedent creative work directly from his personal studio: prototyping original ideas rapidly on limited budgets, and sharing results in real time both online and physically.

Although initially pursuing a B.S. degree in Physics starting in 2005-2006, Goodwin's academic journey led him to graduate with a degree in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in May 2009. Following graduation, he held a Presidential Writer position at The White House, where he was responsible for crafting nearly 100 Presidential Proclamations. Transitioning to the U.S. Treasury Department to work on financial regulatory reform, he furthered his skill set by learning computer programming. This eventually led him to specialize in natural language processing, generation, and computational creative writing. Goodwin went on to complete his graduate studies at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in May 2016.

Winner of the 2018 IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling as well as Columbia University's Digital Dozen Breakthroughs in Storytelling Award for 2019, Goodwin has exhibited work &/or spoken at Ars Electronica, London Design Festival, NYC Fashion Week, Sundance Film Festival, Cannes Lions, SXSW, The Barbican, The London Science Museum, The V&A Museum, The Serpentine Galleries, Science Gallery International, the World Economic Forum, TriBeCa Film Festival Interactive Showcase, The International Center of Photography, AT&T Shape, TEDxBoston, MLconf, IDFA DocLab, Vivid Sydney, Phi Centre, Gray Area, The MIT Media Lab, Columbia University Teacher’s College, Zurich University of the Arts, Maker Faire, Future of Storytelling, GitHub Universe, Strange Loop, GOTO Chicago, Series Mania, NeurIPS, STATE Festival, Retune Festival, Molasses Books, and other venues.

Goodwin and his work have been featured in The Atlantic, WIRED [II], Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, The New York Post, Vogue, The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal [II,III], Le Monde [II,III], The London Times, TimeOut, NPR, Marketplace, BBC Culture, CBS News, The Financial Times [II,III], Popular Science, The Irish Times [II,III], El Pais, La Segunda, Het Financieele Dagblad, NewsTalkFM (Ireland), RTE Radio Ireland, CBC Radio Canada [II], ABC Radio Australia, Deutschlandradio, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, The Daily Mail [II,III,IV,V], Ars Technica [II,III], The Verge [II,III], VICE [II,III,IV,V, VI,VII,VIII,IX,X], Usbek & Rica, France Culture [II], Les Échos, Image & Narrative, Le Figaro, Technology Review, Radio Télévision Suisse, canal+, arte, franceinfo, Gizmoto [II,III], Engadget, CNET [II], Forbes, SLATE, FiveThirtyEight, Mental Floss, BOMB Magazine, MSN, Fast Company, Filmmaker Magazine, Dim The House Lights [II,III], The Huffington Post, The Caret, The Art Newspaper (France), Digital Information World [II], AdWeek, Singularity Hub [II], Mashable, Fusion [II,III,IV,V,VI,VII], Quartz, PetaPixel, Cool Hunting, Uses This, A.V. Club, IndieWire, La Repubblica, Der Spiegel, TechCrunch (Japan), Yahoo News, The Korea Times, BoingBoing, Vox, Mic, CineFiles, Bustle, Express (UK), The Mary Sue, The Quint, Futurism, 9 News Australia, International Business Times, BigThink, Digital Spy, Kill Screen, Inquisitr, Inquirer.net, Gear Patrol, Inverse, New Atlas, Collider, HYPEBEAST, The Next Web, The Drive, Sputnik News, comicbook.com, SYFY Wire, BGR, catch news, Silicon Republic, the New York Times Metro Section, and other publications.