Mailia is a book about a conversation between a human and a machine, and the power of hybrid poetry, enhanced by AI. Who the hell is better? A human, a machine? I believe that both contribute individually, and there is no longer any separation between a human and a machine. Welcome to the hybrid world!
A dozen years ago, I released Mailia, open-source software designed to be used to answer personal emails. The software, of course, was not meant to be perfect but rather provocative, and deep in my heart, I was expecting someone to notice it and to continue… developing it. To my knowledge, it has not been developed further, but it has been noticed. And noticed in an unexpected way.
This book includes Mailia software, which was released a dozen years ago, and along with it, the README file, including the concept of the project, the INSTALL instructions for installing the software on a personal server, and the GoogleSearch.wsdl file, an instruction file for the Google search engine. The book also includes part of the feedback-loop thread of emails from the Rhizome mailing list and the text about the Mailia project, written by me in 2016.
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Title: Mailia
Author: Mindaugas Gapševičius
Hardcover
Pages: 240
Copy Editor: Elizabeth McTernan
Designer: Brigita Kasperaitė
Print Run: 200
ISBN: 978-609-96084-1-9
Mailia, 2006, http://www.triple-double-u.com/mailia/
© mi_ga, 2006
© Mindaugas Gapševičius, 2019
© Institutio Media, 2019
Printer: REPRO, Kaunas, Lithuania
Publisher: Institutio Media
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