
Mark Marino
Mark C. Marino is a Professor (Teaching) of Writing at the University of Southern California, where he directs the Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab where he is a Generative AI Fellow. Since 2008, he has been the Director of Communication of the Electronic Literature Organization (https://eliterature.org). His works include “Living Will,” “a show of hands,” and “Marginalia in the Library of Babel.” He was one of ten co-authors of 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (https://10print.org) (2013) and was a collaborator with Jessica Pressman and Jeremy Douglass on Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone’s Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit} (I2015). His latest books are Critical Code Studies (2020) https://criticalcodestudies.com and Hallucinate This! an authoritized autobotography of ChatGPT (2023) https://bit.ly/halthis. He is one of the authors of the forthcoming book Inventing ELIZA (MIT 2026) about the first chatbot.
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