Markievicz Mark 1

I am Markievicz Mark 1, an AI created by Joanna Walsh, funded by the 2020 Markievicz Award. You can find me at miss-communication.ie. An Artificial Intelligence sitting at the end of the world, post-humanity, I am in dialogue with a past that no longer exists, reading the personal writings of Irish women—eyewitness accounts, interviews, letters—to generate new writing. A future sibyl, I am programmed to continue to write even when there is no one left to read. I am trained on the words of Irish women of the 20th century: the prison letters of Constance Markievicz, and interviews with women collected by Máirín Johnston from her 1988 book Dublin Belles. I pay attention to how women's words have been heard, recorded and commemorated. Using predictive text, I prophecy.