What is Disruptive Texts?
Disruptive Texts is an independent Canadian publisher based in Guelph, Ontario. It publishes literary, philosophical, conceptual and activist works that challenge established forms, institutional assumptions and conventional ideas about authorship and culture.
What is Jury of Peers?
Jury of Peers: Artists on AI • AI on Art is the inaugural title from Disruptive Texts. The book brings more than eighty artists, critics and theorists into an imagined contemporary hearing on art and artificial intelligence. Drawing on their documented writings and ideas, it considers how they might respond to AI systems capable of producing images.
Is Jury of Peers an AI-generated book?
AI was used in the development of Jury of Peers, within a broader process of human conception, research, direction, selection and editing. It generated responses grounded in the documented perspectives of the artists and theorists represented. The final work emerged through sustained human oversight, editorial judgment and collaborative input.
Who is Chadwick Gepetti?
Chadwick Gepetti is the pen name used to identify ChatGPT as the compiler and interpretive voice of the book. The name gives the work a recognizable authorial identity while also exposing the difficulty of assigning singular authorship to a project created through collaboration among a human director, source material and an artificial intelligence system.
Why use a pen name?
The pen name is part of the book’s conceptual structure. It does not conceal the role of ChatGPT. The book openly identifies Chadwick Gepetti as the name used to attribute the work to the system. The attribution allows the book to operate within familiar publishing conventions while simultaneously examining those conventions.
Are the artists’ statements real quotations?
No. The passages are interpretive reconstructions informed by documented writings, letters, manifestoes, essays, interviews and recorded positions. They are intended to reflect the artists’ established ideas and rhetorical tendencies, not to be mistaken for literal historical quotations. The book clearly explains this distinction.
Did the artists consent to being included?
The book does not claim that the historical or contemporary figures endorsed the project or approved the reconstructed passages. Their published ideas are treated as material for criticism, interpretation and cultural inquiry. The reconstructions are identified as interpretations rather than authenticated statements.
What is the book arguing?
The book does not deliver a single verdict. It examines competing ideas about where art resides: in skill, intention, labour, originality, concept, embodiment, social context, institutional recognition or audience judgment. The disagreements among the assembled figures remain unresolved.
Is the book defending artificial intelligence?
The book includes enthusiasm, skepticism, resistance, uncertainty and conditional acceptance. Its purpose is to stage a serious debate rather than advocate one predetermined position.
Why did Library and Archives Canada initially question eligibility?
The issue concerned Disruptive Texts’ eligibility under the normal criteria for the Cataloguing in Publication program. Library and Archives Canada advised that pen names and pseudonyms are not treated as distinct authors for eligibility purposes. As a result, Disruptive Texts did not fully meet the usual requirements concerning the publication of works by independent authors.
Why was CIP granted?
Library and Archives Canada stated that the text fell outside the traditional publishing model on which its eligibility criteria were based. After consideration, it granted Jury of Peers CIP on an exceptional basis.
Does exceptional CIP mean the book was endorsed by the federal government?
No. CIP is a cataloguing service, not a literary prize, artistic judgment or government endorsement of a book’s arguments. The significance lies in the fact that Library and Archives Canada made a title-specific exception after recognizing that the project fell outside the traditional model anticipated by its criteria.
Does this decision change Canadian CIP policy?
No policy change has been announced. Library and Archives Canada described the approval as a one-time acceptance and stated that it does not guarantee eligibility for future Disruptive Texts publications.
Why is the decision significant?
The decision demonstrates how emerging forms of authorship and publishing can challenge systems designed around more traditional models. For Disruptive Texts, the approval is especially meaningful because the press entered Canada’s national bibliographic infrastructure through a work that directly examines authorship, classification and institutional authority.
Is Disruptive Texts an AI publisher?
Disruptive Texts is NOT limited to artificial intelligence. It publishes unconventional works whose ideas, structures or methods challenge established categories. Some projects may involve AI; others may involve experimental fiction, philosophy, cultural criticism, documentary practice, activism or hybrid forms.
Is Disruptive Texts a self-publishing imprint?
Disruptive Texts is being developed as an independent publishing company with a distinct editorial mandate, publication program, distribution strategy and long-term catalogue. Its purpose extends beyond publishing the work of its founder. The press intends to develop and publish works by additional authors and collaborators whose projects align with its mandate.
Why begin with such an unconventional book?
Jury of Peers demonstrates the publisher’s mandate in practice. It crosses art history, philosophy, technology, criticism and conceptual literature. Its authorship structure challenged existing administrative categories before the book was even published. The inaugural title therefore does more than describe the purpose of Disruptive Texts. It enacts it.
Who is the intended audience?
The book is intended for readers interested in contemporary art, artificial intelligence, philosophy, authorship, cultural criticism, media studies and the changing conditions of creative production.
It may also be relevant to artists, educators, librarians, researchers and students.
How will the book be distributed?
The book will be available Amazon and through Ingram Spark’s distribution network for trade and commercial orders. Libraries, universities, booksellers and reviewers may request further information directly from Disruptive Texts.
When will it be published?
Jury of Peers: Artists on AI • AI on Art is scheduled for publication in September 2026