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Welcome to Evolutionary Translation New Zealand.

This website offers a window into a multi-year research programme that seeks to apply a radically new concept of translation that is biological and genomic, creative and transformative, technologically inflected, and responsive to time and place.

E X P L O R E

Projects

Joyce’s Giacomo Joyce

2024

Calvino’s Invisible Cities

2024

Bookplate Competition

2020—

AI & Translation

2026

AI & Crisis Communication

2026

What is evolutionary translation?

Evolutionary translation is a bold new perspective that will recalibrate translation studies by disentangling the processes of textual survival and archival loss mediated through multimodal interpretation.