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LANGUAGE GAME[S]: POETRY, LANGUAGE AND ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE
10.00 – 18.00, Friday 5 May 2017
Banqueting Hall, Chelsea College of Arts
16 John Islip Street
London SW1P 4JU
A one-day symposium and pop-up exhibition, Language Game[s] will include paper presentations, performances and creative works drawn from the fields of philosophy, artificial intelligence, robotics, science, poetry, linguistics and ‘other’.
Language Game[s] considers the association between language and human consciousness, and how developments in technology might affect this relationship. Language Game[s] proposes to examine the following questions: what is language as a primary human technology, and how are both language and us, being changed due to the rise of artificial/simulated language systems? In short: what is language, when it is no longer made by humans, but by a machine? Can a machine produce poetry in anything but name?
Where does meaning lie in language? Philosophical discourses tend to assume that language is something produced by human beings. Is linguistic meaning supplied by human consciousness, or does it take place in the material act of expression (speech/writing)? If meaning in language resides within ‘the human’ and is an expression of thinking, then what happens when language migrates to machines?
At present, Artificial Language systems (such as Siri and/or Amazon Echo) mimic the forms of human speech, but cannot replicate the cognitive processes which lie behind language. As technology develops and Artificial Language systems become ever more autonomous, how will this affect us?
Alongside academic papers, the day includes a series of presentations by poets and artists, which take a ‘performative' view of the central role of language and its move towards machines/code. In addition, a pop-up exhibition exploring the themes and questions of the symposium will be available to view during the event.
Booking essential.
Full price £10 | Student £6. Ticket includes lunch and a drinks reception.
For speaker bios, abstracts and to book your place visit: http://language-games.co.uk
SCHEDULE:
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09.45-10.15 |
Registration |
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10.15-10.30 |
Introduction by Sheena Calvert |
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10.30-11.15 |
Spambot EVP Poetics: Smalltalk for Lonely Ghosts Ken Hollings (writer, broadcaster and cultural theorist) |
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11.15-11.45 |
Action Tells his Story Anna Ridler and Georgina Ward Dyer (PhD candidates in Information Experience Design at the RCA) |
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11.45-12.00 |
Refreshment Break |
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12.00-12.30 |
Language as Technology and Technology as Language Mark Coeckelberg (Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology, University of Vienna & Professor of Technology and Social Responsibility at De Montfort University, UK. Vice-President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology). |
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12.30-13.00 |
The Computer says yes I said yes I will Yes. She, Her, Eve Kyran Joughin (Lecturer in Film and Critical Practice at Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL) |
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13.00-14.00 |
Lunch |
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14.00-14.30 |
Performing Machine Language: from Automatic Writing to the Transcendental Computer Hannah Lammin (Philosopher and lecturer in Media and Cultural Theory at the University of Greenwich and Camberwell College of Arts, UAL) |
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14.30-14.45 |
‘Say’ Iris Colomb (Poet) |
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14.45-15.00 |
A Dialogic Interrelation with the Electronic Other Marilyn Allen (Lecturer, artist and one half of the collaborative double act ‘matthews and allen’) |
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15.00-15.15 |
His Voice Mark Leahy (writer and artist operating among textual practices and performance) |
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15.15-15.30 |
Refreshment Break |
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15.30-16.15 |
When robots tell each other stories - the emergence of artificial fiction Alan Winfield (Professor of Robot Ethics at the University of the West of England) |
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16.15-16.45 |
Concluding thoughts and Audience Questions |
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16.45-18.00 |
Drinks Reception/Exhibition Viewing |
Convened by Dr Sheena Calvert and presented by Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Graduate School Public Programme.