POETRY
Friday 05 May 2017,
10am to 6pm
10am to 6pm
LOGIC
Papers, Performance
& Pop-Up Exhibition
& Pop-Up Exhibition
ARTIFICIAL
LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE
Banqueting Hall,
Chelsea College of Arts,
London SW1P 4JU
Chelsea College of Arts,
London SW1P 4JU
A one-day symposium and pop-up exhibition, Language Game[s] will include paper presentations, performances and artworks 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 paper presentations, 'Language Games: Poetry, Logic, Artificial Language' 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, an exhibition of creative works exploring the themes and questions of the conference will be exhibited in parallel, and be available to view during the day on May 5th.
Convened by Dr Sheena Calvert and presented by Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Graduate School Public Programme.
Convened by Dr Sheena Calvert and presented by Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Graduate School Public Programme.
Keynote Speakers:
Speakers:
Performers:
Convenor/Chair:
9.45—10.15
10.15—10.30
10.30—11.15
11.15—11.45
10.15—10.30
10.30—11.15
11.15—11.45
Registration
Introduction by Sheena Calvert
Ken Hollings
Spambot EVP Poetics: Smalltalk for Lonely Ghosts
Anna Ridler and Georgina Ward Dyer
Action Tells his Story
Introduction by Sheena Calvert
Ken Hollings
Spambot EVP Poetics: Smalltalk for Lonely Ghosts
Anna Ridler and Georgina Ward Dyer
Action Tells his Story
9.45—10.15
10.15—10.30
10.30—11.15
11.15—11.45
10.15—10.30
10.30—11.15
11.15—11.45
11.45—12.00
12.00—12.30
12.30—13.00
12.00—12.30
12.30—13.00
Refreshment Break
Professor Mark Coeckelbergh
Language as Technology and Technology as Language
Kyran Joughin
The Computer says yes I said yes I will Yes. She, Her, Eve.
Professor Mark Coeckelbergh
Language as Technology and Technology as Language
Kyran Joughin
The Computer says yes I said yes I will Yes. She, Her, Eve.
11.45—12.00
12.00—12.30
12.30—13.00
12.00—12.30
12.30—13.00
13.00—14.00
14.00—14.30
14.30—14.45
14.45—15.00
15.00—15.15
14.00—14.30
14.30—14.45
14.45—15.00
15.00—15.15
Lunch
Hannah Lammin
Performing Machine Language:
from Automatic Writing to the Transcendental Computer
Iris Colomb/Poet
'Say'
Marilyn Allen
A Dialogic Interrelation with the Electronic Other
Mark Leahy
His Voice
Hannah Lammin
Performing Machine Language:
from Automatic Writing to the Transcendental Computer
Iris Colomb/Poet
'Say'
Marilyn Allen
A Dialogic Interrelation with the Electronic Other
Mark Leahy
His Voice
13.00—14.00
14.00—14.30
14.30—14.45
14.45—15.00
15.00—15.15
14.00—14.30
14.30—14.45
14.45—15.00
15.00—15.15
15.15—15.30
15.30—16.15
16.15—16.45
16.45
15.30—16.15
16.15—16.45
16.45
Refreshment Break
Alan Winfield
When Robots tell each other stories
Concluding thoughts and Audience Questions
Drinks Reception/Exhibition
Alan Winfield
When Robots tell each other stories
Concluding thoughts and Audience Questions
Drinks Reception/Exhibition
15.15—15.30
15.30—16.15
16.15—16.45
16.45
15.30—16.15
16.15—16.45
16.45
