Comments on: “Hot Bot” Redux http://grandtextauto.org/2004/04/12/hot-bot-redux/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: networked_performance http://grandtextauto.org/2004/04/12/hot-bot-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-1950 networked_performance Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:20:19 +0000 /?p=298#comment-1950 <trackback /><strong>Global Interface</strong> Interface at Critical Mark Marino (of the Barthian and bachelor bots) sends word of Global Interface, a yearlong, interdisciplinary workshop on cyberculture that is just starting up with a talk from Kate Hayles on Monday, Oct 4. Meatspace meetings will... Global Interface
Interface at Critical Mark Marino (of the Barthian and bachelor bots) sends word of Global Interface, a yearlong, interdisciplinary workshop on cyberculture that is just starting up with a talk from Kate Hayles on Monday, Oct 4. Meatspace meetings will…

]]> By: Mark Marino http://grandtextauto.org/2004/04/12/hot-bot-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-1120 Mark Marino Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=298#comment-1120 These bots from "Barthes' Bachelorette" flip Turing's imitation game by reading the gender that users perform while chatting with them. (Here they partake in a common chatroom guessing game.) Judith Butler lends a theoretical hand along with a citation of citationality from Derrida. In other words, these bots don't try to pass the Turing Test, but subject all users to the game that is gender construction within the confines of a language exchange. Meanwhile, b.a.r.t., the third bachelor, chooses responses from citations of Roland Barthes' "A Lover's Discourse," so suited to these datable bots. Beneath all of these facades, or perhaps right on the surface, is a family drama, which may unfold as you chat. (I'll be presenting more on these at the Digital Narr@tives conference 4/23/04 at UCLA). These bots from “Barthes’ Bachelorette” flip Turing’s imitation game by reading the gender that users perform while chatting with them. (Here they partake in a common chatroom guessing game.) Judith Butler lends a theoretical hand along with a citation of citationality from Derrida. In other words, these bots don’t try to pass the Turing Test, but subject all users to the game that is gender construction within the confines of a language exchange.

Meanwhile, b.a.r.t., the third bachelor, chooses responses from citations of Roland Barthes’ “A Lover’s Discourse,” so suited to these datable bots.

Beneath all of these facades, or perhaps right on the surface, is a family drama, which may unfold as you chat. (I’ll be presenting more on these at the Digital Narr@tives conference 4/23/04 at UCLA).

]]> By: nick http://grandtextauto.org/2004/04/12/hot-bot-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-1121 nick Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=298#comment-1121 Mark, thanks for posting about the performance of gender, which you'd mentioned to me but which I couldn't really comment on, based on my brief encounter with the bots. (Sort of like speed dating, I guess...) I'm looking forward to hearing more about them at Narr@ative. Mark, thanks for posting about the performance of gender, which you’d mentioned to me but which I couldn’t really comment on, based on my brief encounter with the bots. (Sort of like speed dating, I guess…) I’m looking forward to hearing more about them at Narr@ative.

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