CFP: (dis)junctions: Chatbots, IF, Textual Exchange (grad) (1/7/05; 4/8/05-4/9/05)

CFP: (dis)junctions: Chatbots, IF, and Textual Exchange (grad) (1/7/05; 4/8/05-4/9/05)

(dis)junctions: theory reloaded (april 8-9, 2005)
Chatbots, IF, and Textual Exchange

This is a call for papers for a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions: theory reloaded at the University of California Riverside's 12th Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 8-9, 2005.

How does textual input change the reading experience?

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Textual input is central to many works of new media. Following the studies of N. Katherine Hayles in Writing Machines and others, we would like to interrogate the genres of new media that involve specific textual input from the user. How do these works transform the textual encounter? How do they position the user?

Contributors are invited to submit papers on any aspect of electronic literature that address works centered on textual exchange. Potential areas of analysis include (but are not limited to):

Chatbots (Chatterbots)

Interactive Fiction

Other Games with Language Parsers

This panel is extending the work of the global_interface workshop, an ongoing colloquium on digital arts and new media at UCR made possible by a Mellon grant. Throughout the year, global_interface promotes discussion of such international and interdisciplinary issues as video games, intelligent robotics, Afrofuturism, post-humanism, digital music, and online sexuality. For more information about the global_interface workshop at UCR, please visit our web site at <http://globalinterface.blogspot.com <https://aries2.lmu.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://globalinterface.blogspot.com> >

One page abstracts should be e-mailed to global_interface_at_hotmail.com by
January 7, 2005 (text in the body of the message; please no attachments). The submissions should be no longer than 250 words.

Proposals sent via snail mail should be sent to:
(dis)junctions UCR's Twelfth Annual Humanities Graduate Conference
Department of English
UC Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521-0323

For more information on the conference, please visit:
http://english.ucr.edu/gsea/disjunctions/ <https://aries2.lmu.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://webmail.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/fetch.cgi?url=http%253A%252F%252Fenglish.ucr.edu%252Fgsea%252Fdisjunctions%252F>

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