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Call for proposals for one-day symposium Language Game[s]

Updated: 02 February 2017

Call for proposals for Language Game[s], a one-day symposium that will look at the association between language and human consciousness, and how developments in technology might affect this relationship. At present, artificial language systems such as Siri and Amazon Echo mimic 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? What is language, when it is no longer made by humans, but by a machine? Language Game[s] is inviting proposals from artists, designers, philosophers, artificial intelligence (AI) experts, programmers of artificial language (AL) systems, linguists and scientists. The event takes place at Chelsea College of Arts on Friday 5 May 2017. Presentations should be no more than 20 minutes in duration.