Documentation

Live Chatter is an interactive live text chat performed for "(re)Actor2: Bad Girls, Gadgets, and Guerilla Performance," a feminist digital live art conference.

• Transcript of Live Performance (HTML version of Skype Chat)


• Original Chatterbot Script:
  HTML (animated emoticons)
  Text File


• Paper Presentation delivered by the chatterbot following the performance, in which she opines on the relationships between Artificial Intelligence, feminism, and art. (HTML transcript of Messenger Chat)

Statement

In Live Chatter: Impersonal Impersonation of a Chatterbot Persona, I converse with conference attendees through a live remote text chat. A point of departure for this performance is the first chatterbot ELIZA who was programmed to "speak" in appropriate modalities such that, like her namesake the fair and eminently educable lady Eliza Doolittle, she could "pass" as a socially credible persona. Chatterbots mimic human conversation, but I attempt to reverse these roles by training myself to impersonate a chatterbot's persona. "Live Chatter" questions the tacit priority of persona over impersonality and intelligence over artificiality.

Related Links

• Conference Website


• ELIZA--A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man and Machine Joseph Weizenbaum, Communications of the ACM, Volume 9, Number 1 (January 1966).