Talks

Talks & code critiques

2026

Ciston, S. & Berry, D. M.“Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI”Book presentation and panel discussion, Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin · 3 September 2026
Berry, D. M.“Retro-duction AI: (re)reading, (re)constructing and (re)running AI”Keynote, Retro AI: Archaeologies of A.I. symposium, USC, USA · 31 July 2026
Shrager, J.“Reanimation(s) of The World’s First True AI(s): Newell, Simon, and Shaw’s Logic Theorist”Retro AI: Archaeologies of A.I. symposium, USC, USA · 31 July 2026
Weil, P.“Looking Back on MrMind”Retro AI: Archaeologies of A.I. symposium, USC, USA · 31 July 2026
Weil, P., Marino, M. C. & Schwarz, A. I.“Inventing ELIZA”Public conversation, moderated by Claire L. Evans, Wilshire Online, Los Angeles · 19 July 2026

The poster, set in the DOCTOR listing.

Claire L. Evans in conversation with Peggy Weil, who took the couch.

Mark C. Marino, Claire L. Evans, Peggy Weil and Arthur I. Schwarz.
Marino, M. C., Berry, D. M., Shrager, J., Schwarz, A. I., Weil, P., Ciston, S., Hay, A. C. & Millican, P.“Inventing ELIZA: an exploration of the first chatbot”Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) 2026, online · 17 July 2026
Berry, D. M.“From Script to Vector: ELIZA and the Age of AI”Roskilde University, Denmark · 29 April 2026
Ciston, S.“Don’t (?) Be Evil: Reckoning with the Risks of Technofascism from ELIZA to Anthropic (or: How I learned to worry just enough to keep loving what I code)”Envisioning AI: Legacy and Impact of the Connection Machine, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany · 27 March 2026
Berry, D. M.“From Script to Vector: ELIZA and the Age of AI”Aarhus University, Denmark · 20 March 2026
Berry, D. M.“Generative AI and Computational Capitalism: Towards a Critical Theory of Artificial Intelligence”University of Birmingham · 22 January 2026

2025

Berry, D. M.“Generative AI and Computational Capitalism: Towards a Critical Theory of Artificial Intelligence”Workshop on Critical Theory of the Computational, Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin · 16 October 2025
Berry, D. M.“Digital Kintsugi: The Art and Ethics of Reconstructing ELIZA’s Digital Ruins”ELO25 @ 25: Love Letters to the Past and Future, Electronic Literature Organization, York University, Toronto, Canada · 10–13 July 2025

2023

Berry, D. M.“Reading ELIZA: Understanding Weizenbaum through his code”Weizenbaum’s Worlds: Technological Change and Computer Criticism in the U.S. and Germany, ca. 1960–1990, Humboldt / Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin · 3 November 2023
Ciston, S., Berry, D. M., Hay, A. C., Marino, M. C., Millican, P., Schwarz, A. I., Shrager, J. & Weil, P.“Getting to know ELIZA: ChatGPT’s Great Grandmother”MIT · 11 October 2023

2022

Shrager, J., Berry, D. M., Marino, M. C. & Douglass, J.“The Original ELIZA in MAD-SLIP”Critical Code Studies Working Group, code critique

2016

Berry, D. M.“Archaeologies of Code: Reading ELIZA”Critical Code Studies Working Group, code critique