Talks

Talks & code critiques

2026

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

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

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

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

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