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Audience as co-writers: Using conversational AI to deliver audience agency in a participatory drama (2021)
Journal Article
Lander, R. (2021). Audience as co-writers: Using conversational AI to deliver audience agency in a participatory drama. International Journal of Creative Media Research, https://doi.org/10.33008/IJCMR.2021.37

Lander offers a glimpse of the elusive holy grail for participatory dramatists; a way to offer audience members a role within the narrative and to give them genuine agency over events and even the outcome. He describes the use of a “conversational a... Read More about Audience as co-writers: Using conversational AI to deliver audience agency in a participatory drama.

Questioning ‘what makes us human’: How audiences react to an artificial intelligence–driven show (2021)
Journal Article
Eagle, R., Lander, R., & Hall, P. D. (2021). Questioning ‘what makes us human’: How audiences react to an artificial intelligence–driven show. Cognitive Computation and Systems, 3(2), 91-99. https://doi.org/10.1049/ccs2.12018

I am Echoborg is promoted as ‘a show created afresh each time by the audience in conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI)’. The show demonstrates how AI in a creative and performance context can raise questions about the technology’s ethical... Read More about Questioning ‘what makes us human’: How audiences react to an artificial intelligence–driven show.

Experiments in Intimacy and Immersion (2015)
Journal Article
Lander, R. (2015). Experiments in Intimacy and Immersion. Journal of Sonic Studies,

In 2010 I was struck by the real-life drama of Julian Assange and the leaking of secret documents by WikiLeaks. This was a story that broke across multiple sources – newspapers, radio, TV, government briefings, and WikiLeaks counter briefings. Then t... Read More about Experiments in Intimacy and Immersion.